Quiznos Restaurant to Employ Students With Autism

January 13, 2015 A newly-opened Quiznos sandwich shop on Texas Tech s campus will provide more than just food: it will provide valuable work experience to young adults on the autism spectrum. Learn how Music And Rhythm Can Help Your Child’s Autism – CLICK HERE The corporation partnered with the College of Education s Burkhart Center for Autism Education & Research to bring the shop to the campus. The school s Hospitality Services staffers will manage the restaurant, but most of the line employees will be Burkhart students, all of whom fall somewhere on the autism spectrum. After Janice Magness, the director of the Burkhart Center’s Transition Academy, approached Hospitality Services to build a coffee shop in the new building — which would give students a place to work where faculty could be close by and help as needed — the idea expanded. Hospitality Services managing director Kirk Rodriguez wanted to provide something more expansive than a coffee shop, since it would only
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