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                                                                  DAY 213
 
                                        STEPHEN PLAISTER, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1   Q.   That is the only time you have ever seen 10 in the kitchen?
     2        A.  Yes.
     3
     4   Q.   What is the maximum you have seen apart from when you were
     5        training up the Feltham crew?
     6        A.  Seven to eight.
     7
     8   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Sorry?
     9        A.  Seven to eight people.
    10
    11   Q.   In the kitchen?
    12        A.  Yes, maximum.
    13
    14   MS. STEEL:   What is the lowest number of people you have seen
    15        working in the kitchen when the store has been open?
    16        A.  When it has been open?
    17
    18   Q.   Yes.
    19        A.  Probably about three.
    20
    21   Q.   How often was that?
    22        A.  Well, that would be 6 o'clock in the morning when we
    23        were just about to open, so it would be every day.
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    25   Q.   But what about when the store is actually open and
    26        customers are coming in?
    27        A.  It depends what time.  You see, you get people -----
    28
    29   Q.   I am just asking you what is the lowest number of people in
    30        the kitchen at a time when the store is open?
    31        A.  When the store is open?
    32
    33   Q.   Yes.
    34        A.  Three.
    35
    36   Q.   Three, right.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  My screen has gone for the moment.  You said
    39        in answer to Ms. Steel that the maximum you had seen in the
    40        kitchen was seven to eight at Feltham when there were
    41        trainees  -----
    42        A.  When the crew from Feltham were in our store to be
    43        trained up.
    44
    45   Q.   Right.  But I have a note there were 10 in the kitchen when
    46        training up the Feltham crew.
    47
    48   MS. STEEL:   No, the note I have got:  "There were 10 in the
    49        kitchen when they were training up the people from Feltham
    50        and that seven to eight was the maximum when" ----- 
    51        A.  When there was not anyone being trained from Feltham. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I see.  Let me just correct my note.  Yes,
    54        thank you.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  Do you want to sort your screen out?
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It went at about 11.00 this morning, but it
    59        will probably be put right during the mid-day break and I
    60        am content with my own note until then.  What I do not have
 
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