Disability - and how we deal with it - is a matter of perspective.
In the Dans le noir restaurant in London, the servers are blind and the patrons eat in the dark. Their web site (click above) describes the experience for the diners as having to trust their blind server.
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That has to be the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. I'm just not adventuresome enough to try anything that out of the ordinary, I guess. Besides, we don't eat out at night, anyway. The same meal is just too much cheaper for lunch!!
As for it being a way to appreciate what it is like to be blind, and to have to trust the blind waiter - that sounds more like something that would be appropriate at a hands on science museum, such as the one we have in Birmingham. In that context I might be very interested in trying such a thing.
Seems to me that the whole idea here is to promote a business by being "Different!" and "Trendy!" I think the explanation that it is to help people understand a little of what it's like to be blind has very little to do with it. It's a gimmick, in my estimation, nothing more, nothing less.
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