On 4/12/2013 6:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

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> My mother's favourite restaurant was the Keg which had an place about a
> mile from her condo. I had no problems with the food. It was the noise
> level that bothered me. The restaurant had been an old paper mill with
> beautiful stone walls and floors. There was a combination of booths and
> tables. They had soft rock music piped in. People had to raise their
> voices to talk over the music. Then they cranked up the music to be
> heard over the conversations. Then people had to speak louder to be
> heard over the music.....
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Background music should stay in the background, that's why it's called
"background". Patrons are not there to hear a symphony or a rock
concert. We used to have an Italian restaurant nearby where most of the
waitstaff had lovely voices and sang arias. It was pretty but really
distracting and even intrusive at times.

gloria p

gloria p