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I wonder how often places will change up their music as a way to shift things. The example I'm thinking of is Philz in Sunnyvale. Starting some time around th
by CaliforniaKarl 9y ago
I wonder how often places will change up their music as a way to shift things.
The example I'm thinking of is Philz in Sunnyvale. Starting some time around the new year, every time I've been there they've been playing much harder & louder music.
When I'm at a place, I prefer to be there without headphones, to show that I'm not completely disconnecting from the outside world. But with some of the music that's been playing, it's really hard to do, and so I've been avoiding it for the past month or so.
- randycupertino 9y agoThere's also a noticeable trend of tea shops and cafes buying more and more uncomfortable chairs to try and dissuade people from hanging around too long.
- Mediterraneo10 9y ago> Every time I've been there they've been playing much harder & louder music. This is the trend across cafes in my city in Romania. It is not clear to me what the motivation is: the staff just say that they have been instructed to keep the music playing at all times and at a constant volume. Is it to discourage people from staying long? Or do the owners believe that you need to have loud dance music playing at all times in order to attract people? It’s just sad that we are losing the Central European tradition of cafes as quiet, intellectual places where one could stay for a long time with a book or pen and paper.