Actually, there is a psychology of music. It can be used to set the tone and convey moods. Frenetic will cause people to buy more.
But sadly, we don't need to be deafened by shopping. Owners don't understand enough about the psychology to use music well.
I have often sat in restaurants and thought it would take very little to make the rooms quieter. The easiest would just be to add some carpet to the walls.
While you are banning things I would add televisions that no one is watching to the list. It is one thing to go to a bar to watch the "Big Game" but if the sound is off, why bother.
Yes, why loud music if the crowd is already loud? I can understand not wanting silence, but the music can be turned down or even off as the customers turn up.
I have walked out of restaurants that threatened to give me a headache.
It does not seem to me to be too hard a programming problem to make a sort of thermostatic mixing valve for audio. A decibel meter and a Raspberry Pi computer server and a simple if [decibels] > x then lower [music volume] type program would do pretty well to solve both the too noisy and too quiet problems.
But ... But there could be jazz. Why would you want there to be not-jazz when there could be jazz coming softly over the PA? Some sounds enhance quiet instead of breaking it.
I saw one article that said people drink more when they can't talk as easily - see, if you get into a fun, animated conversation, you might nurse your drink along, and only realize it's empty when you hit a lull.
It would be interesting to check if that seems to hold out - bar-tab heavy places being louder than other restaurants.
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But sadly, we don't need to be deafened by shopping. Owners don't understand enough about the psychology to use music well.
I have often sat in restaurants and thought it would take very little to make the rooms quieter. The easiest would just be to add some carpet to the walls.
While you are banning things I would add televisions that no one is watching to the list. It is one thing to go to a bar to watch the "Big Game" but if the sound is off, why bother.
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I have walked out of restaurants that threatened to give me a headache.
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In any case, quiet music is inaudible to me when there's any kind of other noise. Which sometimes solves the problem, for me ...
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It would be interesting to check if that seems to hold out - bar-tab heavy places being louder than other restaurants.