Are old-school automats about to make a comeback? (via EaterNY)
, located at the corner of First Avenue and St. Marks Place, will have both metal detectors scanning customers’ temperatures and glass lockers with food that open just by scanning a smartphone, according toon the details of the planned fast food restaurant. Owner Stratis Morfogen, founder of the splashy Chinese restaurant Philippe Chow, and FiDi’s Asian steakhouse Brooklyn Chop House, started working on the plan after the pandemic hit, he says.
For the temperature scanners, Morfogen repurposed some metal detectors from nightclubs that he used to own and has installed temperature sensors in them. Customers entering the shop first pass through, which flashes red if someone’s temperature measures above 99.6 degrees F, and green if not, Morfogen tells Eater.
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