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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
They had these in turn-of-the-century urban areas. They were called Automats, and originally served blue collar workers hot lunches and packaged sandwiches, but also were open for cheap, waiterless dinners served from steam tables, just like a college cafeteria. They flourished through the '50s but were killed by the rise of fast food chains.
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Personally, I think it's a great idea. Fast food chains and takeout salad bars have positively destroyed a centuries-old tradition of meeting friends for informal dining, which explains why America has none of the pub/café life that makes Europe so liveable despite its supposedly second-world economy.
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There is, or used to be a cafeteris, in Kenmore Square in Boston. Though BU is right there, I recall it being a blue collar joint. It wasnt an all you can eat thing I don think - but did have the tray and stuff. I guess the problem would be how do you keep the proles out and limit it to the MTV demo? Perhaps it could be a membership thing? Private club?
I guess its like that old saying goes, Where there's cheap food, there are proles.
