Automat
a type of self-service restaurant in which customers obtain food from small compartments by depositing the required number of coins in slots so that the doors can be opened.
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How to use Automat in a sentence
And, best of all, she gets Mel Brooks on camera, waxing poetic about his Brooklyn childhood and, specifically, his love for the Automat.
The Automat Traces the History of a Beloved Restaurant Chain, With Mel Brooks as a Guide | Stephanie Zacharek | February 18, 2022 | TimeEven if you’ve never had the pleasure of eating in an Automat, Hurwitz brings the experience to life.
The Automat Traces the History of a Beloved Restaurant Chain, With Mel Brooks as a Guide | Stephanie Zacharek | February 18, 2022 | TimeJoe Horn and Frank Hardart opened a chain of Automat restaurants in New York City around the mid-1900s that served fresh pastries, pies, doughnuts, cakes, soups, and salads.
Meat vending machines are just the latest way the pandemic has reinvented eating | Charlotte Hu | September 21, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe Automat restaurants, for example, where the customer gets all his requirements himself, would never do in London.
Roving East and Roving West | E. V. LucasHe didn't quite remember how he had left the Automat, and he didn't even try to remember.
Anything You Can Do | Gordon Randall Garrett
Stanton went through the door of the Automat restaurant and walked over to the vending wall.
Anything You Can Do | Gordon Randall GarrettMr. Lum, leaning against the Automat, darkly considered this eventuality.
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon | Richard ConnellHe didn't quite remember how he had left the Automat, and he really didn't even try to remember.
Anything You Can Do ... | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for automat
/ (ˈɔːtəˌmæt) /
Also called: vending machine a machine that automatically dispenses goods, such as cigarettes, when money is inserted
mainly US an area or room, sometimes having restaurant facilities, where food and other goods are supplied from vending machines
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