Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An institution for nearly a century, the Automat – self-service restaurants operated by Horn & Hardart, in which food items were ...

It seemed like magic: A restaurant without waiters. Instead, walls of shiny glass and chrome doors, which opened to reveal comfort foods to match Mom's cooking. "Pies, pies, pies. Yes, the pies were ...

An institution for nearly a century, the Automat – self-service restaurants created by Horn & Hardart, in which food items were sold from coin-operated dispensers – offered customers in New York and ...

Lisa Hurwitz’s The Automat is a lovely look back at, well, the automat. Specifically, the Horn & Hardart Automat restaurants found in Philadelphia and New York City, from their beginnings in 1888 ...

Not to mention, at the end, a little spurt of cream. “At the Automat,” Brooks’ original song celebrating the joys of this unique type of restaurant — particularly its five-cent coffee — plays over the ...

One afternoon in 1969 Patti Smith peered into the glass hatches of an Automat, a cafeteria which dispensed cheap food from vending machines. It was one of the musician’s favourite places to eat in New ...

Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are just a few of the prominent folks who recall the joys of the innovative cafeteria in Lisa Hurwitz's documentary. By Stephen Farber Among the ...

Mention Horn & Hardart or the Automat to anyone who visited one, and you'll find yourself captivated by a flood of memories. Established in 1888 by Joseph Horn & Frank Hardart, the Automat, ...

It isn’t difficult to explain the premise of The Automat, but it’s a little challenging to describe how it makes you feel. On the surface, it’s a case study about an early-20th-century restaurant ...

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) -- A blast from the past is making a return in New Jersey. An automat, which was popular in the 1960s, is now serving up meals in Jersey City - but with some high-tech ...

It seemed like magic: A restaurant without waiters. Instead, walls of shiny glass and chrome doors, which opened to reveal comfort foods to match Mom's cooking. "Pies, pies, pies. Yes, the pies were ...