I agree with all the comments about intrusive music particularly in restaurants. Where can we go to avoid smoke and music? If it was our choice to eat at that establishment we would prefer an outside table because the sound would be more dispersed, but the chances are we would be surrounded by smokers. My experience was only momentary of course whereas the diners will have it throughout their meal. Just cleaning and preparation were going on and I don’t have a problem with the staff having music while they work but I don’t see why passing pedestrians have to endure it. I was walking past it at around nine thirty one morning recently and noise was blaring out from the loudspeakers even though the place wasn’t actually open and there were obviously no customers within range. I noticed a chain restaurant that has put loudspeakers on the outside of the premises to feed the music to diners at the outside tables. It certainly is getting worse, Lindsay, as more and more restaurants and other premises get signed up by the firms that market the sound services. Yes, I’m in my sixties, and find shopping and restaurant visits an ordeal.’ĭo you feel that restaurants are getting it right in their choice of music and the volume it’s played at? All my friends hate all this, and it’s odd that businesses do not seem to recognise the growing ‘grey’ market. ‘Restaurants pack in tables too closely, and the music adds to the volume of conversation. Sometimes music is all part of the occasion, and perhaps having local music played in a “foreign” restaurant is part of the experience? Perhaps as well as compulsory “scores on the doors” restaurants should also declare “music played here” so you know where to avoid (or frequent).’ Listen to customers, not just the musicĪnne pleaded with restaurants to take more notice of their potential customers: ‘I wonder if people who went to the Savoy for afternoon tea and were serenaded by a “Palm Court” orchestra complained? What about violinists, guitarists and accordionists who wander round restaurants serenading the diners. On the other hand, some readers felt music added to the experience of dining out, as Malcolm R argued: I have no objection to background music in shops and restaurants as long as it stays just that.’ Is music in restaurants just part of the experience? We mentioned this to staff but the volume was not reduced. However the evening was marred by constant and loud ‘background’ Mexican-style music. The food was good and staff friendly and helpful. ‘My family and I visited Chiquito, a Mexican-style restaurant. Some places are happy to do so, in others the staff look at me as if I’m asking something totally unreasonable.’Ī.J Herridge found music so loud it ruined an otherwise enjoyable evening:
I often politely ask if the music can be turned down. ‘Often it’s too loud and, as someone who is going deaf and suffers from permanent tinnitus, the addition of music makes it more difficult to hear what others are saying. In a restaurant or pub you are there for pleasure so noise pollution is even more annoying.’ ‘In a shop you can quickly get what you need and escape.
Worse than music in shops?įor some of you, music in restaurants and pubs is even worse than music in shops, as Philip Vaughan explains: What was more bizarre was that the restaurant was nearly empty. For two reasons I loved the song and it wasn’t TOO LOUD!īut the previous week, I was eating out with a friend and could hardly hear a word they said because of how loud the music was. If you’d asked me then, I’d have said I’m all in favour of music in restaurants. In Starbucks the other day I heard the song ‘When I fall in love’ by The Skatalites for the first time. I guess it depends a lot on whether we’re talking about violinists or pounding sound systems. Music in shops is a pet hate for many Which? Convo readers – judging by the vast majority of the 1,500 comments we’ve had on the subject.
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