“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 ...

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 ...

Joshua David Stein is a New York-based journalist, author, food critic, and editor. Eatsa recently opened off the Embarcadero in San Francisco, with a wall of LCD screens, compartments full of quinoa ...

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 ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Horn & Hardart was a Philadelphia company that opened its first Automat in ...

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 ...