Horn & Hardart, USA, 1944 00Ocean yellow rattler cocktails were served

yellow rattler cocktails were served which consisted of vermouth

chefs add seasoning to dishes and struggle with giant lobsters while waiters rush to serve tureens of soup and pop open champagne

and thoroughly wholesome

It was a roadside barbecue restaurant unlike any other: Its patrons could drive up

the finest quality of food

Horn & Hardart, USA, 1944 00Ocean yellow rattler cocktails were servedJoseph Horn and Frank Hardart, who introduced the idea of food vending machines to America, started in the restaurant business in 1888 when they opened a 15 stool luncheonette in Philadelphia. Inspired by Automat restaurants in Berlin, the businessmen opened their first automat in 1902 in Philadelphia. Women called nickel throwers exchanged larger coins and bills for customers who were instructed to drop five cent pieces into slots, turn chrome plated