no. b-000119-c melinda matthews, individually ) in the district court ...

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1 It states: The non-core operations of the business, in
2 which category I would put safety and security, are in
3 the franchisee's domain and not the franchisor's, right?
4 A That's what it says.
5 Q Okay. You put safety and security into the
6 noncore category. How did you do that? Is that just
7 your opinion?
8 A Yes.
9 Q And I would kind of like to know how you
10 formed that opinion. How does the typical franchise
11 expert go about categorizing certain actions as core or
12 noncore?
13 A They might do it a number of ways. They might
14 make a list of things that say when is this franchise
15 not - not - let's say -- Let's pick Franchise X. When
16 is this not - not this franchise anymore - if it
17 eliminates doing what?
18 An example is food safety, okay? What
19 you do with food safety is the franchisor says that
20 whatever the standards and the regulations are of the
21 local authorities with food safety, the franchisee has
22 to follow that, okay? That's a good example of safety
23 is not a core.
24 Q And what is important to me is not as much
25 whether food safety is or is not a core, but how you