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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  Sometimes -- it was -----
     2
     3   Q.   Or else to the back room?
     4        A.  When I was there, they were not using the computer
     5        properly, the ISP, whereas I was quite well acquainted with
     6        it.  What I preferred the Managers to do, and which they
     7        did most of the time, was that they would just take the
     8        bins round to the office, and, rather than write it all
     9        down -- which is what they were doing originally -- we
    10        could just enter it straight on to the computer.  But at
    11        the time I took over, yes, it was either back room or the
    12        one next to production.
    13
    14   Q.   The ISP is?
    15        A.  Instore processor, instore computer.
    16
    17   MS. STEEL:   If I could have five minutes?  I think we have
    18        finished, but I wanted to check.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    21
    22                          (Short Adjournment)
    23
    24   MS. STEEL:   You said that you know that it did not happen that
    25        crew were ever told to go on a break or go home.  You
    26        cannot possibly know what is going on all the time in your
    27        store, can you?
    28        A.  No.
    29
    30   Q.   So it could have happened, you would accept?
    31        A.  If I am not there, if I did not hear it, yes.
    32
    33   Q.   You also say that if the restaurant was busy, then it would
    34        normally be only five people working in the kitchen.  So
    35        you are saying that the maximum number of people that
    36        worked in the kitchen was five; yes?
    37        A.  Unless you had trainees.
    38
    39   Q.   Unless you had trainees?
    40        A.  Yes.  The highest hour we would do -- although the
    41        restaurant was very busy, it was spread throughout the
    42        week, throughout the day.  It was not, for example, like
    43        Marble Arch or somewhere where you would have an incredibly
    44        busy hour, where they would need a lot more people in the
    45        kitchen.  Ours was fairly consistent.  You did not really
    46        need that many people in the kitchen.
    47
    48   Q.   The maximum would be five, unless there were trainees?
    49        A.  Yes, that is correct.  If you had somebody who needed
    50        to learn, then obviously you would put them in ----- 
    51 
    52   Q.   With a "buddy"? 
    53        A.  With a "buddy", or if they had already had that, if
    54        they just needed experience, they would just be put in
    55        there as an extra person.
    56
    57   Q.   So that would be five in the kitchens between 12 and 2,
    58        which was the lunch hour.  I know you are saying it is not
    59        massively busy at other times, but that -----
    60        A.  Yes.
 
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