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Horn & Hardart was a food services company in the United States noted for operating the first food service automats in Philadelphia, New York City, and Baltimore. [1] Philadelphia's Joseph Horn (1861–1941) and German-born, New Orleans -raised Frank Hardart (1850–1918) opened their first restaurant in Philadelphia, on December 22, 1888.
The Automat is a 2021 American documentary directed and produced by Lisa Hurwitz and written by Michael Levine. It is about the automats once operated by Horn & Hardart. It features an original song by Mel Brooks. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 2, 2021. It was released in the United States on February 18, 2022 ...
The first automat in the United States was opened by food services company Horn & Hardart on June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St. [2] in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [9] Inspired by Max Sielaff's automat restaurants in Berlin , they were among the first 47 restaurants (and the first outside of Europe) to receive patented vending machines from ...
'The Automat' review: Producer-director Lisa Hurwitz lines the documentary with affection for the restaurant chain from luminaries including Mel Brooks, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Colin Powell.
Frank Hardart. Frank Hardart Sr. (October 22, 1850 – December 10, 1918) was the co-founder with Joseph V. Horn of Horn & Hardart, the food service company that launched the Horn & Hardart Automat cafeterias in Philadelphia and New York. Patrons at the Automats could serve themselves by putting coins into a wall of glass-fronted dispensers ...
During the Soused (or Brown-Bag) Period, P. D. Q. Bach wrote a Concerto for Horn and Hardart (a pun on the name of a chain of automat restaurants), a Sinfonia Concertante, a Pervertimento for Bicycle, Bagpipes, and Balloons, a Serenude, a Perückenstück (literally German for "Wigpiece"), a Suite from The Civilian Barber (spoofing Rossini's The ...
Restaurants with automation aren’t inherently new—think the Horn & Hardart Automat of 1902 that revolutionized the dining experience by essentially creating a massive vending machine for ...
The Concerto for Horn and Hardart, S. 27, is a work of Peter Schickele composing under the pseudonym P. D. Q. Bach.The work is a parody of the classical double concerto but where one instrument, the hardart, uses different devices, such as plucked strings, blown whistles and popped balloons, to produce each note in its range.