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 ...
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 ...
Some restaurateurs in the New York City metropolitan area are looking to the past to figure out the future of dining during the coronavirus pandemic. The automat, a concept developed more than a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A style of dining that gained popularity in the Great Depression is reemerging: automats, which feature food vending machines that ...
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 ...
The last automat in the US - Horn & Hardart - closed in New York in 1991, but a recent trip to Amsterdam showed me that they are still thriving in the Dutch city. A postcard showing Horn & Hardart's ...
In places like Chicago, where temperatures drop below freezing, many restaurants are grappling with how to prepare for and survive winter. Photo: Nicolas Silva for The Wall Street Journal Some ...