Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 20

     
     1   Q.   What if you discovered you may not be £150 out in terms of
     2        you realise where it is going and there is lots going into
     3        the bin for one reason or another, because it has been held
     4        for too long or something like that?
     5        A.  Yes.  That would not necessarily come within the £150
     6        variance.  That would come under the waste total.  You
     7        would not want your waste to be, sort of, 4 or £500 or more
     8        a week.
     9
    10   Q.   Yes.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   The waste was included in the -----
    13        A.  The overall, yes, so that would not be included in the
    14        statistical variance at the end of the week.
    15
    16   Q.   No, you have taken that into account before you get to any
    17        variance?
    18        A.  That is right.
    19
    20   MS. STEEL:  Yes, that is what I am saying.  The point is,
         whether or not there was this variance, you also would not
    22        want too much of the produce which was coming into the
    23        store to be made and sold going to waste, would you?
    24        A.  We would not want too much and, similarly, you would
    25        not want too little either.
    26
    27   Q.   So there was some kind of a target set for the amount of
    28        waste?
    29        A.  There was.
    30
    31   Q.   Or the amount of a particular product that went to waste?
    32        A.  It was done -- I think .5 to .8 per cent of net sales
    33        as a sort of range in which the waste target was set.
    34
    35   Q.   That was for each product?
    36        A.  No, that was -- that was for the total product range.
    37
    38   Q.   Right.  So, it was across the board, so one product might
    39        have been 14 per cent and another might have been only two
    40        per cent or something like that?
         A.  Of the waste itself, yes.
    42
    43   Q.   Right.  Sorry, I misheard what you said about it being .5.
    44        The question I was asking was in terms of  -----
    45
    46   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is what you meant to ask that, for instance,
    47        waste on one item might be .2 per cent and on another item
    48        1.5 per cent?
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:  Of that individual product, yes.  (To the witness): 
    51        If it is across the board, it might be that you are wasting 
    52        one per cent of one item of burgers or something, but only 
    53        0.02 per cent of fries?
    54        A.  Yes, it would vary between the individual products,
    55        yes.
    56
    57   Q.   Right.  If you were finding either that too much was being
    58        wasted through being thrown away or was in excess of the
    59        £150 variance, you would want to do something to improve
    60        the yield performance?