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     1        that job.
     2
     3   Q.   Who is responsible for maintenance in the Kings Road
     4        McDonald's?
     5        A.  Can you be specific on the type of maintenance that you
     6        are -----
     7
     8   Q.   This seems to indicate that there is a person with
     9        responsibility -----
    10
    11   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "Maintenance person" there clearly does not
    12        mean -- I have to say what it means to me in this country
    13        so maybe you had better be more specific.  Obviously,
    14        I would have thought a maintenance person in this country
    15        might be someone who does minor repair work.  It may again
    16        be a difference in the use of language.
    17
    18        Why do you not ask him if there is anyone who is
    19        specifically responsible for small repair jobs or anyone
    20        who is specifically responsible for cleanliness?  If it
    21        really matters, because you are really on about the
    22        effectiveness of the environment/index.html">litter patrols.  As I understand it,
    23        you say, for better or worse, McDonald's ought to be using
    24        reusables, not disposables all the time.  Disposables, as
    25        I have said in the ruling I made this morning, whether
    26        eat-in or eat-out, you say lend themselves to environment/index.html">litter, and
    27        there is a problem from environment/index.html">litter related to McDonald's and
    28        for good measure you say the environment/index.html">litter patrols are not
    29        effectively carried out.
    30
    31        You have, in effect, put the part of that which you can put
    32        to Mr. Stump because he is not responsible for McDonald's
    33        deciding to use disposables rather than reusables.  It is
    34        your case, and by all means put the essence of it to
    35        Mr. Siddique in so far as you feel the questions are
    36        helpful, but what I might suggest is you want to be
    37        pressing on to getting a good reliable witness in the
    38        witness box who can tell me what a lousy situation it was
    39        in Chelsea.
    40
    41   MS. STEEL:   I am virtually done although Dave has some
    42        questions to ask.  (To the witness):  The position as set
    43        out on this page, is there a comparable position in this
    44        country or is this just an American thing?
    45        A.  There is a -- we can hire someone who would be termed
    46        as a maintenance person, but it is up to the individual
    47        restaurant managers on the jobs that he completes.  All his
    48        responsibilities have to be completed by a restaurant
    49        manager and whether he delegates them to other managers, to
    50        other members of the staff, or to a maintenance person 
    51        would be discretionary to him as long as they were 
    52        completed to the McDonald's standards. 
    53
    54   Q.   So there was no-one with responsibility solely for
    55        maintenance and cleaning?
    56        A.  Yes, the manager.
    57
    58   Q.   The manager has other responsibilities as well?
    59        A.  But he is in overall responsibility so he delegates all
    60        these areas out.  If he chooses to hire a maintenance man,

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