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Vigilantfox85 ,

You guys don’t like the terrible cover band that comes and blasts their rockin tune?

Taleya ,

Talking customers take longer to gtfo their tables so they can stick someone else in .

AnnaFrankfurter ,

They blast loud because if you start talking with your friends and eat slowly and spend a lot of time their eating little.

hogmomma ,

It’s not you. If I’m at a RESTAURANT and can’t hear my friends, I leave. I won’t spend money at a place I have to yell to be heard (unless there’s a band I specifically want to see or I’m at a bar, but even bars have limits).

Bwaz ,

Often because the staff is bored silly and want music to get through their minimum wage shift.

dubyakay ,

They’ve said restaurants though, not fast food joints.

DerisionConsulting ,

Correct. A lot of restaurants pay staff that can get tips minimum wage, since they can make $100+ of extra income during the shift.

Some backward countries even have a lower minimum wage for people who can get tips.

pip ,

This is exactly why during my solo shift I turn off the music completely. I want silence. Beautiful, delicious silence.

JimmyBigSausage OP ,

Bless you my sweet baby child.

DarkCloud ,

It’s too loud most places.

StaySquared ,

Trashy people like loud music while eating at a restaurant? At best it’s a college town? Or maybe a beach town? That would make sense.

ICastFist ,
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I personally avoid such places. There are many who make live music a selling point, which always plays super loud to the point where any chat can only happen by shouting into someone else’s ear. How people like this is beyond me

laughterlaughter ,

Pro-tip: Even in a loud place you can (and should!) speak with your normal voice (e.g. no shouting) when having your mouth an inch or two from the other person’s ear. They will hear you just fine, even if you can’t hear yourself.

NutWrench ,
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Apparently, these restaurants want to make your dining experience unpleasant, so you won’t linger over your meal. The sooner you leave, the sooner they can replace you with another paying customer. You probably shouldn’t give these places your business.

tetris11 ,
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exactly, hence why coffee shops in particular play the same three obnoxious Christmas songs on repeat during the season. They don’t want you to stay, they want you pay and leave.

I will say that this tactic is just forcing people to invest in better headphones, but I lament that we’re now in an auditory arms race for merely existing in a public space

NutWrench ,
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“Simply . . . Having . . . a Wonderful Christmas Time!”

/sorry

laughterlaughter ,

This could be solved by a system of reservations. You know… “Ok, one coffee and a sandwich. You have three seating choices: 15 minutes, 30 minutes and 1 hour. Which one do you want? 30 minutes? Ok! Here’s your hourglass.”

tetris11 ,
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everyone would pick the 4 hour sofa slot though

laughterlaughter ,

Those scenarios can be solved. From “4-hour sofa slots are reserved for groups of three or more people” to “Sofas are reserved to 1-hour max.”

In the end, as it is now, people are overstaying anyway.

tetris11 ,
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Let them. Either provide public spaces for people to just chill, or let them spend the entire day at a coffee shop after buying a coffee.

I’m sick of this “pay-to-live” society we’ve built around us.

laughterlaughter , (edited )

I… actually agree with you. It would be nice to have a cozy indoors public space. Sort of like an “indoors park.” But you’ll have to yell at your city hall reps, not a small business owner who, like us, also has to make a living.

tetris11 ,
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If the city provided a nice public space, I would happily just buy a coffee to go and then to chill there

laughterlaughter ,

I’ll write to my major this week!

EvacuateSoul ,

So they’re all gone and isn’t an option til someone leaves, first come first served.

tetris11 ,
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“Hey homeless guy, I’ll pay you 10 dollars if you get in line early at this store and claim the 4 hour sofa until my friends come a few hours later.”

JimmyBigSausage OP ,

At one restaurant this week a woman was playing and watching a video on her phone very loudly, oblivious to bothering everyone, and a foodworker came and asked her to turn it down. The woman replied, “You can here THAT?!” She turned it down and the foodworker went back to her station screaming orders are ready out to other customers. The video-watcher proceeded to walk around and stand near people’s tables to watch her video.
What is going on with this world?

tetris11 ,
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I think the world has become decidedly louder, and people having TV on in the background all day every day has desensitized them to the idea that sound travels further than they think. I genuinely believe her surprise that she could be heard.

Vigilantfox85 ,

Was that my mom?! She had all her volume for everything turned up to 11.

TheBat ,
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That’s what I have done. Entered and then walked right out without ordering anything.

brygphilomena ,

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that so many places don’t adjust the volume properly to the amount of people in the place. If I go to a sports bar near me for happy hour, they have the music the same volume as when a big game is on and the place is packed.

JimmyBigSausage OP ,

It seems the music is set for the staff instead of the customers too.

HonkTonkWoman ,

“Turn it up loud enough we don’t have to hear these assholes complain”

You may have just nailed the motivation.

schnurrito ,

Because you choose to keep going to restaurants where they play loud music. No idea why you’re doing that

menemen ,
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In some crowded places they do it, so it doesn’t feel like a central station.

Timely_Jellyfish_2077 ,

In India, restaurants generally play smooth music at near audible levels.

xilliah ,

I once read that it’s an epigenetic thing and it can be found across the animal kingdom. Some animals are born more sensitive and others less and this is important for the species or social group as a whole. This actually happens on a neuron level.

The less sensitive kind needs to actively search out stimulation, whereas you can leave the more sensitive one alone with a flower and they’ll be a happy camper.

And there’s so much more to it, for example developmental. Have you ever noticed the difference in sound levels in people’s homes? In some places it’s just like a warzone. TV on max, dogs barking, kids screaming. Imagine growing up with that. Like a fish in water.

And then there’s all the processing disorders…

You can train yourself though if you value it. I enjoy encounters and it bothered me a lot, so I just kept going to busy cafés and bars until my brain finally got the memo. It keeps surprising me how my hearing has become like a sort of precision microphone.

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