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Friday, August 1, 2014
Tucson Needs a Restaurant Staffed With Deaf Servers
Posted By Henry Barajas on Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:00 PM
Here’s a million dollar idea: hire a staff that can’t hear a word said. Anjan Manikumar opened a restaurant that employs deaf waiters, and this has never been done in Canada. The idea originated when Manikumar noticed a deaf customer ordering an item by pointing at the menu. Manikumar told CBC News, “I felt he wasn’t getting the service he deserved.”
From The National:
Signs offers customers a chance to learn basic sign language through helpful graphics incorporated in the menu, cheat-sheets placed on tables and wall mounted photographs illustrating signs for common words needed in a restaurant like the names of alcoholic drinks.What better way to include diversity in the workplace while providing a unique dining experience?
“We expect our customers to order using sign language – our menus are designed in such a way that our customers can do that,” says Manikumar. “This will allow our customers to experience the fun of learning something new.”
I’ll never forget my first encounter with a deaf customer. I was working at a movie theater and two Hispanic kids come up to me and start signing at me, but I had no idea what they were saying. I finally figured out what they needed, and I learned something during that transaction. Society doesn’t do enough to accommodate our deaf community.
Hopefully, restaurants like Signs and people like Manikumar will change that.
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