Some might remember the old Horn & Hardart Automat restaurants, where you'd put your nickels in ... Now the Automats are pretty much a thing of the past, but forum member phillyaggie at Philadelphia ...

It seemed like magic: A restaurant without waiters ... Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart opened their first Automat in Philadelphia in 1902, soon expanding to New York. At their peak, there were ...

his love for the Automat. What more do you want from a documentary? The first Horn & Hardart restaurant opened in Philadelphia in 1888. Founders Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart got started with a ...

Specifically, the Horn & Hardart Automat restaurants found in Philadelphia and New York City, from their beginnings in 1888 right down to the closing of their last location in 1991. At the height ...

For some audiences, the title of “The Automat” will tell them nearly ... and Frank Hardart introduced a new concept in Philadelphia: a restaurant in which customers could feast their eyes ...

1902: Joe Horn and Frank Hardart open the Automat at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia ... which already sported a successful "waiterless restaurant." The company branched out to New York's ...

the Automat – self-service restaurants operated by Horn & Hardart, in which food items were sold from coin-operated dispensers – offered customers in New York and Philadelphia a cheap and easy ...

Even though nation’s first automat restaurant made its debut in Philadelphia way back in 1902, 115 years later, the concept still feels like something straight out of the Star Trek commissary.

Granted, this is a movie with a very New York subject — the fabled Automat restaurants that were owned and operated by Horn & Hardart in exactly two cities, New York and Philadelphia.

The first location will likely open in Philadelphia ... tech-obsessed people who keep trying to create the restaurant of the future. “The Automat was so much more than the machines themselves ...

Most folks who watch The Automat have most likely never used an Automat, or even been to the restaurant chain Horn ... areas like New York and Philadelphia in the early 1900s, and does so ...