Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 55
1 not sacrifice quality in order to achieve your budget
2 targets?
3 A. I do not agree with that. Basically, what you are
4 being told is, it is what I call the "umbrella" there.
5 I am being told to do one thing, but on paper someone is
6 covering themselves with another argument.
7
8 Q. Oh, so here Mr. Davis is being totally dishonest, in fact,
9 and he is just writing this down for his superiors to see;
10 is that right?
11 A. No, it is -- you are being asked to do one thing but
12 something else is being done at the same time.
13
14 Q. What does he mean by the word "or agreed by you", is that
15 just paper or does it mean something, so far as you are
16 aware?
17 A. That, I mean, I never had -- you would always be
18 arguing about trying to get your labour that little bit
19 higher, trying to get a little bit more leeway within
20 there. My return on being agreed would, basically: "This
21 is what you have to got to run at". That is the level of
22 my agreement.
23
24 Q. What, in fact, happens, Mr. Coton, is this, is it not,
25 when the Supervisor meets the Manager to set targets,
26 budget figures -- you know what a budget is, do you
27 not ---
28 A. I do, yes.
29
30 Q. It is not a fixed limit within which you must keep, is it?
31 A. No.
32
33 Q. The Manager sits down with his Supervisor and they discuss
34 the restaurant's recent performance, do they not?
35 A. Not on a -- the budgets are actually set, or they were
36 set, for the year, so we would get a whole year budget
37 actually delivered to you, and you would go through them
38 like that. It was not actually a case of each weak you
39 sat down and you reinstigated your budget settings. It
40 was actually set. At the beginning of the year you knew
41 what your budget would be.
42
43 Q. You knew what your budget would be -- on a weekly or
44 monthly basis?
45 A. Monthly basis.
46
47 Q. The budget varies according to which restaurant you are
48 at, does it not?
49 A. It would be seasonally adjusted, yes.
50
51 Q. It is based on past performance and expected performance
52 in the future, is it not?
53 A. Correct.
54
55 Q. That is all agreed between the Manager and his Area
56 Supervisor, is it not?
57 A. No. That is actually given to the Manager.
58
59 Q. What happens if you fail to meet your targets from time to
60 time, or what happened when you were Manager?
