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Why Restaurant Sound Design Affects Your Bottom Line
Lucas and Luna explore how restaurant audio design—from speaker placement to playlist tempo—affects guest spending, table turnover, and staff behavior. Drawing on a 2025 Cornell study showing that 72 decibels of ambient noise increases alcohol sales by 23 percent while reducing food check size, they walk through real examples: a New York steakhouse that redesigned its soundscape to boost per-person revenue by $12 and a London cafe that cut average dwell time by 14 minutes with targeted acoustics. They discuss how open kitchens unintentionally raise noise floors, why cheap Bluetooth speakers…
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