Automat Kitchen in Jersey City, New Jersey, is trying to revive the automat. Its restaurant has no waiting staff and it instead serves all its food through lockers. You can order in advance online, or ...

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 ...

An American dining icon has returned with the opening of Automat Kitchen in Jersey City, New Jersey, the reinvention of the historic establishment but with a chef-curated menu of modern comfort food ...

Big news! Provided you're old enough to know it had ever left. What's an automat? For anyone born after 1991 — when the last one in New York closed its doors — the automat was a kind of ...

A century-old dining concept is being resurrected in the New York metro area, as restaurant owners struggle for customers amid the continued coronavirus restrictions. Automat Kitchen in Jersey City ...

It took Joe Scutellaro 15 years, but come Wednesday, he is set to open Automat Kitchen in Jersey City, a high-tech reboot of the automat, a century-plus-old restaurant concept where patrons could get ...

As I approached the curved wall of glowing glass compartments, I imagined I was about to have dinner on a space ship. “Good evening, Jeremy. Dinner is served,” a disembodied voice should have ...

Long ago, automats were considered as quintessential as our bodegas and slice joints are today. There were more than 50 automats scattered around town during their heyday in the middle of the 20th ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. When the first Horn & Hardart Automat appeared in New York City, in 1912, ...

With as many as half of New York City’s nearly 24,000 restaurants and bars potentially being forced to close permanently within a year due to COVID-19-related financial problems, the notion of opening ...