Originally, the machines in U.S. automats took only nickels. FEBO is the best-known chain of Dutch automats. FEBO is one of the largest of such types of fast-food restaurants with automats. Funds for the renovation were donated by Joseph Horn, of Horn and Hardart's automats. Other FEBO snacks can be bought from the automats. Jaquet-Droz created mechanical puppet automats. The New York automats were popular with unemployed songwriters and actors. In an attempt to bring back automats in New York City, a company called Bamn! Playwright Neil Simon called automats "the Maxim's of the disenfranchised" in a 1987 article. Automats remained extremely popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Amtrak converted four buffet cars to automats in 1985 for use on the Auto Train. At one time, there were 40 Horn & Hardart automats in New York City alone. Called automats, or in Japan shokkenki, customers ordered their foods directly through the machines.