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Bookmark or Share- Automat - WikipediaAutomat. The first automat, at 13 Leipziger Straße, Berlin, Germany; 1897 (Max Sielaff [1] [2]) A food ticket machine in Japan, 2022. An automat is a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895. [3] [4]
- A History Of The Automat, The 20th-Century Dining Fad Of The FutureAutomats were efficient vending machine-style restaurants that signaled to many Americans that the future in dining had arrived. So what happened to them? At the turn of the century, New Yorkers rushed to a new kind of dining establishment, one they felt represented all the sleekness and efficiency of a future in chrome: the Automat.
- The Automat: Birth of a Fast Food Nation | HISTORYStories. The Automat: Birth of a Fast Food Nation. Over a century after Horn & Hardart opened its first Automat in New York City, take a look back at America’s first fast food chain. By:...
- The Rise and Fall of the Automat - ThoughtCoAn Appealing Formula . As with so many other societal trends, it was in turn-of-the-century New York that automats really took off. The first New York Horn & Hardart location opened in 1912, and soon the chain had hit on an appealing formula: customers exchanged dollar bills for handfuls of nickels (from female cashiers behind glass booths, wearing rubber tips on their fingers), then fed their ...
- Horn & Hardart Automats: Redefining lunchtime, dining on a dimeJanuary 4, 2016. Automat by Berenice Abbott, 1936. In the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s Automats were a New York City dining staple for a hard-working lunch crowd, a modernist icon for a boundless...
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