Starbucks opens first sign language store in US
But on Tuesday, Witzofsky finally didn’t have to struggle to make her order understood.
US coffee giant Starbucks opened its first signing store in the United States in northeast Washington near the campus of Gallaudet, the world’s only university with an entire curriculum designed to accommodate the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
At the store, all staff — most of them deaf or hard-of-hearing themselves — are required to communicate with customers using sign language.
The cafe is modeled after a store that opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2016.
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