Restaurants should offer large-print menus for seniors

When I dine out in restaurants, I occasionally feel a bit saddened to sense that many of the senior citizens dining there find it very difficult to read and comprehend the contents of the menu.

"The type size used on this restaurant's menu is much too small for me to read," as a senior citizen customer might understandably complain to a dining companion inside a restaurant in Austin. "This entire menu here is like Greek to me; and I was not among those who ever studied Greek."

At the very least, I personally feel that many of these restaurants with difficult-to-read menus should offer senior-citizen customers the option of a large-print, easy-to-read version of the menu.

In this way, a restaurant in Texas can promulgate its earnest desire to be as customer-friendly and accommodating as possible toward persons of all ages---including an 80-year-old diner who complains that attempting to decipher the meaning of the fine print found on restaurant menus of today in our state is a baffling, mind-boggling, confusing, bewildering, and humiliating experience for that senior citizen.

"At the very least, restaurants with small-print menu should provide all senior citizen customers here with magnifying glasses that they can use at their dining table to attempt to figure out what that very complicated and cryptic menu is actually offering as actual menu-order options," an 80-year-old diner might well point out in a polite signed letter to the Austin-based Texas Restaurant Association.