This should be at every restaurant
Posted May 24, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC
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It is at almost every restaurant. Certainly every big chain. Many states (in the US) have accommodation requirements that include making Braille menus available. Plenty of other restaurants do it just because.
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I didn't know this was an actual thing, especially since so many people have issues ordering all the time. I'm glad to see that it is
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I see what you did there.
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As someone who runs a restaurant I will say. It is much easier for a big chain restaurant with a menu that rarely changes to be able to accommodate this and good on them. I’m sure the food is meh but your menu is fixed. I would love to do something like this, but when you are running a farm to table restaurant with an ever changing menu this is nearly impossible. It’s hard enough to to make a printed menu without a mistake here and there when it changes so much let a lone a menu that requires special printing techniques. Although I wouldn’t be able to provide a brail menu having highly educated staff that is passionate about the food they are more than happy to talk to you about every dish if necessary and I do have some staff that know ASL for the hearing impaired although that is less of an issue in a restaurant. I hope your sis enjoyed reading the menu as much as she enjoyed the food.
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It sounds like braille menus may be cost-prohibitive in your case or just plain impractical. What about uploading your menu online? If it's in a PDF format already (and as long as that PDF format uses actual text and not images made out of text), then a person can use an assistive text-to-speech application from their phones to read your menu online.
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Good idea I’ll have to look into it. We type up our menus in adobe illustrator and they can be exported to pdf. Of the many skills one should possess to make it in this industry technology isn’t really one so I always appreciate the knowledge.
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Big chain restaurants may keep their core items but they change their menu every 2 to 3 months. You're running farm to table restaurant service which means you have the highest profit margins possible for a restaurant. You could do Braille if you wanted.
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Unfortunately it's not helpful to everyone because the literacy rate in blind people is so low. Especially with modern technology like screen readers less and less blind people can even read Braille
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It doesn't have to be helpful to everyone, but it's nice that it exists.
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Very true, I would rather have them offer a braille menu to too many people than not enough people
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Cracker Barrels have them!
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Did brad ever get an answer about his wife getting fired?
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Asking the important questions.
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They have everything tho.
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Except decent food....
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They have real maple syrup though!
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When you’re starving on the road does taste matter?
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I remember when I first saw this my reaction was "what country did this girl grow up in?" we had braille menus at restaurants when I was a kid in the 90s. I know because I used to love the feeling of braille.
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I'd like to believe this, but I don't. No restaurant I worked at had one, and that includes 2 major chains. And I have some familiarity with a few more prominent restaurants in my large city that also don't.
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This post is Reddit’s free points. It’s grantees to get on the front page. Like every other single time someone will post this.
She probably has kids who graduated from college by now.
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Can I get some of those grantees?
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No I’m all out of stock
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I get to look at the pictures and I still can't decide what I want!
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How many times is this going to get reposted
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It should be mandatory. In Europe, there is now a law for a mandatory access for wheelchairs, Braille should be everywhere too!
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In the US we’ve had the Americans with Disabilities Act since 1990 that requires by law many accommodations for people with disabilities. That is why there are ramps most places for people in wheelchairs and Braille on the ATMs. It varies in the level of requirements for different sized businesses, apartment buildings, etc.
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Why? Why does Braille have to be on bathroom signs? How the person even find the sign?
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I just meant that in Europe the only effort was for people in wheelchair, and exceptionally having Braille in museums... Graphic designers now learn to add and alternative text instead of displaying an image in HTML. Some little efforts can change a lot.
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Why have Braille in museums? Why not the audio system that everyone can use?
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Not everyone likes audio. Having audio as an extra option would be great, but some people just don’t do too well with that
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Why does Braille have to be on bathroom signs?
so blind people know whether the bathroom is gender-specific. blind people use bathrooms too.
How the person even find the sign?
by reaching out with their hand, around eye level, where most signs are (e.g. adjacent to the door or affixed to the door itself)
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How do they find the door? Really - in an airport how is a blind person going to find any signs or doors?
The only way thy will find the doors is either with help or they know the building layout. If they know that then they aren’t using the signs—worked with a blind person and they never used Braille signs.
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Is there any specific reason for your crusade against accommodations for the disabled?
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Can we PLEASE STOP REPOSTING THIS
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The sister has got to be 26 by now
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I'm picturing a happy waitress realizing she's blind and then excitedly grabbing their brail menu.
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This picture is posted on this sub every fucking week smh
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This might see the fist time she goes to any restaurant :^)
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Hope she gets a feel of what she wants
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Outstanding 🤗
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When I worked in a restaurant I had a couple of regulars come in every week. I learned their names and their preferences so that the man who had a vision impairment felt more comfortable and I always sat them in my section. It took about 4 months for me to stumble upon a braille menu buried in the office. Either no one knew we had it, or just didnt think to offer it to him. We had a ridiculously long menu so he was happy about the number of choices he had once I offered it.
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Jokes on her, the menu is blank 😂😂
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This also shouldn't be posted every. Damn. Week
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For the First time i the That This i a menu in blind-language ( idk What is the Word?) i Always Thaught she Never had a Menu in her live and its all about How she didnt know how to Place her Hands on it lol shame on me
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It's called braille :)
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And I also think every news cast should have someone signing in the background or off to the side.
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Is Braille read or felt?
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I'd think it's read. Felt is the sensory input in the same way that seeing is the sensory input with printed text. Reading is the processing part which interprets that sensory input into words.
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Ah makes sense
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Perkins has this I worked there and saw it
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Didn’t see that coming.
Take my upvote and get the hell out
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Blindsided by it, one could say.
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