>tfw you can't go to the automat diner
im completely fucking fine with that.
>de yt man yearns fo de venting masheen
>>21681870was that meant to sound swedish? i read it in my head as swedish for some reason
>>21681861I somehow never heard of these before that documentary with Mel Brooks. What an amazing concept. I'd have loved to eat there or work there. Imagine back then every man had a hat. You're in the back making pies and sandwiches and stocking those little windows. What a time to be alive. It would be fun to go in with an entire pocket full of change and just eat all day, one little nickel item at a time, and try everything.
>>21681861Febo is best place to eat in Amsterdam on the cheap
>>21681861I wanna find someone to help me bring back automats. I feel like they would be a big hit in cities like SF or Seattle where there's a big tech culture of working 24/7
>>21681897Imagine food truck but it's automat.
>>21681861>there are two types of societies.........
>>21681950only good post itt
food safety laws are too strict now. hot foods need to be held above 140 degrees F and cold foods need to be held below 40 degrees F until the moment they are served. It would be a massive pain in the ass to have basically an entire wall of 100 little ovens and refrigerators, and somebody has to make sure that the temperatures on them are within acceptable range, and do maintenance on them if they're broken.
>>21681861just go to the supermarket, they have all kinds of hot and cold prepared foods like them rotisserie chickens and tendies and whatnot, plus a whole bakery of fresh bread and pastries, a deli of meats and olives and cheeses, plus all the actual groceries and produce. it kicks the shit out of le automát
>>21681950high trust and low trust?
>>21681861>>21682157Literally wutThey got replaced by large gas station chains with hot food
>>21682167>>21682173These.
>>21682173>They got replaced by large gas station chains with hot foodyeah like i said, it's much easier to maintain 1 hot dog roller machine, than it is to maintain 100 coin operated ez bake ovens.If it was economically feasible at all, chinese people would be running them here. You know how much they love laundromats.
i think the appeal here for automat service is the ability to purchase prepared food without ever having to interact with another human being. the autist's dream. even dealing with delivery services is all too visceral an encounter.
>>21682177Also the food is sold as a single prepared item disassociated from the production process. Autists want food to somehow not be plant or animal material.
>>21682177>>21682179As an autist, I understand what you mean. There's something appealing about taking a piece of food, and getting the irrational feeling that "it's always been there waiting for me" (even though this is obviously a fantasy).it feels like finding food in the middle of a dungeon in a video game.
>>21682177>>21682179>>21682185surely exercising the life skill to face the world, at least during the execution of chores and necessary self care, is healthier than always avoiding such interactions, no?
>>21682194well obviously i already do that. but i'm just saying it would feel better if I didn't. if you walked into an establishment and the food was already there, you'd feel like there was a lower probability of it being tampered with, because they don't know who it's going to
>>21682214true. and i suppose the transaction is eminently uncomplicated
>>21682194I find a good trick when serving a multi-ingredient dish to someone autistic is to just make up a random name for what the dish is called so they can perceive it as a singularity
>>21682216>>21682219i'm getting deja vu.I feel like we had this same conversation before, in another thread about automats.I was the one asking why are eurofags so obsessed with croquettes.
>>21682221Nope
>>21681893>on the cheap10 years ago, maybe. Nowadays it's expensive as hell.Hell, everything's expensive now. A Burger King menu is like 15 fucking euros.You're unironically better off going to an actual restaurant.
>>21682224okay well why ARE eurofags so obsessed with croquettes?
>>21682256Deep fried cheap sloppa
Sandwiches that can be refrigerated would be advantageous for vending machines. Any food will deteriorate quickly if kept at high temperatures.
Twenty years ago, I was picking up a bitch from her college but she was running late so I went into their caf (you have to swipe a card to go anywhere but the caf and the campus store) and they actually had an automat setup, which I thought was neat.>>21681893That's moreorless exactly what it looked like. >>21682176>You know how much they love laundromatsHonestly, that's more about literal money laundering. Laundromats, carwashes and nail salons are enormous money laundering operations. To be clear, not all of them and nobody knows what percentage of them actually do that shit but it's a significant percentage of them.To give you an idea, my cousin bought his first business, a carwash, through seller financing 20 years ago (around the same time as I was picking up that girl from her campus, actually). I forgot how much he paid but today, he owns four more of them and seven laundromats. He pulls in over $5mil annually and a not insignificant portion of it is in coins and cash. When we talked in September or August, he explained just how easy it would be for him to launder a million or more annually without raising any suspicion but I've forgotten the exact details. It's insane how little oversight cash-only/cash-mostly businesses have and the IRS does nothing about it.The family even thought that he might actually be laundering money because he went to prison a while ago for running an illegal casino (only a few months and, like, $10k in fines lmao) but he swears he's legit now. I'm not so sure.
>>21681861I can, kinda. There's a place near me that does non-traditional dumplings (think, like, cheeseburger dumplings, pepperoni and cheese dumplings, etc), and when your order's ready they put it in one of the little compartments and you scan your receipt to open it.
>>21682303Brooklyn is so awesome.
>>21682409Weirdly enough this place is in Manhattan, not Brooklyn.
>>21681861There was one in NYC called bamn around 2007. It sucked, its just gas station food but more inefficient.There was some novelty but thats it. Sorry you missed out.
>>21681893LEKKER
>>21681893If you like disgusting deep fried gray sludge maybe. The Dutch have a disdain for good food. Probably the worst cuisine on earth. Even immigrant restaurants serving food from countries with great food are terrible because they know Dutch retards can't tell the difference between eating a log of shit or a pork sausage.
>>21682585>The Dutch have a disdain for good foodSpoken like someone who hasn't tasted boerenkool met worst en spek yet.
>>21682744>probably the worst cuisine>literally called worstYou sure showed him
>>21681880legalism culture has deprived us of so much cool aesthetic shitthey would never let you be inside a pipe as it was lifted todaypeople should be allowed to do retarded dangerous shit if they want to
>>21681893Dutch croquettes/bitterballen may be one of the WORST foods I've ever eaten.
>>21682828Look at the guy holding the rail near the edge
>>21682828This is less dangerous than a walk through Paris at night
>>21682828This. I've grown sick and tired of the whole "human life is sacred" paradigm.
>>21682744love this shit desu
>>21682869You probably had the low tier ones.
>>21681897You'll learn very quickly why we can't have nice things here.
>>21681861automats were just giant vending machines, they still had a bunch of guys in the back cooking everything, you just didn't interact with them.
>>21682177That depends on the autist. For me it's more about efficiency. I hate standing in line (or sitting at a table) waiting for someone to get something for me that I could get for myself. If there's a cashier, I hate how long it takes them to ring things up and for the customer to figure out what payment they want to do. An automat where you drop in some coins or swipe a card would be great to avoid all that annoying overhead.Sometimes at the grocery store I'll notice that there is a longer line at the self-checkout than at a human staffed checkout lane, so I go with the human because that's faster in that situation. I just really hate dealing with waiting on inefficiency.
>>21681861The first career I ever wanted was to run a pie shop.
>>21681861These have always intrigued me but given my history in various customer service jobs I feel like it would inevitably be ruined by certain people in the current year.>Machine denies $100 for $5 purchase>Whatchu mean I can't get change fo my hunnit?>Machine denies pesos>¿No es working?
>>21683646>hey man can I get this item but with extra mayo and no pickle?
>>21683587For how long are those burgers sitting there waiting to be eaten?
>>21681861>tfwWhere's the 'f'? Not in your image. You must be new.
>>21682157They have that in literally every single Little Caesars.
