Restaurants playing music too loud

lemontart

not alone and like op I have left establishments not just eateries where the music is too loud for normal conversation

barryboris

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Is one of my irritations. When I go out for a meal with friends, relatives or colleagues, I like chatting with them. In establishments where the music is too loud, it's annoying as cannot hear each other and the waiters

On a few occasions, about three of us have approached the staff requesting the music to be lowered in volume and get the responses 'it's what other customers want'.

One pub chain, Yates, well the one we go to, the staff can change the volume in different areas.

We do not like music so loud that we cannot hear ourselves think and need to shout.

On two occasions we have left restaurants because the loud music and the staff deny it's too loud. Both times we have left when we haven't ordered anything.

When you play music at home when eating, you put it at a volume which is comfortable for the ear.

Is it just me and my friends etc that find loud music in restaurants annoying?

Surely the solution is to attend establishments which don't play loud music, and for the ones you have attended, simply not to go back.

barryboris

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

there are health and safety aspects to having excessive noise in a work place and place where children very young to elderly people have access. background music is just that in the background where it can be heard but not unbearable.


if I had to shout at someone whilst having a meal in a restaurant that's only half a foot across the table, I wouldn't be comfortable and would expect that staff when requested, turn it down to a level where shouting isn't the norm to have to order my meal.


I have also been in a highstreet sports clothing outlet where they regularly blast the music I'd rather not listen to eminem swearing, bass punching my chest because the staff love that type of music that loud and not giving a damn abou the children that are walking around and asking mummy that man on the radio said pu$$y what does that mean?

What utter nonsense. It's not for the staff to turn down music on the basis that one miserable git doesn't like it. It's for you to attend other venues in future that are more to your taste.

DaveTheMus

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Is one of my irritations. When I go out for a meal with friends, relatives or colleagues, I like chatting with them. In establishments where the music is too loud, it's annoying as cannot hear each other and the waiters

On a few occasions, about three of us have approached the staff requesting the music to be lowered in volume and get the responses 'it's what other customers want'.

One pub chain, Yates, well the one we go to, the staff can change the volume in different areas.

We do not like music so loud that we cannot hear ourselves think and need to shout.

On two occasions we have left restaurants because the loud music and the staff deny it's too loud. Both times we have left when we haven't ordered anything.

When you play music at home when eating, you put it at a volume which is comfortable for the ear.

Is it just me and my friends etc that find loud music in restaurants annoying?

Yates'......restaurant.........really?

Trying going somewhere that doesn't serve boil-in-the-bag and the atmosphere might be more reserved.

knightstyle

I thought it was just me being a miserable old git but I also find that pubs serving food have the music too loud. But a decent restaurant will turn it down in your area if you ask.

Money-Saving-King

Mylo_The_Moggy wrote: »

My local Morrisons cafe are prone to playing music loud. And the tannoy announcements when you are sat there are even worse.
Annoys the hell outa me when you are sat trying to enjoy a bite to eat & all you get is music blasting out & the customer service voices booming out.
Have seen many ppl complain about it but nothing ever gets done about it. :mad:

I've got to admit it would be a bizarre place to go if you want a peaceful meal. It would be like choosing to eat at a railway station.

saterkey

and they wonder why they are losing custom, most people would like to hear the other person whilst eating a reasonable lowish volume should be taken as normal in a restaurant. Fitness first is just incessant noise, okay in the main hub of machines, but too loud that you cant hear your own music over it, its really loud in the changing rooms, and I was the only one in the caf! area, when the chap turned it up and the tv was also on full blast behind me, I was so glad to come out of there and breathed a sigh of relief when I sat in the car in quiet. I have since left, it was just not enjoyable at all.

Stephb1986_2

A lot of pubs I've eaten in recently do play music at a level that you can't hear the people your having a meal with. My mum who is partially deaf really struggles in situations like this along with the majority of the family who come for a meal with us.

We always ask for them to turn down the music which either they don't or they turn it up. We've stopped going to a lot of the pubs because of this, your talking family pubs not ones with dancefloors etc, it's a shame really because they are losing out on repeat custom by leaving the music like it is, all we want it a nice meal and to be able to catch up with each other by being able to have a conversation.

silverwhistle

topdaddy wrote: »

Go to a restaurant. If the place is too loud for you, you aint the clientile wanted. Same for shops. Some on here would have a heart attack in a hollister shop.

Heh? They don't want our money? More fool them. As it happens I don't go into that sort of restaurant, but that's mainly budget and quality of food. From what I've seen them seem to turn up the music to disguise the fact that the place is half empty and make up for the lack of 'buzz'. Decent places don't need it.

londonTiger

if you want a quiet dinner, go to a place that is wholly a restaurant and not a bar/club that serves food. Yates is primarily a bar that has decided to serve food so they can keep the punters on their premisis and rake more money than have people coming and going throughout the course of the evening to have dinner elsewhere.

There are plenty of places where you can go for dinner that is reasonably quiet. But most restaurant these days have some music playing in the evenings otherwise it's just a lot of crowd noise because people do get very chatty during dinner after a few drinks.