Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 74


     
     1   Q.   If you look at that schedule would you accept that as
     2        correct?
     3        A.  It might have been one Friday or one Saturday turned
     4        out as those sort of hours being allotted, yes.  It
     5        certainly was not, you know, that is not a replica of what
     6        happened every week.
     7
     8   Q.   Obviously, you said it is busier during the summer and
     9        whatever, but during an average week would that be fairly
    10        typical?
    11        A.  It may have been typical although, obviously, that is
    12        only two days in the week.
    13
    14   Q.   Yes, for a Friday and a Saturday, would that be fairly
    15        typical?
    16        A.  Possibly, yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Then after whichever Manager it is draws up a schedule such
    19        as this, do they then draw up the schedule where they
    20        actually write down which hours the individual crew are
    21        going to work?
    22        A.  That is right, yes.
    23
    24   Q.   This one is the one that is drawn first?
    25        A.  Yes.  This is matrix 1.  However, also incorporated in
    26        that was a projection of sales we would expect to do on
    27        each individual hour.  So there was a left-hand column with
    28        the sales and a right-hand column with the number of people
    29        we would want on any specific hour.
    30
    31   Q.   Right.  That would be in order to work out the labour rate
    32        as a percentage of the turnover?
    33        A.  Nothing to do with turnover.
    34
    35   Q.   Sorry, the sales turnover, I mean, not turnover of
    36        employees?
    37        A.  There is more to gauge, make sure that we had the right
    38        amount of people on at the right time.  So, if we had a
    39        œ500 hour specifically projected, then we would want a
    40        certain amount of people on for that œ500 hour.
    41
    42   Q.   Was there a rate that you aimed at?
    43        A.  A rate for what, sorry?
    44
    45   Q.   For the certain amount of people if you had 500 sales?
    46        A.  It was to need, so, for instance, if it was a œ500
    47        hour, we would look to determine how many tills we needed
    48        for that hour, whether we needed a second fry station, how
    49        many people we would need in a grill team and then work it
    50        out from that, and say: "For that œ500 hour you may need 
    51        three or four people in the dining area", and then you 
    52        would get a total and that would be the figure you put in 
    53        next to the projected hours.
    54
    55   Q.   Do you see what Mr. Gidney has written underneath the
    56        chart?
    57        A.  Yes, I see it.
    58
    59   Q.   If you read down to:  "This labour rate was the key"?
    60        A.  Yes.

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