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The first automat at 13 Leipziger Straße in Berlin, Germany [1] [2]) A food ticket machine in Japan in 2022. An automat is a type of fast-food restaurant where food and drink are served through a vending machine, typically without waitstaff. The world's first automat, Quisisana, opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895. [3] [4]
Quisisana also manufactured automat machines and equipment, [3] including a milk vending machine which was adapted for use in German schools. [ 4 ] The name Quisisana comes from the Italian phrase qui si sana [ˈkwi ssi ˈsaːna] which roughly translates to "here one is healed" or "here you become healthy". [ 5 ]
FEBO (Dutch pronunciation:) is a chain of Dutch walk-up fast food restaurants of the automat type. Founded in 1941 in Amsterdam, Netherlands , FEBO is most notable for this automatic format: a counter is available for purchasing French fries , beverages , and hamburgers .
Discover which classic drive-in restaurants are worth a visit on your next road trip. They had their heyday in the 1950s and '60s, but there are still plenty of drive-ins to discover.
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] Horn & Hardart automats ushered in the fast food era and at their height, they were the largest restaurant chain in the world, with 88 locations.
Radical Eats. Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable ...
But Motz points out that “the smash burger technique predates preformed patties… by 50, 60 years.” The first burgers were created by shaping balls of ground beef and then flattening them out ...
The website's consensus reads: "A wistful ode to a bygone era, The Automat will make viewers nostalgic for America's past – and hungry for a meal at the titular diner." [8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [9]