Inside the soon-to-open Brooklyn Dumpling Shop. (Provided) May 13, 2021 An automat-style QSR this website recently featured, Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, will open on First Avenue in New York City's East Village May 19, a news release said. The fully automated store created by Brooklyn Chop House Director of Operations Stratis Morfogen brings the Automat, first introduced in the early twentieth century, into the current restaurant landscape with improved technology and "zero human interaction" throughout the grab-and-go process. The food locker technology at the store comes from Ondo and is powered by Panasonic to provide guests with a safe way to retrieve their orders from temperature-controlled lockers at peak freshness.