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Photo credit: Elina Sazonova by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition My title for this post reverses the punctuation in The New York Times title: "Dining out too noisy? Try earbuds." The article, written by former Times restaurant critic Pete Wells, suggests...
Photo credit: Lisa Fotios by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The New York Times published an article last month titled: "Why Your Favorite Restaurant Sounds Like That." Writer Alyson Krueger discusses how restaurant owners and managers curate the music...
Photo credit: Burak The Weekender by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent podcast, Gastropod asks a question we’ve wondered about, too. Why are restaurants so loud? Gastropod is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network, and is supported in part by the...
Photo credit: Jose Francisco Fernandez Saura by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When people think of noise in New York City, they often mention Times Square as a crowded,...
Photo credit: Ibrahim Boran by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition In a recent issue of the Boulder Weekly, restaurant critic John Lehndorff asks, “Are restaurants too loud?” Of course, you know the answer as well as I do. Yes, they are. Lehndorff describes...
Photo credit: Pixabay by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition The Washington Post published a wonderful interactive online article with restaurant sound levels. This is the Post’s second article about restaurant noise that I know about, although there may have...
Photo credit: Rachel Claire by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Hear here! I know a good line when I steal one, but I always give credit. I took this line from The University of Alabama’s Hear Here Alabama Project, which I recently found online. Here’s the...
Photo credit: Suzy Hazelwood by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies When you read posts about restaurants on this blog, the focus is generally on diners who complain about...
Photo credit: Lawrence Suzara by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Two recent news stories about restaurants in Osaka, Japan,* and close to home in Los Angeles, California, caught my eye. In Osaka, a new cafe, Shojo, opened that is an entirely silent space;...