Automats are like vending machines where you insert coins or swipe a card to get hot food. They boomed in the US in the middle of the last century but have now disappeared. They are thriving in the ...

A woman in a coat selects food from a self-serve automat, opening a small glass door labeled "Sandwiches" to retrieve a plate, with more food compartments visible along the wall. The scene is black ...

“Automats were right up there with the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden,” Kent L. Barwick, former president of the Municipal Art Society, lamented to the New York Times in 1991 when the ...

For introverts since the dawn of time, eating out has presented a set of problems — mainly, having to interact with other humans in order to get your hands on a simple turkey sandwich. For a brief ...

It was once the world’s largest restaurant chain, serving 800,000 people a day. It was Horn & Hardart, and its cavernous, waiterless establishments represented a combination of fast-food, vending and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A style of dining that gained popularity in the Great Depression is reemerging: automats, which feature food vending machines that ...

Some restaurateurs in the New York City metropolitan area are looking to the past to figure out the future of dining during the coronavirus pandemic. The automat, a concept developed more than a ...

One NYC restaurateur is looking to bring automats — where customers can order and get food without interacting with anyone — back into fashion with a new dumpling shop that’s set to debut in the East ...

While running errands in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood recently, I spotted a wee café on Bay Street. Burnished wood and mid-century-modern accessories behind the glass made for a charming design ...

Stuffed dough has nearly universal appeal, whether you call it dumpling, empanada, pierogi or, as Stratis Morfogen likes to say, a 2-ounce sandwich. The New York restaurateur started to offer his own ...