HY. FORD, MEAT SALESMAN

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1689, 21 November 1925, Page 2

HY. FORD, MEAT SALESMAN

A QUICK-SERVICE CASH SYSTEM. Motor cars and tractors are not the only articles handled at the big Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, Mich. In one room on the ground .floor of the factory building 600,0001 b. of meat are handled each month on a market maintained especially for the convenience of employees of the company. Like everything else that Mr Ford has undertaken his meat market has been a tremendous success. Since it was established it has been necessary to double the floor space which it occupies. At present this floor space is 40ft. by 80ft. of which 30ft. by 60ft. is occupied by refrigerators.

{There is no sign on the door or win-dows--nothing to indicate that this is a meat market—no advertising to attract trade; nevertheless 5000 persons find their way to this market every Saturday. It is conducted on the cafeteria, or self-serve plan. As the customer enters the room he is handed a ticket reading' "RUSH! Pay as you exit." A clerk wraps the customer's packages and marks on the ticket the amount of his purchase. The customer pays the cashier, who stamps the ticket "Paid." All transactions are in cash. At the exit the ticket is surrendered to the doorman after he has inspected it and found that it is stamped "Paid."

There are from ten to twenty clerks on duty in the market. They keep a supply of different cuts of meat on the counters in front of them, from which the customers make their selections. Meat-cutters at work in the refrigerators keep this supply of cuts -replenished.