If you order in sign language at Puzzles SG café in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, you get a 10 per cent discount. Even if you do not know how to sign, there is an instruction board at the counter to encourage you to give it a try.
Miss Suzana Slemat and Miss Shazlina Sulaiman hope the novel incentive will raise awareness of the challenges of the deaf community in Singapore and help people understand and appreciate sign language.
They also employ deaf workers at the cafe and hope to promote inclusivity through the eatery, which will be featured in the fourth instalment of The Best of You movement.
Almost 60 per cent of the cafe’s customers use sign language when ordering. Some regulars can even sign their orders from memory, said Miss Shazlina.
The cafe is just starting to break even, and its founders have plans to run it for at least two years at Ngee Ann before considering expanding to other tertiary institutions.
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Source: The Straits Times, 4 September 2017