automat

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Apart from the tellingly-named ghost kitchens, fast-food companies, the successors of the original Automat, seem eager to find out.

From Salon • Jan. 22, 2024

It was to be the Automat of the intelligence community, “with its doors never tightly closed and with customers going in and out, day and night,” according to a CIA history.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2022

Although he conceived Automat Kitchen 15 years ago, it did not open until January 2021.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

They all fondly recall eating at an Automat — that beloved institution of D.I.Y. dining that lasted from 1902 to 1991 in New York and Philadelphia.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

He'd end up an exile washing dishes at the Automat.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison