Word: hardart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From the outside it looks like a Pepsi-Cola bottling factory. From the inside it looks like Horn & Hardart's automat. But it's pretty as a picture and it works like a charm...
...final jingle of change through the slot above the lion-head spout served a cup of coffee for eternity. Last week Horn & Hardart closed the nation's last surviving Automat, on New York City's 42nd Street, two blocks east of Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...
...weaned on fast-food outlets didn't see the point of all the fancy fixtures and the diverse menu. Nor did the upscale power lunchers have any use for the Automats' simple fare. "Those who've become successful stopped coming," says Michael Sherman, an executive vice president at Horn & Hardart, which is now concentrating on direct-mail catalogs. "They've been calling to ask why it's closing. I ask them, 'When was the last time you were there...