Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 16

     
     1        A.  Once again, it is my experience that obviously the
     2        restaurant is open and trading and there are people there.
     3        So there is no formula to suggest how many people should
     4        come in there.
     5
     6   Q.   I thought you were trying to explain a formula when you
     7        started.
     8        A.  Sorry, no.
     9
    10   Q.   As a result of my questions we may well have wasted the
    11        last 10 minutes.  You carry on with your cross-examination.
    12
    13   MS. STEEL:  The 100 people on the payroll, that was in an
    14        average period; you were not talking about Christmas or
    15        whatever when you were saying there were 100 people on the
    16        payroll?
    17        A.  It is about average, certainly, yes.
    18
    19   Q.   So that would be for most of the year you had a payroll of
    20        100 people?
         A.  Yes.
    22
    23   Q.   Then at specific times of the year you took on extra staff
    24        for Christmas, or whatever?
    25        A.  Yes.  Although, as I mentioned beforehand, some people
    26        who were only available on the Saturday and Sunday during
    27        term time would be available during holiday, so the actual
    28        numbers may not rise significantly.  But, yes, I think,
    29        from my recollection, I probably would have to take on some
    30        students, I think it was, during summer time -- during,
    31        excuse me, Christmas.
    32
    33   Q.   OK.  You say you have to have 26 full-time people?
    34        A.  This was suggested to me that, yes, 26 would be a fair
    35        number.
    36
    37   Q.   If they work 39 hours a week?
    38        A.  Right.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you taken off the two for holidays or
         not?
    42
    43   MS. STEEL:   He said that was how many people he needed to work
    44        that week.
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is that what you are saying, all you need is
    47        26 on the payroll, full-timers?
    48        A.  We would need 26 people in order to cover these shifts.
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:  Right.  You have 26 people working 39 hours a week, 
    51        that is 1,014 hours? 
    52        A.  I have to stand by your calculations -- I have nothing 
    53        up here.
    54
    55   Q.   The total number of hours, according to what you have said
    56        today and the other day, is 1,189 hours; so that would only
    57        leave 175 hours to be shared out between the part-timers?
    58        A.  Sorry, 26 x 30, right, OK, but let me help you a little
    59        bit.  When I took this away last night, one of the ways
    60        I would look in terms of to see whether or not I was