According to a recent Zagat survey, noise has become the second-biggest complaint among diners, behind lousy service. Not only is excess noise a annoying to guests, but it has a negative effect on your bottom line. In noisy environments servers and bartenders are 3 times more likely to make order errors leading to waste and [...]
Acoustic Panels for RestaurantsThe Ordinary quiets down with new array of acoustic tilesA few days after the upper King Street restaurant affixed $12,000 worth of acoustical panels to its ceiling, Mike Lata was talking to his sous chef in an area of the raw bar that’s visually shielded from the dining room. The restaurant had [...]
The principles that we use to help treat unwanted sound in your space are the same concepts that were used in the 4th century BC. According to Bobby Owsinski's Big Picture Music Production Blog: The Mystery Of The Greek Amphitheater Solved: For centuries acousticians have argued over the secret to the excellent acoustics at the amphitheater of Epidaurus [...]