Talk about unprecedentedly awesome! A Starbucks barista used sign language to take a deaf women's order through a drive-thru window!
Rebecca King was surprised and ecstatic when she pulled up to a Starbucks drive-thru window and a barista named Katie Wyble appeared on the digital screen. Katie quite effortlessly signed back to her - completing her order.
King was so shocked she returned the next day to the Starbucks in St. Augustine, Florida and got the entire exchange on video. The viral video was uploaded to Facebook with the caption "Starbucks! This is what I'm talking about! Share it away! We can change the world!"
"It is a big deal to (the) deaf community that Starbucks has one now. Nowhere else has that!" King told NBC affiliate WTLV in Jacksonville. "We all want to have that at every drive-thru in the world."
It very well seems possible. The awesome video has been viewed over 9 million times and shared over 240,000 times.
In the comments section, Facebook users cannot stop raving about how great it was for Starbucks to have this feature at their establishment.
Lynda Todd "That is AWESOME!!! Way to go Starbucks!"
Alexander Christopher Brown "Too freaking cool!"
Others are hoping for this feature to become more widespread.
Tru Chainz "I work at Panera we need one of these lol fancy"
Kidd Escalara "see this is what im talking about. champ! All franchise should have it."
Wes Arey "Really cool, they should do this at all Starbucks, at least the ones in towns where there are state deaf & blind schools."
Wyble is a communication student at the University of North Florida. She told First Coast News she has been taking sign language since grade school. She continued to take American Sign Language as a foreign language in high school and took advantage of studying it further in college.
"I'm glad there's more awareness for deaf culture and the deaf community,'' Wyble told WTLV. "To see this come to light and actually be a part of it, I feel so blessed."
"I'm so happy the deaf community is finally getting some exposure," Wyble added.