Do you sell gourmet coffee?
Becky
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From: "Gerry Leary via Cookinginthedark" <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>
To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org>; "Mike and Jenna" <schwal...@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?
Hello, I am Gerry Leary. I own the unseen bean coffee shop. It has two
locations. I roast all of the coffee for it. I can do most tasks in the
coffee shops well, and a few tasks clumsily. The tasks that I do clumsily or
ones that I don't do often and haven't learned well. I do come from a handy
background, because I was car mechanic for 40 years. I have been blind
since birth, and have no idea what vision is. The tasks that are difficult
for me to do in a coffee shop or things like spreading things on bread
smoothly picking up only one slice of Finley sliced meat. I do these things
with food gloves on because a it is a requirement, and be it gives the
people confidence in the cleanliness of our shops.
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On Dec 5, 2015, at 6:24 AM, Mike and Jenna via Cookinginthedark
<cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> wrote:
Hi,
I woulk in the restaurant filed. I find that their really isn't much she
can not do. I found the only thing for me was decorating cakes and stuff.
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From: Parham Doustdar via Cookinginthedark
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Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 5:11 AM
To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org
Subject: [CnD] Question: what can the blind do in a restaurant?
Hi,
As a programmer, I started programming before I even knew my limitations.
I didn't know what the blind can and cannot do when it comes to
programming, and I frankly didn't care: programming was fun and I did it,
and that was all that mattered.
However, when it comes to food-related stuff, for most stuff, you need to
get training, and you need to know what you can do better than others, and
what you're not so good at, and what you definitely cannot do, so that you
can do what is called "targeted learning", where you slim down what you're
going to learn to what you will absolutely need, and go for them.
My spouse who is completely blind likes to one day own a restaurant.
Even if she doesn't achieve this goal, she enjoys reading about food,
learning how to cook, and so on. I've read that there are blind restaurant
owners and chefs and so on, and this email is for those people.
Since you guys are much more experienced at this than I am, can you help
her decide what to learn? What positions in a restaurant are
blind-friendly, to coin a term?
Best,
Parham
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http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark I am using Siri to
dictate this, so it may be a little rough. Anyway the tasks that I find
difficult I don't do often, but they haven't gotten easier. As I work in
the industry and experiment yes somethings to get much easier. But things
like latte art I haven't done yet. Some of the tasks in a restaurant can
be easier, if you use equipment that blind people can control. Our use a
cash register program that works on an iPad and it works quite well with
voiceover. It also has a really good back office that you get to online
that can give you all of the reports. I do have a little difficulty
working with her talking scale, because there isn't a good one that can do
what I needed to do. So that task I leave for others most of the time. I
do have a scale that talks, but it is not trade legal so I can't custom
way anything. Also I may have a little trouble with presentation when I'm
putting things on our plate, because I don't necess
arily know The way that it might look the best. So, other people and assist
me with that. When our coffee shop is really really busy, I generally stay
away from the backside of the counter. I can be more productive talking to
people about how blind people roast coffee, what kind of adaptations we had
to make in the equipment so that I could use it, and anything about the rest
of the difficulties of being in the restaurant I would say, the most
difficult part about being a blind business person is all of the paperwork
necessary to carry it out. The accounting the taxes the invoicing the
receiving the shipping and anything else that you might think of that song
for you druther really needs a pair of eyes to make it an efficient process.
Therefore a lot of that work I have to buy. So in some ways it cost me more
as a blind person however, there are sighted people out there that just
can't add 2+17-5 because it just isn't something that they like to do there
are sighted people out there
that don't even know what a screwdriver does. They just don't have it in
them, or they don't have the interest. So we're not really any worse off as
blind people. In my case I have to pay bookkeepers accountants secretaries
readers drivers and people to assist me in many of the restaurant processes.
Four instance I can function well if I label all of the bottles in the
refrigerator. I can function well if I label all of the meat containers.
That way I don't have to touch the insides of the container or smell the
bottle or take a taste for my glass. I can function well with the cash
register once I'm used to how it works. The one in my secondary store which
I'm at every day, is set up a little differently, and doesn't have as many
items on it. If you wish I would talk on the phone or through Skype as long
as you want, and you feel free to ask any questions that you wish. I have
had my coffee company since 2003.
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