A movement is now on foot for the erection of restaurants in London run on put-your-money-in-the-silot lines. In them everything is done mechanically. The food is laid out for inspection in little cubicles, each with a glass door. The customer selects hl ; s dish and places in the slot the necessary amount of money. By an ingennious mechanical, device the door flies opejn and the meal is delivered. Sweets may be had ini a similar way, but liquids are more difficult. If one wants coffee he places his money in the slot as before. For instance, one must be quick to, catch the cup, which is mysteriously hurled at him.’ While, the startled customer is wondering what to do with it something else starts happening at his side. It is the coffee coming out of a hole in the wall. Milk follows with devastating rapidity.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5236, 8 February 1928, Page 3
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