Students with special needs run top-notch cafe
May 3rd, 2008
From the Detroit Free Press, a combination feature and restaurant review of the K.C. Cafe in Pontiac, Michigan, a lunchtime restaurant staffed by 12 cognitively impaired young adults with autism, Down syndrome and other learning challenges.
Special education teacher Harriett Silverman (left, center) set it up with the goal of teaching the students skills that will help them land and keep real jobs.
The food is praised as healthy, delicious and reasonably priced, and health inspectors are impressed by the crew’s use of proper food-handling techniques. “I’m so proud of our kids and what they can do,” Silverman says. “I just wish more places would take a chance and give them jobs.”


