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Automat

[ aw-tuh-mat ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Trademark.

a type of self-service restaurant in which customers obtain food from small compartments by depositing the required number of coins in slots so that the doors can be opened.

automat

/ ˈɔːtəˌmæt /

noun

Also calledvending machine a machine that automatically dispenses goods, such as cigarettes, when money is inserted
an area or room, sometimes having restaurant facilities, where food and other goods are supplied from vending machines

The Automat restaurants, for example, where the customer gets all his requirements himself, would never do in London.

He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he didn't even try to remember.

Stanton went through the door of the automat restaurant and walked over to the vending wall.

Mr. Lum, leaning against the Automat, darkly considered this eventuality.

He didn't quite remember how he had left the automat, and he really didn't even try to remember.

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