Day 074 - 16 Jan 95 - Page 03
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2 Q. Before that were you the manager of the restaurant in Kings
3 Road, Chelsea?
4 A. Yes, sir, I was.
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6 Q. For I think about two years from April 1991 until May 1993?
7 A. Yes, sir.
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9 Q. Before that had you had any experience as a manager of a
10 McDonald's restaurant?
11 A. Yes, sir. Before that on 22nd November in 1990 I took
12 over High Street, Kensington, as a restaurant manager, and
13 before that I was in a warm-up period in Oxford Street, 185
14 Oxford Street, as a trainee store manager, and while I was
15 crew member and floor manager I had over six, seven years
16 of experience before I joined McDonald's Information
17 Services.
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19 Q. I am going to come in a moment to the detail of your
20 recollection about your time as manager of the Kings Road
21 restaurant, but before that I want to ask you something
22 about your experience as a licensee at Barnet?
23 A. Yes, sir.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Licensee and franchisee are the same, are
26 they?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, yes. McDonald's call them "licensees", I
29 think that is right, but it is a franchise, is it not?
30 A. Yes, it is a franchise.
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32 Q. Do you as franchisee or licensee run the restaurant
33 yourself or do you have a manager?
34 A. You can do it both ways.
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36 Q. What do you do?
37 A. I run it both ways. When I started off I ran as a
38 restaurant manager because my management team was not that
39 experienced apart from a couple of managers. Then
40 I develop one of my managers to be the restaurant manager
41 and, basically, I do participate in the running of the
42 restaurant but my restaurant manager, he runs it.
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44 Q. What is the annual turnover in money, annual turnover, of
45 the Barnet restaurant?
46 A. Yes, for up to December last year, 31st December, it
47 was £907,000, I believe, 200 something odd.
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49 Q. In case we should be ignorant, what sort of an area in
50 terms of prosperity is Barnet?
51 A. Barnet is, if you go towards Hadley or Hadley Road, it
52 is very posh and very expensive houses there. Otherwise,
53 if you -- it is a mixture of high class, if that is a
54 class, lower middle class, middle class. There are lots
55 and lots of educated people who live in Barnet. So, it is
56 a very good mixture of all types of people who live there,
57 but the majority of it is, I think it is the same as Kings
58 Road, Chelsea.
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60 Q. I was going to ask you, a turnover of something over
