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Menus That Talk uses show to be heard.(Foodservice)
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June 23, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Mary E. Morrison
Menus That Talk, a Taylannas Inc. company, is a provider of handheld, audio-enabled menus. The devices, which are the size of a DVD case, "speak" a menu in the language a users selects and are also labeled in Braille. Susan Perry, president-CEO of Menus That Talk, got the idea for the device in 2006 after dining with her niece, who has macular degeneration and cannot read menus.
To get the word out about its prototype, Menus That Talk decided to exhibit at the National Restaurant Association's Hotel-Motel Show in Chicago last May. With the limited budget of a startup, the company's 10-foot-by-10-foot booth was its only marketing effort at the ...
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Menus That Talk uses show to be heard.(Vertical Insight: Food Service)
B to B;
January 14, 2008 ;
MORRISON, MARY E.;
434 words
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South Carolina restaurants resist mandate to list nutritional data on...
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PR Newswire;
November 17, 1998 ;
391 words
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Online;
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787 words
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Computer age menus. (use of desktop publishing to produce restaurant...
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June 12, 1989 ;
Kass, Monica;
787 words
...COMPUTER AGE MENUS Afternoons used to find Michela Larson hunched over her desk, hand lettering menus for Michela's Restaurant in Cambridge, Mass...mistakes in the menu. Plus, I had a lot more than menus to work up. Larson hired a designer to typeset...
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A feast of menus
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787 words
......people who have seen his sign "Nationwide Menus" have stopped in thinking it was a restaurant...laughing. Pare has developed Nationwide Menus into a small international business that...annual sales. He and his 11 employees create menus and covers for menus, wine lists and customer...
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