[Promotion-technology] OT: MENUS THAT TALK

[Allison Hilliker]

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> MENUS THAT TALK T -- RESTAURANT MENUS GET TABLE  SMARTS
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> Miami Company Introduces Multi-lingual, Talking Menus that are
> Customized to Restaurants' Fare
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> Blind/Visually Impaired Restaurant Patrons Now Have An Easy  Way
> To Make Menu Choices
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> Menus That TalkT  premieres at the 2007 SW Foodservice Expo;
> Dallas Convention Center: Sunday, June 24 -  Tuesday, June 26, 2007
> Booth  #2815
> Taylannas Inc. is introducing Menus That TalkT to a full house in  Dallas,
> Texas at the South West Foodservice  Expo, Sunday through Tuesday, June
> 24-26th.
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> Menus That Talk  is a compact, portable, electronic restaurant menu system
> about the size of a  DVD case that speaks to restaurant guests, describing
> selected food  items.
> What's for dinner? An  array of lighted buttons displays a restaurant's 
> menu
> categories, for example  DRINKS, APPETIZERS, SEAFOOD. Guests simply press 
> a
> button to hear descriptions  of menu fare, wine suggestions, sides and
> prices.
> Blind/Visually  Impaired?  You can now make your own meal choices rather
> than
> depend  upon your companions or the wait staff.  Most blind/visually
> impaired people can't read the Braille menus now provided by many
> restaurants,  so
> Menus That TalkT alleviates the "dining in the  dark" anxiety most 
> visually
> impaired people experience, while  making their restaurant visit much more
> enjoyable.
> ¿No habla  ingles? No problem: just press the language button for Spanish 
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> other  languages. No more squinting in dim light or turning page after 
> page
> of
> complex  printed menus. Say goodbye to awkward conferences with busy
> waiters.
> Ready to order? A Service Button visually pages your  serving person. For
> the
> blind, the buttons are also imprinted in Braille. Guests  who can't see 
> the
> button names and don't use Braille can easily browse the menu.  Tapping a
> button identifies its name; a second tap plays the  details.
> What was that again?  In noisy restaurants or for the hearing-impaired,
> Menus
> That Talk features a  detachable hand-held earphone that also interfaces
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> TeleCoil-equipped  hearing-aids.
> "Menus should be  able to communicate without being a challenge," said
> President and CEO Susan  Perry. "We're making a restaurant's entire menu
> available
> to all its  customers, and we're making it a pleasurable  experience."
> The Chicago Tribune's  Kevin Pang, covering the National  Restaurant
> Association show May 23 hailed Menus That Talk as "one of the  most
> interesting things
> we found at this week's show."
> The idea  originated in an Olive Garden restaurant where Ms. Perry was
> having
> lunch with  her niece Jessica, a pretty 23 year-old with advanced macular
> degeneration who  cannot read a menu from any distance. Jessica asked her
> aunt to
> read the menu to  her, but Susan had forgotten her reading glasses. They
> laughed about, it but  Susan thought, "Why shouldn't menus be able to
>  talk?"
> WHERE: 2007 Southwest  Foodservice Expo,  Dallas Convention  Center
> WHEN: Sunday, June 24- Tuesday, June 26,  2007.
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> More: www.menusthattalk.com
> Contacts:
> Susan Perry,  President, CEO
> 305  255-9600
> susan.perry at menusthattalk.com
> Richard Herbst
> Vice President,  Marketing, Engineering
> 305 255-9600
> Cell: 786  449-9351
> _Richard.herbst at menusthattalk.com_ 
> (mailto:Richard.herbst at menusthattalk.com)
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