Loud Music in public places like resturants..
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17798)
United States
December 2, 2007 7:54pm CST
WHY!?!? I can't hardly stand to go out to eat anymore because they music is so loud! You can't understand a word being said/sang and the backup music is so volital it just literally blares into oblivion! It is so loud you have to talk very loudly to the person across from you and if you are talking loudly, so are the tables behind you and in front of you and to the side..... Everyone is talking so loudly to be heard over the loud music and the whole resturant is just a enclosed bunch of noise - how can anyone eat like that! YOu can't even hear the waitress when she says something to you and often she asks to have the order repeated or repeats it herself cause she can't hear you order. It is so stupid! When I go in I ask if they could please turn the music down for an hour while I am there (nicely ask) and they tell me it is at a set volume and they can't change it. Malarky! They just dont' want to! There is always a volume setting. Today I went to Applebee's and asked when she sat us if they could turn it down and she said she'd ask the manager! Okay, fine, but after a few minutes there was no change. I gave it time but still nothing. The waitress had to ask us both to repeat our order, I asked her to repeat the offers she mentioned and when the waitress brought our food, i asked again if they could turn down the music some. She never returned except to leave the check. I think they turned it down a little,ever so slightly but not near enough that I still didn't have to almost shout to my husband across the table. And I got tired of hearing the people behind me all but shouting to each other and the people in front one booth away = heard all about their weekend! I can understand soft background music or romantic music for ambience, but this loud, blaring, volital music blaring it just out of hand. I was so mad about it, I didn't leave a tip and wrote on the reciept to the waitress, "tell your manager that some don't like this loud blaring music and when asked to turn it down, it would be a good idea to do so to retain customers. We wont' be back again because it is so very loud I didn't enjoy my meal at all and certainly didn't like having to repeat everything when orderig and then wonder if my meal would be what I wanted, simply because the music is so loud we coldn't hear each other. I also will not be recommending Applebee's because of the music". It was just that bad. I usualy tip fine, but this time I just didn't want to tip when it was so hard to enjoy the meal.
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6 responses
@drannhh (15219)
• United States
3 Dec 07
Lately, myLot has been eating my responses but then when I create a new one, the old one shows up right above it. Dunno what is happening, as this never occurred before. So here goes, AGAIN...I hate loud music anywhere. We love where we live, but there is an all night fast food place nearby and one guy used to come through for take-out about the same time every night...just a few minutes after hubby and I went to bed. We called him Thumper because the so-called music was just annoying boom-boom-boom and he must have really thought he was cool.
When we are thinking of going into a restaurant, if you can hear the music spilling out onto the sidewalk, that means we don't go in. I have never asked anyone to turn the music down, but we have walked out of a few places before ordering once we realized that the restaurant was going to try to kill our ears. If music was so loud I couldn't hear the waiter, I wouldn't ask him to repeat, I would just walk out right them. I don't think being assaulted by loud music is good for the digestion while eating. Lately we went to a nice place that had a pianist playing lovely soft music from time to time and that was just fine.
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
3 Dec 07
There are always those people coming onto trains and buses and blasting music so loudly as if they own the place.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
4 Dec 07
Even in their cars - they pull up beside you and that music is blaring and you hear it in your car with the windows rolled up and while their car is coming up to yours! Probably alot of hearing problems in the future for this country!!!!
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
3 Dec 07
I have come across such situations too. Normally I will just sit it out and make do with it.
But I have a friend who will get the waiter/waitress over and ask for the volume to be turned down. Normally they will oblige - but somehow after a while, the volume would go up again (probably a counter request by another customer or maybe the manager's preference).
Them she will repeat, and the volume goes up again (lol). By that time, dessert's over and we are ready to go.:P
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
4 Dec 07
I so seldom get to go anymore, so I think I will just walk out next time. No sense spending lots of money and be miserable while spending it.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
3 Dec 07
This is highly objectionable. One should not think the entrepreneurs are fond of music. they are trying to attract more customers to their restaurants by announcing their presence through music.
This will not help them, because many people do not like loud noise. Therefore the restaurants should be told to play soft music to be heard within restaurant premises, then the ambience will suit many to have a lunch or snak.
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
3 Dec 07
You'd think people would say something, but they don't. Road rage is common out here if you get mad, but speaking up about music in a resturant, no one does it. Why? Who knows, but how stupid they are. People apparently just deal with it for the hour they are there. I can't belive everyone likes it enough that no one complains.
@joey_matthews (8354)
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3 Dec 07
I don't get why people can't just be polite and considerate. Well, these days I do know why but it's no point pretending it's going to change until someone teaches the young and those who do it that it's not on.
Kudos,
~Joey
P.s This annoys me
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@smilemou (39)
• China
3 Dec 07
Some people always like to bring their love against people,like their favorit songs ,food and so on,just like what the resturant do.They even don't care about people's feeling.Sometimes we need slience for a pleasant meal.
Just never be back again if they don't improve themselves:)
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@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
4 Dec 07
But dont' the restarunts owners think about this? I mean, I guess they don't care as resturants are always full, but still, it is so loud surely they... okay forget I said that. They do it to distract people from realizing how much they are spending !
@myloveforyou87 (29)
• United States
3 Dec 07
Whenever I go out to a reastaraunt and the music is too loud I ask them to turn it down. And usually they do. If they don't.. I simply go somewhere else.
@coffeebreak (17798)
• United States
4 Dec 07
It's like thsi everywhere. In the grocery store the other week, I just couldn't take it anymore and left the cart sitting there and walked out! I rearranged my shopping needs, and went back in a week later and got just a few things and went in the early morning, didn't see as loud and I wasn't there as long.
