‘The Automat,’ The place Eating Out Was D.I.Y.
What do Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Colin Powell, Elliott Gould, Carl Reiner and the previous Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz have in widespread? All of them fondly recall consuming at an Automat — that beloved establishment of D.I.Y. eating that lasted from 1902 to 1991 in New York and Philadelphia. Lisa Hurwitz’s detailed documentary, “The Automat” (in
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