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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jersey City’s new Automat Kitchen has opened at 525 Washington Blvd. with a chef-curated menu of modern comfort food made to order and a technology-driven contactless experience that fits diners’ ...