Day 121 - 04 May 95 - Page 04
1 manager responsible for approximately 20 restaurants in the
2 south-western Thames Valley area"?
3 A. Then I probably know him. I cannot bring his face to
4 mind at the present moment.
5
6 Q. Is that part of your area, south-western Thames area,
7 sorry, when you were Head of Personnel?
8 A. I had the whole of the country.
9
10 Q. Sorry, I have got confused. You were at one stage
11 responsible, particularly responsible, for London and the
12 south?
13 A. No, I have always had a national responsibility.
14
15 Q. OK. If you just bear with me because someone who has
16 achieved the position of Operations Manager, that is an
17 area of very high responsibility, is it?
18 A. Yes, I do not know how many restaurants he is
19 responsible for, but it is going to be -----
20
21 Q. He said 20?
22 A. As I say, it is going to be a good number, between 20
23 to 30, yes.
24
25 Q. He talks on page 210, that is -- let us look at the
26 internal numbers -- page 2 of the statement?
27 A. Yes.
28
29 Q. Under his review of our witness Adrien Brett's statement,
30 point 6, he admits in the second sentence that occasionally
31 employees were asked to work through the night. "I would
32 stress, however, this would be exceptional and occur
33 perhaps once every two months. For example, when
34 I considered the store required a spring clean or when a
35 senior member of a management would be visiting the store,
36 employees would be asked to work through the night". Why
37 would employees be asked to work through the night,
38 especially when a senior member of management would be
39 visiting, in your experience in the Company as a whole?
40 A. I did not know they would be.
41
42 Q. Let us take this as an example, this is a fact admitted
43 by -----
44 A. Then I think it is a question that should be directed
45 to him if he has made a statement.
46
47 Q. Yes, but I am asking you.
48 A. Well, I do not know.
49
50 Q. As a senior member of management, are you aware that when
51 you make a visit, certainly in this case, all the stops
52 seem to be being pulled out to sanitise the situation?
53 A. Well, I do not know. That is the question, but I would
54 imagine he just wants to get his store in good order
55 because he is going to be visited and inspected, and that
56 would obviously be an announced visit, if he knew the
57 Senior Manager was coming.
58
59 Q. If we turn over to page 3, the middle of that first
60 paragraph?
