These stories - and there have been many in the last year or so - never bring up the automat. There&#x27;s a century long history of self-service restaurants, which were nearly all replaced by fast food restaurants. FEBO stores in The Netherlands has an automat component.<p>If minimum wage were so critical, why haven&#x27;t more fast food restaurants in The Netherlands, where (Wikipedia tells me) the minimum wage is $10&#x2F;hour for those 23 and older?