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John Hooper in Berlin
Saturday February 2, 2002
The Guardian
The bartenders in the club on the corner of Münzstrasse are all just under seven feet tall. One serves wine and spirits; another, beer. The third will provide you with a range of snacks in packets. The bartenders in the club on the corner of Münzstrasse are machines.
Everything, in fact, in the Automaten bar is - as its name suggests - automated. I don't know for sure, but it could be the world's first robot hostelry.
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