{"id":3147,"date":"2021-08-10T15:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:45:13","slug":"this-restaurant-built-a-bench-for-their-employee-with-special-needs-who-desired-to-be-a-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/08\/10\/this-restaurant-built-a-bench-for-their-employee-with-special-needs-who-desired-to-be-a-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"This Restaurant Built a Bench for Their Employee with Special Needs Who Desired to be a Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A restaurant in Virginia has come up with a unique way to accomplish one of its best employee\u2019s desires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen life gives you lemons, you make lemonade,\u201d wrote the restaurant on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=565712251506700&amp;id=107151960696067\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jordyn\u2019s Deli in Falling Waters is a special kind of restaurant that supports their special needs employment. One of their employees, Angelina, desired to be a cook and when the owners of the restaurant found out, they built a new bench to overcome one of the obstacles, so Angelina could be the Deli\u2019s cook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou find a way to make it happen,\u201d they wrote. \u201cYou move a couple pieces of equipment around so she can reach. You take some wood, screws and the skills of a local craftsman (her grandfather ????) to make her a perch. And you step back to watch her live out a dream. Angelina&#8217;s Reubens. Nothing any better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant has since received a lot of positive notes and is being celebrated for hiring employees with special needs.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Deli\u2019s website, employees with special needs receive the same treatment as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir work provides a true benefit and we are stronger because of their contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A restaurant in Virginia has come up with a unique way to accomplish one of its best employee\u2019s desires. \u201cWhen life gives you lemons, you make lemonade,\u201d wrote the restaurant on Facebook. Jordyn\u2019s Deli in Falling Waters is a special kind of restaurant that supports their special needs employment. One of their employees, Angelina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3480,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/revisions\/3480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}