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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...