Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 32
1 ask for three or four, maybe five, volunteers; nobody is
2 expected to do it. There is no sort of pressure put on
3 anybody to do it. It would not make any sense. It is more
4 unproductive to do it that way. Nobody is expected.
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6 Q. If it were to be said to you that crew members, whether
7 they had to or they did not have to, but were working
8 frequently (whatever that means) but not once in a
9 blue -- once in a while, but frequently an all night close,
10 then what would you say to that? By that, I mean from your
11 general experience and as applied to Colchester in the
12 mid-1980s?
13 A. Well, I would say in specific answer to the likes of my
14 own Restaurant Manager in Colchester, it did not happen.
15 So the question of what would happen if they had to do it
16 frequently is somewhat hypothetical.
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18 Q. You say it did not happen?
19 A. It did not happen. If they were doing all night closes
20 every night, then I would have a very tired and exhausted
21 workforce or five or six individuals if they were doing it
22 all the time on top of everything else.
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24 Q. From your own experience, was Colchester exceptional in not
25 having very frequent all night closes?
26 A. No.
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28 Q. Or was it general?
29 A. No, it was a general thing; once every quarter, maybe.
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31 Q. Would you get any notice given to you? Say you, as Area
32 Supervisor at Colchester in the mid-1980s, would you get
33 notice -- I mean, let us start at the beginning. Did
34 senior management visit, i.e. people above you?
35 A. Right.
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37 Q. Did they visit the Colchester store in the mid-1980s?
38 A. Yes.
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40 Q. When you were there?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. Who would be coming? Can you remember people, not in terms
44 of their names but in terms of their position?
45 A. My Senior Supervisor would visit the restaurant; his
46 boss, the Operations Manager, and we would get visits and
47 I am pretty sure we had visits from all the hierarchy up to
48 Regional Manager.
49
50 Q. Operations Manager would turn up, would he?
51 A. Yes.
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53 Q. Would he turn up lots of times or regularly?
54 A. No. I mean, again, given the sort of number of
55 restaurants that an Operations Manager is responsible for
56 (maybe 40 restaurants), then even working four days, or
57 whatever, a week in a store it is going to be a matter of
58 ten or eleven weeks, probably, if they visited it on that
59 frequent a basis.
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