Who decided so many restaurants have to be as echo-y as possible?
I don’t need it to be quiet, but it would be nice to actually be able to hold a conversation with the to-go cashier about how they lost my order.
Yeah, it’s been a fun evening…
At least losing the order wasn’t their fault. It’s a chain restaurant & the central order line didn’t submit the order to them. But just trying to establish that, and re-order, with a restaurant full of families here for an elementary school fundraiser, and everything echoing off the smooth walls, floor and ceiling to the point where I could barely make out my own words, never mind the cashier’s…
@dantebrevity links to Why Restaurants Are So Loud Now (Boing Boing), which quotes How Restaurants Got So Loud (The Atlantic).
Thanks…I’d suspected a lot of that (cheaper construction, and encouraging people to finish up sooner and leave), but hadn’t really thought about the impact of open kitchens or the noise encouraging people to drink more.
But the part that comes down to visual aesthetics makes me think of the plants in Jurassic Park, chosen for appearance regardless of whether they’re good for the actual dinosaurs.
I may want to check out that search-by-noise-level app…