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     1        A.  Yes, the information department.
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     3   Q.   Who is that, another witness?
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     5   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the witness is Mr. Mead in this country.
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     7   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Say anything you know about it.
     8        A.  I do not know any of the technicalities, I just take
     9        the figures as they are produced to me.
    10
    11   MS. STEEL:  So do you know how the crew turnover is calculated
    12        or not?
    13        A.  Not really.  I mean, it comes off the computer.  I take
    14        the figures as they come off the computer.
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    16   MR. MORRIS:  The thing is, what does 115 per cent mean?  What
    17        does it mean, in reality, when you say 115 per cent?
    18        A.  It means there has been a 115 turnover in crew for that
    19        year.
    20
    Q.   Yes, but I mean you have said yourself a lot of people only
    22        work at McDonald's for a few weeks or in between times ---
    23        A.  Yes.
    24
    25   Q.   -- you say, or your company says.  So does that mean that
    26        some people are staying 15 years and 10 times as many
    27        people are staying five or six weeks, and that is averaged
    28        out as 115 per cent?  Do you how it is calculated?
    29        A.  No, I just take the figures as they are produced to
    30        me.  Lyn Mead would be able to tell you how the calculation
    31        is done.  She gets involved in it, but I just take the
    32        figure as it is presented to me.
    33
    34   Q.   So you cannot give any evidence as to what it means to say
    35        115 per cent?
    36        A.  Other than it indicates to me that our turnover for the
    37        year was 115 per cent at the end of the year.
    38
    39   Q.   Because that is what you have been told?
    40        A.  Because that is what I have been told.
    41
    42   Q.   In December 1989 it was 191 per cent, is that correct?
    43        A.  I am not sure.  I cannot remember.  As I said,
    44        I thought the highest figure was 182, but it may be 191.
    45        I just simply cannot remember.
    46
    47   Q.   Can you just look at tab 40 in pink volume XII, please?
    48        A.  Yes.
    49
    50   Q.   Page 699? 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   These are McDonald's figures and it says:  "Country:  UK";
    54        is that correct?
    55        A.  Yes.
    56
    57   Q.   For December 1989, which would be a relevant time for this
    58        case ---
    59        A.  Yes.
    60