Day 161 - 24 Jul 95 - Page 05
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2 Q. Full-time during the holidays?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. Was this in order to support yourself while you were a
6 student?
7 A. That is correct.
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9 Q. How long were you Manager at the Strand?
10 A. Two years.
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12 Q. So you left in 1988?
13 A. Yes -- end of 1988.
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15 Q. What did you become then?
16 A. An area supervisor.
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18 MS. STEEL: I cannot keep up with this.
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20 MR. RAMPTON: An area supervisor. What restaurant did you
21 supervise when you became an area supervisor?
22 A. Strand, Regent Street, Haymarket, Leicester -----
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24 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which was the second one?
25 A. Regent Street.
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27 Q. Yes?
28 A. Haymarket, Leicester Square, Houndsditch, Kings Road,
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Did you supervise all those at the same time, or
31 were there different times when you had different
32 restaurants?
33 A. At different times.
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35 Q. How long did you remain an area supervisor?
36 A. Four years.
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38 Q. So you became a franchisee in what year?
39 A. 1993.
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41 Q. 1993. Why, Miss Anteneh, did you choose to leave the
42 promotional operations ladder within McDonald's and take
43 the franchisee?
44 A. I enjoyed being a Store Manager very much, which is
45 running the restaurant and running the business. When
46 I became a supervisor, that was also as good, but I did
47 like much more being a restaurant Manager, which is an
48 attractive; and running a business is a most important
49 thing to me.
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51 Q. Do you have one restaurant at the moment?
52 A. Yes.
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54 Q. Do you have an ambition to acquire more than one
55 restaurant, if you can?
56 A. Of course.
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58 Q. When you were restaurant Manager at the Strand in 1987,
59 roughly how many hours a week were you working?
60 A. 45 to 50 hours.
