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Off The Menu: Smaller menus, staff, and more carryout may become enduring parts of restaurant landscape
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
Much has changed in the restaurant industry over the past 12 months, and a question on the minds of most top executives in the business is the extent to which those changes will turn out to be lasting. Consumers have reacted to the pandemic by embracing third party delivery, curbside pickup, and family meals as substitutes for the traditional dining experience, and many who run restaurant companies are betting that changes in consumer behavior are going to linger long after the pandemic subsides.
Automat Kitchen opens in Jersey City, Academy Bus launches mobile app | Business Notes
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
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Contactless Automat Kitchen opens in Jersey City
Jersey City’s new Automat Kitchen has opened at 525 Washington Blvd. with a chef-curated menu of modern comfort food made to order and a technology-driven contactless experience that fits diners’ needs.
Customers can order in advance on their phone or online, or at the location by scanning a QR code to connect to the menu and ordering system. There are kiosk screens at the location where orders can be placed without interacting with anyone. The guest then receives a code via text to click on to unlock the cubby/locker when the order is ready. The orders can be scheduled for a specific time as well. Order status will be displayed on the screens above the cubbies when received and when ready, the cubby number.
It s Back To The Future With Jersey City s New Automat Kitchen View all 13
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 century, the stacks of windowed cubby holes devouring nickels by the score and spitting out slices of pie, or cups of hot coffee, or plates of bacon and eggs. By the time I ate at one in the late 1970s, the pseudo-retro Horn and Hardart near Grand Central, the format, and food, were way past their prime.
Photo courtesy of Automat Kitchen.
Feb. 3, 2021
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 made to order and a technology-driven contactless experience, according to a press release.
Automat Kitchen at 525 Washington Blvd. in Jersey City marks the second restaurant concept based on the Automat to be introduced in recent months in the metropolitan New York City area, following the opening of the previously announced Brooklyn Dumpling Shop.
Automat Kitchen modernizes the original concept for today s diners with a fully contactless and touchless process.