Why Do Restaurants Have To Be So Loud?

One good thing You don't have to go back there if you think the music was too loud. I will not have even order if i hear loud music when we go out to eat.

@looeyville this is one of my favourite things to complain about. It’s particularly irritating when loud, inappropriate music is played at breakfast in a hotel - Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna … I used to ask for it to be turned down; my wife now tells them to turn it off. All that is needed is a low murmur of conversation and the gentle song of teaspoons on saucers.

I wonder if they think this will keep people from lingering, and thus they can get more customers in and out. I mean, who wants to stick around when you can’t hear a conversation.

I've never been to a place where the music was that loud.

Music should only be loud in a place where people are dancing not eating and talking,

We went to a place in Milstadt once, called Spike's, where the music was SO loud, we LITERALLY had to text each other at the table. Part of the eating out experience isn't just about the food. It's about the company, and the company doesn't matter if you can't communicate.

I don't really like background music in a restaurant! I have noticed a lot of places getting louder and louder. It's bad enough in a pub or club but restaurants, for me, are for social occasions. It's hard to really socialise when you're having to shout over whatever someone else decides everyone must listen to at a deafening volume. I was recently in a lovely old-fashioned pub. They had some music on but it was at a sensible level.

We were having a party at a Planet Hollywood in Nashville many decades ago. The music was headache-inducing, ear-piercing loud. We asked if they could lower the volume in just our party room and they refused, saying it was company policy to have it at that level. They went out of business a few years later, wonder why….

We've complained about TR music before. The girl at the reception desk turned it down.

Same with the convenience store near in our house. I don't like music in convenience store because I can't hear what the cashier says.