My memories of the Automats will never fade!!!! My Grandfather worked as a watchman at the commissary where all the food was made! it was in the area of New York City that was known as Hells Kitchen! He would bring home some of the food! It was wonderful! Baked beans,cheesecake, lemon pie etc. I still have a toothpick holder from the automat.
1972: Horn & Hardart acquires Hanover House Industries. 1991: Last Automat closes. 1993: Name is changed to Hanover Direct. Company History: Hanover Direct, Inc. is a leading catalog and online retailer. It operates a fleet of catalogs offering consumers clothing, home fashions, and gift items.
A decade after the company’s New York launch, it opened the city’s first combination of automat and conventional cafeteria, which could serve 10,000 customers per day. That same year, the company also introduced retail stores that sold prepackaged Horn & Hardart menu items.
The Horn & Hardart Automat was a chain of self-service restaurants in New York City and Philadelphia which — from the early 1900s to the early 1990s — allowed patrons to serve themselves ready-to-eat hot food using coins to unlock glass compartments that were refilled by servers behind a wall. It was one of the first businesses to
Synopsis: Featuring an original new song written and performed by Mel Brooks, THE AUTOMAT tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables.
But java couldn't save Horn & Hardart's business model as city dwellers moved out to the suburbs, office buildings opened their own cafeterias, and other fast-food chains entered the market in the
In all the cities above Baltimore, the restaurants were known as Horn and Hardart and they were synonymous with a mechanical means of serving food — the Automat.
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