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  2. Horn & Hardart - Wikipedia

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    In their heyday, Horn & Hardart automats were popular, busy eateries. They featured prepared foods displayed behind small coin- and token-operated glass-doored windows, beginning with buns, beans, fish cakes, and coffee. [citation needed] As late as the 1950s one could enjoy a large, if somewhat plain, meal for under $1.00. Each stack of ...

  3. Mills Novelty Company - Wikipedia

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    The Mills Novelty Company, Incorporated of Chicago was once a leading manufacturer of coin-operated machines, including slot machines, vending machines, and jukeboxes, in the United States. Between about 1905 and 1930, the company's products included the Mills Violano-Virtuoso and its predecessors, celebrated machines that automatically played ...

  4. Folz Vending - Wikipedia

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    Each machine generated approximately $35 a month in quarters. The company operated 150,000 machines and had sales in excess of $55 million in 2002. Roger Folz sold the company to American Coin Merchandising, Inc. in 2003. [2] American Coin Merchandising was sold to Coinstar in 2004 for $235 million. [3] Coinstar closed Folz Vending in 2007. [4]

  5. Vending machine - Wikipedia

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    A snack food vending machine made in 1952 Gashapon vending machines Newspaper vending machines in Munich, Germany An automobile parking ticket machine in the Czech Republic. A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or ...

  6. Automat - Wikipedia

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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]

  7. You may want to think twice before getting gum from a ... - AOL

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    In 1888, inventor Thomas Adams debuted coin-operated vending machines in New York City, which dispensed packaged gum, mints and stationery. Fewer than 20 years later, ...

  8. Newspaper vending machine - Wikipedia

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    The coin operated newspaper vending machine was invented in 1947 by inventor George Thiemeyer Hemmeter. [2] [3] [4] Hemmeter's company, the Serven Vendor Company, was based in Berkeley, California, and had been making rural mail tubes and honor racks. The new invention could be adjusted to accept coins of different denominations (depending on ...

  9. Seeburg Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment. Founded in 1902, its first products were Orchestrions and automatic pianos but after the arrival of gramophone records, the company developed a series of "coin-operated phonographs." [1]

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