Curb cuts (also known as curb ramps) enable people who use wheelchairs or other mobility devices to have ready access to restaurants and bars. Are restaurants and bars required to remove barriers posed by sidewalk curbs?ДЄ. If it is not readily achievable to provide any accessible spaces, a restaurant or bar could consider providing valet parking as an alternative method of providing access. If it is not readily achievable to comply with the ADAAG standards for the number and dimensions of accessible spaces, a restaurant or bar must provide as many spaces as readily achievable and of readily achievable dimensions. The ADAAG also specifies a formula for determining the appropriate number of accessible spaces which must be followed if it is readily achievable to do so. The spaces must comply with the dimensions specified in the ADAAG if it is readily achievable to meet those standards. These responsibilities may be allocated between the landlord and tenant in the lease of other contract. If a restaurant or bar is a tenant, responsibility for providing accessible parking rests with both the landlord and the tenant.

If a restaurant or bar owns and operates the parking lot, it must provide accessible parking if it is readily achievable to do so. Are restaurants and bars that offer parking required to provide accessible parking spaces for people with mobility impairments? If such parking is required how many spaces must be provided?ДЄ. If you have a TTY, be sure to list their telephone number followed by вЂњVoice/TTYвЂќ in any publications or advertisements to signify that customers can communicate with them by voice or TTY. Training should be undertaken as soon as possible because at least 40 states already offer some type of relay service.ДЇor your information, however, a TTY is relatively inexpensive, usually costing about $275 and would be welcome service for customers with hearing or speech impairments. Handling these calls may take longer because an operator at the relay system will be receiving typed communications from the caller and will also be using the relay system equipment to type communications from the restaurant or bar staff person to the caller. Restaurants and bars can ensure effective communication by telling staff who answer the telephone to anticipate incoming calls through the relay services.

Only those businesses that allow their customers to make outgoing calls on more than an incidental convenience basis must provide TTYs. Operators employed by relay systems will relay communications between TTY-users and people using conventional telephones. For making calls to or receiving calls from customers with hearing or speech impairments who use TTYs, restaurants will be able to rely on the relay systems that telephone companies must establish by July 26, 1993. Are restaurants and bars required to have TTYs (TeleTYpewriters)?ДЄ.

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