Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A couple’s toast, the clicking of the utensils, fire crackles around a pan of sizzling oil: These are some of the sounds cascading ...

Restaurant noise is a known nuisance. Zagat and Consumer Reports surveys have both named loud environments as the number one irritant for patrons. Many people choose their lunch or dinner destinations ...

WILSHIRE BLVD — A year since its opening, the complaints are still coming in from neighbors about SOUTH, bemoaning the noise and other general quality of life issues which they believe came with the ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Restaurant owners in Midtown tell Eyewitness News they're being targeted by citizens enforcing New York City's noise code. "For 27 years that we've been here, we've never ...

Restaurants and cafes exist mainly to rejuvenate. We go out to consume something tasty we didn’t have to make while engaging in pleasurable, sometimes illuminating conversation. Some restaurants do ...

Restaurant quiet zones disappear as loud diners dominate dining rooms and turn once-calm spaces into hubs of noise and disruption. Dining rooms once designed for intimate conversation now echo with ...

The business is told to stick to ambient sounds following complaints.

Noise is the second most common complaint among restaurant-goers. From the clinking of cutlery to the relentless chatter, restaurants have become veritable sound factories, making it challenging for ...

It's getting louder and louder at New York restaurants -- but city officials are only focusing on noise levels outside. Stefano Giovannini The NYC Hospitality Alliance, a restaurant advocacy ...

Are restaurants getting noisier, or is our patience with restaurant noise growing thinner? We explore the question out loud in today's Taste Q&A column, a forum where my food-writing colleague Paul ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — They look like typical restaurant knickknacks. Sea creatures, beach chairs, and even a fold-out picnic table line the ceilings and walls of The Sanibel Fish House. But they’re not ...