OHIO 1930, The Mototeria Company Stock Certificate, Mobile Meat Wagon

Description

The certificate is dated December 3
, 1930
. The compan
y was incorporated in Ohio.
The certificate is slightly larger than my scanner.
According to the olsandsold website,
From the standpoint of service to the buying public, it is, of course, highly desirable to buy meats right at the front door. In that case, there would be no need to go shopping or to send the children for meat. While the methods employed by the meat peddler have certain objectionable features, another method of food distribution has sprung up in the so-called "Mototeria System" which operates in Cleveland, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich. The mototeria system operates a fleet of motor trucks which are really grocery and meat stores on wheels.
In the front of the mototeria is a double section refrigerator. The top of this refrigerator serves as a counter. In the refrigerator are contained the eggs, meats, butter, cheese, etc. All meats are cut to order at the central plant. The customer gives her order to the operator of the mototeria the day before, It is dropped in an order basket located on the entrance to the mototeria. On the next day, the customer receives the package of meat, which has been cut during the night and placed in the refrigerator of the mototeria, ready for delivery the next morning.
There is no question but that this system effects a saving in over-head expense as there is only one central meat cutting establishment and one electric meat cutter can cut up meat in sufficient quantities to supply an entire fleet of mototerias. The operators claim that this operation alone saves the cost of the equipment for eleven meat markets, and the wages for that many clerks is also saved.
According to the statement of an official of the Mototeria Company, the average weekly business of the chain store is from 0 to 0, while the mototeria brings in an average of ,000 per week. In addition there is no rent to pay, clerk hire is reduced to one man and turn-over is naturally increased. Another great advantage is the fact that unlike the average meat market, the mototeria does not have peak hours. Another advantage claimed by the mototeria is the fact that it is able to go into restricted areas in every community which are closed against stores of every kind.
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