They had been around since the 19th century, and mostly disappeared 30 years ago. Now automats are coming back, with some 21st century improvements. The food vending machines are a piece of nostalgia ...

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 ...

A woman in a coat selects food from a self-serve automat, opening a small glass door labeled "Sandwiches" to retrieve a plate, with more food compartments visible along the wall. The scene is black ...

“Automats were right up there with the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden,” Kent L. Barwick, former president of the Municipal Art Society, lamented to the New York Times in 1991 when 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 ...

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 ...

One NYC restaurateur is looking to bring automats — where customers can order and get food without interacting with anyone — back into fashion with a new dumpling shop that’s set to debut in the East ...