Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 39


     
     1        part of the visits that the Senior Supervisor would make
     2        would also encompass, probably not in as much detail but
     3        certainly in terms of visiting the restaurant, to look at
     4        some of that paper work and administrative side of the
     5        business.  So they would also be looking at it, but they
     6        perhaps would not go into individual files as I would do,
     7        being the Supervisor.  They would look at an overall
     8        picture of, for example, the payroll, the quality of the
     9        work done on it and so on and so forth.
    10
    11   Q.   Just on a slightly different subject but it is related:
    12        Were there any arrangements at Colchester for transport
    13        late at night for people under 18, or whatever?
    14        A.  A taxi service.
    15
    16   Q.   To get home?
    17        A.  Yes.  We had a taxi.  We use a taxi firm who would be
    18        used, basically, to take people home who had just finished
    19        the close.
    20
    21   Q.   Obviously, the taxi has to be paid.  Was there some
    22        specific area of the budget that that came from?
    23        A.  Generally that would be paid out of petty cash.
    24
    25   Q.   Petty cash?
    26        A.  So one of my responsibilities, probably I think it was
    27        on a monthly basis, would be to -- the Store Manager would
    28        prepare the petty cash claim form, but then I would have to
    29        check it to make sure that invoices and everything else all
    30        added -- they were sort of VAT registered and so on and so
    31        forth -- before I signed them and approved them for moneys
    32        to be taken out to compensate the petty cash fund.
    33
    34   Q.   I know that Barlows, for example, have a taxi account that
    35        is used a fair amount of the time.  Is something that
    36        McDonald's would have?  Would they have an account?
    37        A.  I think now we have accounts so that we can handle it
    38        centrally.  But, when I was a Supervisor in Colchester, we
    39        paid it out of petty cash.  The taxi firm would, I think,
    40        submit an invoice to us on a weekly basis.
    41
    42   Q.   Were you ever worried about the cost of paying the taxi?
    43        A.  No, not so much the cost, but the system we had was
    44        that we would try and ensure that the people on the close
    45        lived roughly in the same part of town so that the taxi
    46        could, basically, make one trip or, no, I would not need
    47        two taxis going on different sides of the town; they could
    48        do it on a one run route.
    49
    50   Q.   Did you have any practical way of keeping an eye on what 
    51        was going on with the taxis? 
    52        A.  Again, because I would have to scrutinize the petty 
    53        cash claim and ultimately approve it, then I would soon
    54        know if we were having too many taxis.  But I was looking
    55        for at least one taxi a night; that is the sort of
    56        minimum.  I can understand that times of scheduling would
    57        be such that they may require two and, perhaps, even three
    58        taxis, but the idea was to try and make efficient use of
    59        it.
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