Thankfully, unlike your average nightclub DJ, most people don’t feel comfortable commenting on or putting in song requests at restaurants. Despite becoming a regular, I always feel guilty asking them to turn the music down a notch. It’s ironic that countless eateries continue to let ill-chosen background music (or lack thereof) slide. Before Sakamoto’s takeover, the restaurant’s background music involved a hasty round-up of American folk, Brazilian pop and elevator jazz. The increasing noise levels have even spawned the invention of restaurant noise monitoring apps like IHearU, which functions like Yelp for noise, providing user-generated breakdowns of restaurant noise levels down to the half-hour increments.

Source: National Post May 08, 2019 17:26 UTC