Cool idea. I wonder if there is generally correlation between quiet and quality of food, for example, greatly simplified: Good food => more business => louder restaurant Bad food => little...
Cool idea. I wonder if there is generally correlation between quiet and quality of food, for example, greatly simplified:
In my experience, no. You can have a very noisy restaurant that has bad food, but a good bar. They are busy and noisy because they have great drinks, the food is an afterthought. The flipside...
In my experience, no.
You can have a very noisy restaurant that has bad food, but a good bar. They are busy and noisy because they have great drinks, the food is an afterthought.
The flipside being that small, empty mom and pop restaurants often have amazing food but are not busy. Not to mention most fine dining establishments have exceptional food and are traditionally quiet.
Some restaurants may fit into that metric, but there are far to many variables of what makes a restaurant great for it to work all the time.
In many places near me, part of the issue is the minimalist industrial decorating trend. Everything is bare concrete floors, naked steel rafters and ceilings with no sound absorption properties....
In many places near me, part of the issue is the minimalist industrial decorating trend. Everything is bare concrete floors, naked steel rafters and ceilings with no sound absorption properties. Get a small handful of people in there and the room is booming while nobody can hear the conversation next to them.
Cool idea. I wonder if there is generally correlation between quiet and quality of food, for example, greatly simplified:
Good food => more business => louder restaurant
Bad food => little business => quieter restaurant
In my experience, no.
You can have a very noisy restaurant that has bad food, but a good bar. They are busy and noisy because they have great drinks, the food is an afterthought.
The flipside being that small, empty mom and pop restaurants often have amazing food but are not busy. Not to mention most fine dining establishments have exceptional food and are traditionally quiet.
Some restaurants may fit into that metric, but there are far to many variables of what makes a restaurant great for it to work all the time.
In many places near me, part of the issue is the minimalist industrial decorating trend. Everything is bare concrete floors, naked steel rafters and ceilings with no sound absorption properties. Get a small handful of people in there and the room is booming while nobody can hear the conversation next to them.
I downloaded this app when it was covered by Vox a while back and made a few submissions, it's great!