To be fair, the average noise level in restaurants may not be shooting up. Standardized methods to measure restaurant noise are in development, but the latest data from a popular sound-reading app ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --When you're choosing a restaurant, the food is probably your primary driver, but CBS 2 Morning Insider Vince Gerasole shows us why restaurant owners are now focusing on our ears as ...

Walk into a modern restaurant today, and you might not notice the playlist at first, but it's shaping your experience in subtle ways. The tempo of the music affects how quickly you eat, the genre ...

Like many New York City singles, Gregory Scott was working way too hard to hear his dates. The city’s abnormally loud bars and restaurants make connecting with a stranger all the more difficult, and ...

“Good food but it’s SO dang loud,” reads a Yelp review for one of Fresno’s most popular restaurants. It’s a complaint that you hear a lot in Fresno. Someone goes to a restaurant anticipating a cozy ...

A note to San Antonio restaurants: Our readers would like you to turn it down, please. This week’s Taste Q&A column on noisy restaurants — prompted by a question wondering why I don’t include decibel ...

Restaurant noise continues to be a thorn in the side of diners. Jonathan Gold and Jerry Christoffdiscuss sound design with Frances Anderton, host of DnA. Plus, Bon Appetit's restaurant critic Andrew ...

Readers who have returned from a Saturday night dining experience hoarse and slightly deafened by the rising tide of sound within their local hotspot may be interested in a new app that uses ...

And when a restaurant is swamped by a tsunami of news coverage, as Marcy’s Diner and the former Grace restaurant in Portland were several years ago, the company may post a consumer alert to warn that ...

The sight of smoke lingering from the fajitas. The sound of vegetables sizzling. The smell of the meat and the taste of it with the onions and peppers together in a tortilla. All of our senses govern ...

An acoustics professor, a food critic and an audio producer are staring at their devices in a Peruvian restaurant in downtown Washington. “What are you getting?” “Let’s see … it’s fluctuating.” “I ...