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(NO CHANGES MADE) The article says the window looks out into darkness and does not convey any further information. But presuming no artist of Hopper's caliber creates meaningless detail, what is that blue light, our there in the night just to the left of the bowl? It does not look like a street lamp. Hieronymous (talk) 21:15, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is the Dec 10 addition by User:Kaszeta relevant? Vending machines are everywhere. I think they must be back-fed and contain some non-sandwich, non-candy, perishable food to qualify for comparison to Automats... I never saw these FEBO stores though.

I should've been a little more clear (and I've made edits): FEBO is indeed an automat. The vast majority of the store is a large bank of vending machines, which are open on the back, and are loaded with a variety of (mostly deep-fried) fresh food items directly from the kitchen, and seem to be very popular with the late-night Amsterdam crowd. For reference, see [1] for a description, and [2] and [3] for images. -- Kaszeta 16:57, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Any good reason why the restaraunt in Dark City is described as "Automat like"? I'm no historian on the matter (in fact that would be the only one I've seen :) but that does sound like what is described here, and they did call it an "automat" several times in the movie and it had a big neon sign on the storefront which read "AUTOMAT".

I'm just checking before making a change in case anyone feels it should remain the way it is. Thank you :) 216.228.174.81 06:44, 31 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Changed it. Rattatosk 05:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of Dark City, I removed the entire "See Also..." section, since the only thing in that section was a note about the Automat in Dark City... which was already listed in the section for "Automats in Fiction".--Raguleader 23:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article uses the past tense improperly, especially since automats still exist. I've converted the lead, but I'll get back to the body later. Night Gyr 04:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I change the langauge of the intro back to present tense since a new automat recently opened in New York City in 2006 and automats still exist in other parts of the world. --Cab88 02:28, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where are these automats-in existence? It should be noted that the recently opened automat in NYC filled a gap of over 15 years.Dogru144 18:58, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to the article, the Netherlands.--Raguleader 23:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's true. They're actually quite common here in the Netherlands. You'll find serveral of them in every city, and at least one in every train station.--KoKiv 13:48, 29 April 2007 (GMT) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.27.10.164 (talk) 11:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

At least one episode of The Flintstones had a scene in an Automat.

The Franklin Institute used to have an automat in the 1980s, but it was converted to some sort of fast food franchise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.49.154 (talk) 03:16, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

An editor removed the "automats in media" section. Which is fine since it was kinda random; while a category for movies featuring an automat would be kinda nice, I'm not gonna put it together. In case anyone wants the content for some reason it's here. -- Akb4 (talk) 05:48, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The end of the first paragraph says:

They are still very common in The Netherlands, but outside of there, few exist.

The last paragraph is inconsistent with that:

The automat food format is still popular in some other countries.

What other countries are those? In any case, I think these two should be merged into one. – McDutchie (talk) 01:19, 1 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is listed as a German loanword, but it isn't in my dictionary; does anyone have a dictionary that does list this?
Otherwise it should go to the "Glossary of German terms" category, at a push. Moonraker12 (talk) 17:25, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]