She Says' Choice Gets Cooler in Retrospect

When we were in D.C. over the summer, She Says and her husband (to be, at the time) took us to Ben's Chili Bowl for dinner to have some cheese fries. So "What does the president-elect order on his first Saturday afternoon since moving into town? A chili dog and cheese fries. (Huff Post)" That story obviously loses a little bit of it's luster as Obama wasn't there at the same time we were, but I'm not sure I've ever eaten anywhere else where a president ate, so it's sort of exciting. However, I do have this vague memory of eating with the Boy Scouts at what I swear was an automat frequented by congresspeople near the Capitol in D.C. back in 1981 (is that a dream? or was there some sort of automat-like cafeteria in the area back then? Perhaps not a real automat, but where they put your food in automat-like receptacles?) which would presumably have hosted a president or two if it was real.