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My rant of the week!

What the hell is up with restaurants today playing music so loudly that you can't talk with out everyone else in the joint hearing?

Every meal that I've had out this month has just been ruined by noise. I like loud music, loud cars, loud airplane, & loud guns. I really don't care for trying to eat a meal with the radio turned up to 11

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We dislike loud music in restaurants too, Jim... so much so that we know which restaurants are loud and avoid them.

Most here that are that loud are sports bars.
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Every time I ask them to turn the radio down, they do.

It never hurts to ask.
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Your just gettin old...

There are some restaurants that deliberately design the acoustics in the dining room to reflect the sound of conversation back down to the eating area. Makes it sound busy I guess. You have to speak very loudly to make yourself heard and makes it very difficult for an aging tradesman to pick up what people are saying.

What ever happened to a nice quiet meal out?
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I agree with you Jim, I hate it. I have asked may times to have the music turned down at a restaurant. When I can't have a simple conversation with a table of people the music is too loud.

I hate the background music played most anywhere. It is almost never what I like in music and it is usually overpowering. At Christmas time I were my headphones and listen to my music in a lot of stores. The local Lowes played 1960s children Christmas music fairly loud. I would far prefer silence.

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Pretty common around here too, but they are all to cheap to get outdoor speakers. So while the weather is good we sit outside.
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ON the other hand like last night the wife and I went to dinner where the music was live and we new the two performers. Yeah it was a little loud but we had fun and enjoyed it.
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The resturaunts probably think the loud music is what we want, because their demographic target audience is 20 somethings that come in to eat and want to stay for drinks afterwards. At 49 yrs old, the only target audience I belong to is for medical prescriptions and Buicks.
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I'm only 47 and I don't mind going out to see a performer. There's times to be loud but while I'm trying to talk with my wife or a friend I don't need to talk over the music.

There's a craft beer and Whisky place here in Fullerton that their menu reads well. Joanna and I took a guest and he's younger than us. He asked to try somewhere else due to the noise level.
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Makes it sound busy I guess. You have to speak very loudly
These types of places are sooo unique. The wife and I only go once
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Why do we need music in retail stores? Or big box stores?
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Not only that, but the obnoxious big-screen with 1000 channels of endless shyte.

After 9-12 hours of doing work on a computer, the LAST place I wish to see another screen is in my car, or while I am eating.
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Or Walmart now has overhead television sets strategically aimed at you to sell their products. It's really funny to see some gullible people standing there watching this mindless drival for minutes on end (you can almost see them being brainwashed).
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Texas Roadhouse is one of the worst around here. Mom likes the food there and every time we eat at one we ask to have the music turned down and they usually do but not much so we ask again.
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Yea, Texas Roadhouse was really loud for us about 2-3 weeks ago, I remember commenting to my wife that I couldn't hear her half the time sitting there. I think they want a young party atmosphere playing the country western dance music.
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Slodave, GF, and I went to a place to eat during NAMM-before-last.
I forget the name, but it was in the Universal Studios store-walk area. Bull-riding deal out front...

The food was decent. The music? Deafeningly loud. Like "rave" loud.
And dark enough that you couldn't see what you were eating.

Atmosphere was horrible.
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What the heck. Stopped for lunch. Wish I had brought ear plugs
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The resturaunts probably think the loud music is what we want, because their demographic target audience is 20 somethings that come in to eat and want to stay for drinks afterwards. At 49 yrs old, the only target audience I belong to is for medical prescriptions and Buicks.
Exactly. The kids don't need to hear each other. They're too busy texting someone.
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Every time I ask them to turn the radio down, they do.

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This ^^^ Ask them to turn it down.

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Slodave, GF, and I went to a place to eat during NAMM-before-last.
I forget the name, but it was in the Universal Studios store-walk area. Bull-riding deal out front...

The food was decent. The music? Deafeningly loud. Like "rave" loud.
And dark enough that you couldn't see what you were eating.

Atmosphere was horrible.
That's the idea of the Saddle Ranch Chop House.

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