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Subject: Pitch Dark Bar Opens for Blind Dates
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Pitch Dark Bar Opens for Blind Dates
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Thu Sep 5,10:09 AM ET
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Diners at Berlin's newest restaurant cannot see what they
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are eating and have to be guided to their table by blind waiters because the
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bar is pitch black.
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The restaurant, which opened Wednesday, aims to make guests concentrate on
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senses other than sight.
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Holding on to one another, the first visitors followed waiter Roland
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Zimmermann, 33, into the dining room. Although the PhD student has been
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blind since childhood, he is the only one able to point out chairs, cutlery
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and drinks.
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"I'm putting your plate right in front of you," Zimmermann said. "I can't
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find my mouth," one voice replied out of the dark. "I wonder what this dish
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is -- Lasagne? Or some casserole?" another invisible guest said.
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In the "unsicht-Bar," which means invisible in German, diners cannot choose
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complete dishes from the menu but can only indicate whether they would like
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a fish, meat or vegetarian option.
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"We want people to have an extraordinary experience of tasting, feeling and
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smelling," said Manfred Scharbach, head of the organization for blind and
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sight-restricted people, which is running the bar.
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"People are surprised that their tongues and taste senses are taking over
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and are sending signals, which their eyes would normally have sent," he
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added.
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Of the 30 staff, 22 are blind.
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An average meal lasts about three hours and the waiters are always around to
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help, Scharnbach said.
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And at the end of the night, they will even reveal what customers have
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actually been eating.
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