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The picture of eleven steel workers eating lunch on a girder 250 meters above ground with Manhattan under their feet and Central Park in the background is famous. It is considered the most iconic picture of what New York is all about: hard working common men building a city of wonders. The picture was first …

Even though the Automats became an integral part of the American fast food culture, they were actually a German invention. Long before arriving to the United States in 1902, there were already successful automatic restaurants in the Berlin zoo as far back as 1895, in the international exhibition of Brussels in 1897 and “buffets automatiques” …