[Nfbf-l] FW: [fcb-l] Fw: [leadership] Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service

[Joanne King]

First of all they don't serve walk ups.  Secondly, a friend of mine who is
sighted went up to the drive through window  and she wasn't served either.
So, he wasn't served just because he is blind.  
I hope McDonalds don't pay.  The blind doesn't need special services like
that.  If he found the window, why didn't he find the door.  

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Interesting 

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Subject: [leadership] Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him
Drive-Thru Service


Blind Louisiana Man Sues McDonald's for Refusing Him Drive-Thru Service
  
 byALEX JOHNSON
  
 McDonald's has until mid-June to respond to a federal lawsuit accusing it
of discrimination for refusing to serve blind customers who walk up during
late-night
 hours when only the drive-thru window is open.
  
 The plaintiff, Scott Magee of Metairie, Louisiana, said in court documents
filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago that he was laughed at and turned
away
 from the drive-thru window at a McDonald's in the New Orleans suburb late
at night last August. It wasn't the first time that had happened, Magee
alleged.
  
 Many McDonald's restaurants nationwide continue service through their
drive-thru windows late at night after the main restaurant entrance has
closed.
  
 group start The drive-thru window at a McDonald's restaurant in
Springfield, Illinois. AP -- file 
 IMAGE: McDonald's drive-thru The drive-thru window at a McDonald's
restaurant in Springfield, Illinois.AP -- file
 group end
  
 But the company's policy is not to serve pedestrians at the drive-thru, and
blind customers can't drive, so they're effectively barred from patronizing
 the world's largest fast food chain by revenue, according to the suit,
which seeks class-action status for all blind Americans who may have had
difficulty
 ordering at McDonald's.
  
 "While McDonald's sighted customers can independently browse, select, and
pay for products at Defendant's drive-thrus without the assistance of
others,
 blind people must hope for a companion with a car or paid taxi services to
assist them in selecting and purchasing McDonald's food," according to the
suit.
  
 The suit says it wouldn't take much for the company to make its drive-thru
windows work for blind people, "given the sophistication and size of
McDonald's
 Corporation as well as the advanced technological society in which we live
today."
  
 After all, the chain recently managed to start providing all-day breakfast,
"to the awe of McDonald's aficionados everywhere," it says.
  
 The suit seeks a jury trial on its demands for "modest accommodations" to
make its services available to the blind at all times, a formal declaration
that
 McDonald's violated the Americans With Disabilities Act and unspecified
court costs and attorneys' fees.
  
 Senior U.S. District Judge Joan B. Gottschall gave McDonald's until June 17
to respond.
  
 The company's corporate office in Oak Brook, Illinois, said that as a
matter of policy, "we do not comment on pending litigation."




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