Automat - Wikipedia 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]
The Return Of Automat Restaurants In The Unites States An automat and a vending machine may seem similar, but they have distinct differences An automat is a type of restaurant where customers can select a variety of meals from behind glass windows after inserting coins or tokens
A Dining Experience to Remember: A Brief History of the Automat The Automat was a place where you could eat pie for breakfast if you wanted to, and in 1964, Horn and Hardart sold an average of 822 pieces of pie across their New York locations each day between the hours of 8 and 11 am
What is an Automat? (with pictures) - Delighted Cooking An automat usually featured a kitchen behind the row, which kept up on supply First popular in Europe, automats came to the US in 1902, with the first opening in Philadelphia
The Rise and Fall of the Automat - ThoughtCo Named Quisisana—after a company that also manufactured food-vending machinery—this high-tech eatery established itself in other northern European cities, and Quisisana soon licensed its technology to Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart, who opened the first American automat in Philadelphia in 1902
Automats – Restaurant-ing through history Automat is a word still in use in Germany, meaning a vending machine And if you think about it, weren’t the old H H automats simply large vending machines with people working inside of them?