Disability in restaurants

Illustration by Alice Torres Tailfer

Here are a couple of other restaurants around the world that employ people with disabilities and handicaps:

• Bitty and Beau’s Coffee in North Carolina almost exclusively employs people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, like Down syndrome, autism, or cerebral palsy.

• According to the World Health Organisation, “around 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss”. Some of them work at Café Signes in Paris, a cafe entirely staffed by deaf or hearing impaired employees.

• Lastly, the store-café Katimavik in Lyon sells a range of artisanal pieces made by people with intellectual handicaps, whom it’s parent organisation, l’Arche, helps socialize with able people.