I wish Yelp allowed users to submit decibel measurements.
" I'm sort of shaming them every week with my restaurant reviews, because alongside the star ratings, I include decibel counts. Restaurants tell me they're using acoustic panels in seat cushions and things like that to sort of tamp down the noise. But ... our restaurant scene is just exploding here. There's no city, really, that's immune from this problem, by the way. I hear from my peers around the country, noise is a problem in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Minneapolis — it's everywhere. And again, I think it's because the design, and large numbers of people going to popular restaurants, drinking, none of that helps."
" I'm sort of shaming them every week with my restaurant reviews, because alongside the star ratings, I include decibel counts. Restaurants tell me they're using acoustic panels in seat cushions and things like that to sort of tamp down the noise. But ... our restaurant scene is just exploding here. There's no city, really, that's immune from this problem, by the way. I hear from my peers around the country, noise is a problem in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Minneapolis — it's everywhere. And again, I think it's because the design, and large numbers of people going to popular restaurants, drinking, none of that helps."