On Apr 4, 8:51*pm, wrote:
Fairly sure there was a place called Automat in Bellevue road
Southampton UK till around 1980 ish. No idea if the food was any good
though.

The 'fina' petrol station at the old Norman cross roundabout on the A1
used to be completely robotic for a few years in the 70s. Note
acceptors on the petrol pumps, and an automat for selling hot and cold
food. There was an Automat in one of the garages in Yorkshire, too,
filled up twice a day by a mad old woman in a headscarf and a dog that
used to piddle on yer car.