"So we're keeping true to the original automat tradition. We've just updated this delivery system." The last automat disappeared around 1991 — but the return 30 years later could not have been ...

Automat Kitchen’s original opening date was postponed from April 2020 because of the pandemic, and many office workers in the building where it is located still have not returned. In March ...

They plan to open others. "This is an explicit acknowledgement of the original automat," said Scutellaro, who conceived the restaurant with his 60-year-old father Joe. He, too, remembers the old ...

What's more, unlike the original automat, the eats will be made to order, not sitting in a cubby for who knows how long. "Dining preferences have changed so much, Scutellaro said.

Apart from the tellingly-named ghost kitchens, fast-food companies, the successors of the original Automat, seem eager to find out. In December 2022, McDonald's launched their first largely ...

The cast of luminaries that first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz assembles in documentary The Automat have one thing in common – extreme adoration for the famed Horn & Hardart eateries, whose ...