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Restaurant Industry News |
Friday August 8th, 2008 |
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Menus that speak out aid sight-impaired diners |
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Orlando native Jessica MacWithey was having lunch with her aunt Susan Perry in a South Florida Olive Garden last year when they realized that neither of them could read the menu. |
MacWithey, 24, has a condition that leaves her unable to see fine details, recognize faces or read print, and Perry had forgotten her glasses. They asked the server for a run-down, but she was too busy to give a complete reading.
"I said, 'You know, we should put the menu on a tape recorder,' " Perry recalls.
The luncheon became a brainstorming session between the two women, with Perry drawing a prototype. A mere nine months later the two had the prototype in hand and had developed Menus That Talk, an electronic device about the size of a hardcover book with the details of a restaurant's bill of fare recorded on a chip.
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Source - Orlando Sentinel
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