How Does The Acoustics Affect Customers ' Eating Pace?

Everybody has a favorite place to eat. Eating out can be a very pleasant experience or a disastrous one. People are free to choose from a wide range of different restaurants where to spend time and have a meal. Although, not all restaurants are the same and each has different characteristics regarding class, interior, cuisine and service. This paper provides a comparison of 4 different restaurants (fast food, casual, upscale): McDonald’s, Panda Express, Applebee’s and Delmonico’s.

Noise can be very distracting especially if someone wants to study, sleep, read, do homework, and do a project or anything else. I personally have experienced noise as a distraction and I would never intentionally try to distract someone from doing what they want buy making it hard for them to focus because of my noise.

The main purpose of this research study is to come up with a strong analysis on the performance level the restaurant. The following objectives have been brought forward with regard to this purpose.

For many people, noises in the environment may not be an annoyance, but for others who are noise sensitive it can have several numbers of negative effects. There are some cause-effects such as difficulties concentrating in the classroom, at work, and/or personal life. It can also go as far as causing internal organs damage. For example, the learning process of a child facing this disorder could be more difficult, according to Tremmel “a child’s brain has to work overtime in a noisy classroom to do its typical, but, very important job of distinguishing sounds whose subtle differences are the key to success with language and reading”. Even though, from early age people learn how to localize and identify different sounds that will help them throughout their life, there are some people that suffer from noise sensitivity and it can make their life a bit hard, because certain functions of their brain can be affected. Noise Sensitivity (NS) is a physiological and psychological internal state in which the noise level of certain things can be uncomfortable for an individual in doing their daily tasks. In the research paper by Kliuchko, et al. (2016), he states that “the human ear and brain come together to adapt to the acoustic environment and that the auditory cortex can adapt in a way that can be tolerated for each individual”. In another study done by Dr. Schnupp’s from the research team at the University of Oxford has been “found that the auditory neurons in the brain are

First of all, peoples are restaurants customers, have no right to prevent bringing other’s children. For example, the parents of noisy children already paid for restaurants, so they stay in restaurants and they can enjoy at restaurants with their children.

Observing from a distance the restaurant seem to operate with about 1 servers depending on number of customers in the system. It took about 1 minute ordering and about 4 minutes for time in system. Depending on the groups of customer coming inside the restaurant. There seem to be more customers entering the system from the back entrance then the main entrance. As rush hour approach at about 11:50 AM the servers seem to expand to servers. Once customer approach the servers in groups of two it took about 1 minute in the system depending on the type of meal. For the food to be process it took about 11 minute for customers to receive their meals. Groups of one seem to take about 2 minutes and 54 second to order their meals. Processing the food took about 9 minutes depending on the type of meal being process. During rush hours the workers perform their job well when preparing the meal their tend to be more focus on the drive thru minimal toward customer inside. Depending on the day rush hour would start earlier and the time in the system seem to be longer when customers order their

As you walk in you immediately see their fully stocked old fashion looking bar with its wood paneling and leather bar stools. This old timely elegance runs throughout the first floor. The dim lighting, darkly stained wood floors, simple decor, and leather booths give the feel of the formality and classic simplicity that really keeps the food highlighted. On the second floor the feel of the room is much more lively, strongly effected by the huge skylight that brightens up the room. On each floor there are huge bunches of budding branches over flowing from a vase on each floor. It takes away from the almost ominous feeling of the dark rooms and makes the dining room feel more welcoming. Though the decor is very understated, the atmosphere is invigorated by playing what I would imagine is Mario Batali's personal iPod full of rock music. It is sometimes kind of distracting and a strange genre to play at this caliber of a restaurant. The food I ate there is some of the best Italian food I have eaten in my life. What I noticed was that the dishes that I loved were a testament to the saying, "less is

From the observations of the restaurant and the interview with a full-time employee, it was evident that the queueing problem was typical, especially for ‘Today’s special Hot-food menu’ during the peak hours of Fridays between 12:00-14:00. This queueing problem affected the total time taken to be fully served, taking up to 7.7 minutes, which the problem was analysed in the group report.

Depending on the type of music, it may either make the customers wants to eat fast or slow. This also helps the amount of time that it takes for restaurants to get people out and others in, how music and dining is entertaining, and music and dining can get strangers to talk/ sing with the song.

Have you ever been to a movie theatre, sitting at work, or hanging out at home and heard people eating, talking, or making repetitive sounds? For some, these are just regular everyday noises. But, for others these noises are so loud and disturbing that they literally become triggers for anger and cause people to distance themselves from social gatherings, family, and personal life (Kumar et al., 2014).

A restaurant is a fast-paced and stressful environment, especially when it becomes busy. The client’s inability to manage his stress will have a negative impact on his ability to complete activities in an effecient manner.

Going out to eat at a restaurant can sometimes be somewhat of an “eye-opening’ experience. The food quality or the time it takes to get your food can definitely add to this, but often at times many people do not observe and analyze the interaction that takes place between the staff at the restaurant and those who dine there. The interactions that take place at a restaurant can vary from person to person, but by looking at characteristics such as age, gender, culture, ethnicity, or physical ability, a connection may be found regarding how people are treated by the staff at a restaurant. For this analysis, I decided to go out to a restaurant with my wife with a goal in mind to study the interactions

The best thing about the noise in our society is that although there is a negative effect in situations of the ability to listen to personal music, there is also a positive side which encompasses the same thing. The reason that most of us listen to our own music is not only possibly a sub-conscious effort to seclude ourselves from other around us, but also because we want to please ourselves by listening to sounds or music we like. Therefore, one example of how noise in our society promotes communication would be when a group of strangers are somewhere and here the new Taylor Swift song that they all love, they catch themselves singing and dancing to it, simultaneously noticing the others doing the same which breaks that barrier of being strangers by making them realize they have something in common. This later leads to them speaking to each other and possibly beginning a relationship. Similarly, from a more fundamental perspective sounds as simple as someone chopping wood outside, singing in the shower in the morning, or the sound of a jump rope hitting the pavement as little kids play, all play in the role of promoting communication; all you have to do is listen for

As you head toward the entrance of the restaurant, you will see hosts standing in the lobby to greet people with bright smiles on their faces. The hosts ask how many are eating and once you tell them the number, and pay at the entrance, the host will asks where you would like to sit. The restaurant has red, smooth, comfortable leather booths, which the guest can sit in. Furthermore, people have a choice between sitting down in the back or near a window. The restaurant is enormous and has attractive colors which make the room spacious, a lot of interesting pictures, and other decorations on the walls. The entire restaurant is packed with people eating, sharing laughter, and enjoying their meal.

The paper presents an analysis of the different factors influencing the restaurant industry and how these factors increase or decrease the demand for such services. The hypothesis that will be examined is that the performance of restaurants is mostly based on the type of food chosen by customers when they decide to go out for dinner, lunch, breakfast, or simply for a snack. What type of food refers mainly the nationality or concept of the food, (traditional American, Italian, Indian, Latin, or from any other type of culture). This factor is important because when customers go out to for dinner; they decide what to eat before deciding where to eat. That is why this factor is considerably important according to the hypothesis.