Fast-food ventures of yore

Usage examples of automats.

The automats combine varying proportions of supplies from their stocks of basic nutrients according to codes entered at the keyboard.

Within the cruiser's control center only the automats carried on their work.

Rohan could not indulge in a closer examination of this unusual find, perhaps the wreck of one of the macro-automats that had been exterminated by the fittest of the inorganic evolution, the black cloud.

And since neither the director nor the foreman corrected him when he spoke of hellish laughter, he calls the jokes that run back and forth between the laughing automats, which may as well be termed scarecrows, scarecrow jokes: "You heard this one?

A sense of shame commands Matera to avert his face, for the assembled guild of scarecrows, guided as he knows by remote control, "soulless automats," as he puts it, take the oath to the firm of Brauxel & Co.

In sum, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, food providers ranged from push carts to Automats to Delmonico's, with the range of food offerings even wider.

CHAPTER 2 BECALMED MOTION Ariel and Derec found Mandelbrot and Wolruf in the lobby, standing before one of the automats that Derec had programmed via the central computer to appear in at least ten percent of the buildings.

The Rube 8flips in the end, running through empty automats and subway stations, screaming: 'Come back, kid!

I believe my poor wee bairns of food automats may have been into mischief.