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| McD's sued for "discrimination" against blind people at drive-thru | |
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| lucash | Jun 2 2016, 03:36 PM Post #41 |
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So, I'm curious (and maybe i missed it in the article)...but is this person 'legally' blind, or full on blind (as in, accident, birth, etc)? Because the first thing that I was concerned about was someone who is *blind* driving a car. Either way, hope this pans out for all parties involved. |
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| lucash | Jun 2 2016, 03:37 PM Post #42 |
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Nor is it always enforced. I know of at least a couple places where they should, per law, have wheel chair access, but do not. |
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| Opinionated | Jun 2 2016, 04:54 PM Post #43 |
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Here is what typically happens in my state. The business goes about doing their thing without wheelchair access until, one day, someone in a wheelchair comes along and sees that they don't have wheelchair access. They then contact their lawyer, the lawyer sends out a letter threatening to sue unless the business either a) provides wheelchair access which can be quite expensive, or b) pays a "settlement" to make the law suit go away. Many times the business pays the "settlement". My understanding is that there are a small number of handicapped individuals who manage to make a decent living this way, by hunting up businesses without wheelchair access. One story I read, I found particularly striking, was about a tack and saddle store that was being sued because their counters weren't low enough. Like those in wheelchairs are big customers of horse riding equipment. |
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| Robertr2000 | Jun 2 2016, 04:57 PM Post #44 |
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| Demagogue | Jun 2 2016, 05:00 PM Post #45 |
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The walk up window would cost more from an insurance point of view due to the fact that it is an opening where you will hand food through to someone on foot. When you are in a car you can not easily exit the car to get at the person in the drive through window. If you were on foot outside the window you could. Possibly if you installed some kind of bullet proof setup with a very small drawer type opening as seen in high risk gas stations it would not effect your insurance. The exterior walk up would cause the increase as opposed to the standard interior one because it is open at 2AM in the morning and the standard lobby stations are not. You would need extra staff because typically there are only 2-4 staff on that shift. More often than not it is only 2 or 3. Somebody makes the food and the order taker is also the person who bags the food and accepts payment from the customer. If you added a new exterior walk up window it could not be in the same location as the drive through window. This would necessitate it being either on the complete opposite side of the kitchen or out in the lobby somewhere. One person could not take order, accept payment for orders and fill orders at both locations. Not without doubling or tripling the time it takes to fill each order. You can stand firm on the solution being easy all you want but the real world of profits and losses the easiest solution will be to cease post lobby hour operation on all locations that are not already open 24 hours per day in the lobby or profitable enough in the early AM to justify opening the lobby 24/7. . Edited by Demagogue, Jun 2 2016, 05:01 PM.
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| Demagogue | Jun 2 2016, 05:04 PM Post #46 |
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Here is a really good, recent example of what you are talking about. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/st-augustine-inn-owner-sued-by-serial-ada-lawsuit-filer/197564987 The kicker on this one is that they guy suing is not really handicapped as far as anyone can tell but the owner of the business actually is physically handicapped. Go figure. |
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