Brooklyn Dumpling Shop This one-of-a-kind quick service restaurant will have a Dumpling Lab in the front window with the restaurant’s dumpling making machines for all to see. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, the nation’s fastest growing dumpling automat concept, will open at St. Mark’s Place (131 First Avenue) in the East Village on Wednesday, May 19. This fully automated restaurant conceptualized by Brooklyn Chop House Director of Operations Stratis Morfogen will bring the Automat of yesteryear into 2021 with advanced Autoflow technology made for today and Zero Human Interaction (ZHI) throughout the entire grab-and-go process. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s state-of-the-art food locker technology from ONDO, powered by Panasonic, will provide guests with an easy, safe option to pick up orders from temperature-controlled lockers at peak freshness.