There are many pleasures in dining out - professionally prepared food (by someone else), nice dishes and cutlery (that you don't have to clean) and such. There are perils as well - dodgy service, fellow diners with attire that is a frontal sensory assault, and of late: lots and lots of noise.
Some new restaurants seem to have been designed to let sound bounce around to its heart's content. You have to talk louder, your dining companions talk louder, EVERYBODY talks louder. And please note: I'm not even bringing up idiots who bring uncontrollable toddlers who end up screaming. Rather, I'm simply talking about adults trying to talk over the background noise.
My Sainted wife and I recently made the mistake of inadvertantly discovering one of these wonders - right under our noses here in town, much to our surprise and dismay. Frankly, I don't care if there are cockroaches in the kitchen as long as I don't know, so I find current State 'restaurant health' signs worthless.
But deafening noise where I eat? THAT should be a required warning.
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