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In the 1st century AD, the device of the Greeks Hilo that sold the holy water automatically was the world’s first vending machine.

In 1925, the United States developed a vending machine for the sale of cigarettes. Since then, various modern vending machines have been sold that sell stamps and tickets. The types, structures, and functions of modern vending machines vary depending on the items being sold, mainly including vending machines such as candy, beverages, and newspapers. A general vending machine is composed of a coin device, a pointing device, a storage vending device, and the like. The coin device is the core of the vending machine. Its main function is to confirm the authenticity of the coin, sort the type of the coin, and calculate the amount. If the amount invested is equal to the value of the purchased item, the sales signal is sent and the remaining money is found. The indicating device is used to indicate the variety of the item selected by the customer. The storage vending device stores the merchandise, receives the sales instruction signal, and delivers the merchandise selected by the customer to the delivery port. The coin device of the general vending machine is composed of a coin slot, a sorting device, an inspection device for confirming the authenticity of the coin, a calculation device for calculating the amount, and a money-seeking device. Since the 1970s, there have been various new vending machines controlled by microcomputers and larger unmanned vending systems that use credit cards instead of coins and connect to computers, such as unmanned shopping malls, station ticketing and ticket checking systems. Bank cash automatic payment machine, etc.

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Vending machines are a new form of commercial retail that was developed in Japan and Europe and the United States in the 1970s. It is also known as a 24-hour micro supermarket. In Japan, 70% of canned beverages are sold through vending machines. The world-famous beverage company Coca-Cola has 500,000 beverage vending machines around the world.

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In Japan, there are a total of 5.5 million vending machines (according to 1998 statistics), with sales of 669,969,800,000 yen, ranking first in the world. After operating on the display screen of the vending machine, inputting the product number and the quantity purchased, and putting in the coins, the goods will come out of the pick-up port, and even hot noodles and rice balls can be purchased from the food vending machine. Although the total number of vending machines in Japan is lower than that of the United States (by 6.89 million in 1997), it is the highest in the world in terms of population, with an average of 35 in the United States and 23 in Japan. There is one person.

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In the 17th century, there were vending machines for cigarettes in small British bars. In the long history of vending machines, Japan has developed practical vending machines, which are after the turn of the century. The first vending machine in Japan was the “stamp postcard vending machine” that was introduced in 1904. It is a machine that integrates the sale of stamp postcards and the letterbox letter. The real popularity of vending machines was after the Second World War. In the 1950s, “spray-type juice vending machines” became popular, and juices were poured into paper cups for sale. Later, in 1962, a large beverage company in the United States entered the Japanese market. In 1962, there was a revolution in the circulation field dominated by vending machines. In 1967, all the currencies below 100 yen were converted into coins, which promoted the development of the vending machine industry.

An automat is a fast food restaurant where simple foods and drinks are served by vending machines. The world's first automat was named Quisisana, which opened in Berlin, Germany in 1895.

By country[edit]

Germany[edit]

The first automat in the world was the Quisisana automat, which opened in 1895 in Berlin, Germany.^[3]

Japan[edit]

In Japan, in addition to regular vending machines which sell prepared food, many restaurants also use food ticket machines (Japanese: 食券機, romanized: shokkenki), where one purchases a meal ticket from a vending machine, then presents the ticket to a server, who then prepares and serves the meal. Conveyor belt sushi restaurants are also popular.

Netherlands[edit]

Automats (Dutch: automatiek) provide a variety of typical Dutch fried fast food, such as frikandellen and croquettes, but also hamburgers and sandwiches from vending machines that are back-loaded from a kitchen. FEBO is the best-known chain of Dutch automats. Some outlets are open 24 hours a day, and are popular with locals, and those leaving clubs and bars late at night. The Dutch concept has been successfully exported overseas.^{[clarification needed]}

United States[edit]

Originally, the machines in U.S. automats took only nickels.^[4] In the original format, a cashier sat in a change booth^{[citation needed]} in the center of the restaurant, behind a wide marble counter with five to eight rounded depressions. The diner would insert the required number of coins in a machine and then lift a window, hinged at the top, and remove the meal, usually wrapped in waxed paper. The machines were replenished from the kitchen behind. All or most New York automats had a cafeteria-style steam table where patrons could slide a tray along rails and choose foods, which were ladled from tureens.

The first automat in the U.S. was opened June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St.^[2] in Philadelphia by Horn & Hardart; Horn & Hardart became the most prominent American automat chain.^[5] Inspired by Max Sielaff's AUTOMAT Restaurants in Berlin, they became among the first 47 restaurants, and the first non-Europeans, to receive patented vending machines from Sielaff's Berlin factory.^[2] The automat was brought to New York City^[2] in 1912,^[6] and gradually became part of popular culture in northern industrial cities.

The automats were popular with a wide variety of patrons, including Walter Winchell, Irving Berlin and other celebrities of the era. The New York automats were popular with unemployed songwriters and actors. Playwright Neil Simon called automats 'the Maxim's of the disenfranchised' in a 1987 article.^[7]

The format was threatened by the arrival of fast food, served over the counter and with more payment flexibility than traditional automats. By the 1970s, the automats' remaining appeal in their core urban markets was strictly nostalgic. Another contributing factor to their demise was the inflation of the 1970s, increasing food prices which made the use of coins increasingly inconvenient in a time before bill acceptors commonly appeared on vending equipment.^{[citation needed]}

At one time, there were 40 Horn & Hardart automats in New York City alone. The last one closed in 1991. Horn and Hardart converted most of its New York City locations to Burger King. At the time, the quality of the food was described by some customers as on the decline.^[7][8]

In an attempt to bring back automats in New York City, a company called Bamn! opened a new East Village Dutch-style automat store in 2006,^[9] but it closed in 2009.^[10]

• An automat in Manhattan, New York City in 1936.

• A modern automat in Manhattan's East Village, circa 2007.^[4]

• Automat at 1165 Sixth Avenue, New York City, in the 1930s.

• A Horn & Hardart postcard explaining how food was served in an automat (c. 1930s).

Rail transport[edit]

A form of the automat was used on some passenger trains. The Great Western Railway in the United Kingdom announced plans in December 1945 to introduce automat buffet cars.^[11] Plans were delayed by impending nationalisation, and an automat was finally introduced on the Cambrian Coast Express, in 1962.^[12]

In the United States, the Pennsylvania Railroad introduced an automat between Pennsylvania Station, New York City and Union Station, Washington, DC, in 1954.^[13]Southern Pacific Railroad introduced automat buffet cars on the Coast Daylight and Sunset Limited in 1962. Amtrak converted four buffet cars to automats in 1985 for use on the Auto Train. The last one in use in the United States was on the short-lived Lake Country Limited in 2001.

In Switzerland, Bodensee–Toggenburg Bahn introduced automat buffet cars, in 1987.^[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Bernardo Friese, grandson of Max Sielaff
2. ^ ^abcdAutomat-Restaurants – AUTOMAT GmbH, 23 Spenerstrasse, Berlin, N.W. :: Trade Catalogs and Pamphlets - oclc
3. ^Smith, A.F.; Oliver, G. (2015). Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover's Companion to New York City. Oxford University Press, Incorporated. p. 24. ISBN978-0-19-939702-0. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
4. ^ ^abLui, Claire (2006). 'Bamn! The Automat Is Back – Restaurant – Food & Drink'. American Heritage Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
5. ^'Horn & Hardart Automat, 968 6th Ave. between 35th & 36th Sts. (1986)', 36th Street, New York City Signs -- 14th to 42nd Street.
6. ^'Automats become a thing of the past in New York'. Free Lance-Star. (Fredericksburg, Virginia). Associated Press. December 31, 1977. p. 12.
7. ^ ^abBarron, James (April 11, 1991). 'Last Automat Closes, Its Era Long Gone'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
8. ^'New York's Last Automat Closes'. St. Petersburg Times. Associated Press. April 11, 1991. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
9. ^Matthews, Karen (August 28, 2006). 'Updated Automat to open in New York City'. boston.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
10. ^Amanda Kludt (March 9, 2009). 'The Shutter: Felled Bamn! to Become Baoguette?'. Eater NY.
11. ^'Automat Buffet Cars For British Railways'. Reuters. 26 December 1945.
12. ^'Railway Gazette'. The Railway Gazette. 119: 709. 1963.
13. ^'Automatic Buffet-Bar Car Introduced By Pennsy'. Locomotive Engineers Journal. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. 88: 236. 1954.
14. ^Jane's World Railways. Jane's Yearbooks. 1988. p. 700. ISBN0-7106-0871-3.

Further reading[edit]

• 'The Last Automat,' by James T. Farrell (New York, May 14, 1979)
• Automatenrestaurant Qusisana, Mariahilfer Straße 34 im 7, Vienna, Austria, 1972 from Pohanka, Reinhard; Sinalco-Epoche kenne ich

External links[edit]

• In Praise of the Automat – slideshow by Life magazine
• Sielaff Automaten Berlin – Max Sielaff, Automat inventor website
• Automat Restaurants :: Trade Catalogs and Pamphlets - oclc