Although the quality of your cuisine is essential for customer satisfaction… focusing solely on it is not the best solution, because even with an excellent menu, if your restaurant is too noisy, customers will hesitate to come back and will talk negatively about it around them. That’s why acoustic comfort is becoming a major issue for your restaurant.
More and more people today are hypersensitive to noise, feeling uncomfortable in a loud environment. This makes it difficult for them to have lunch in a noisy environment, where relaxation should take precedence.
We offer simple solutions for reducing noise in restaurants.
Make an inventory of all your noise sources.
You want to reduce the hubbub in a catering room. The first thing to remember is that noise can come from many different places and sources.
There are three essential areas in the acoustic treatment of a building:
– The treatment of reverberation inside your restaurant
– Theinsulation of your building against external noise
– The nuisance of noise from your equipment
Then you can try to find solutions to reduce the noise.
Is the noise related to your restaurant’s activity?
Cutlery noise, chair creaking, background music, equipment operation, customer conversation…
All these elements add up to a degraded sound environment in your restaurant, and all the more so if the building’s layout is conducive to sound reverberation.
Is the noise outside your restaurant?
Some noise nuisance can come from outside or from a room adjacent to your restaurant. In this case, we speak of building sound insulation. You’ll need to work on your drywall or glass partitions to reduce noise pollution as much as possible.
Is the noise related to the layout of your restaurant?
The layout of your establishment plays a significant role in its sound environment. Customers seated at tightly packed tables will tend to raise the volume.
to get along. An effect of one-upmanship appears, and this is what is known in acoustics as the “cocktail effect”!
Use simple means to reduce noise.
Is noise becoming deafening during service? Would you like to make your restaurant more pleasant and ensure the confidentiality of conversations between tables?
There are several recipes for attenuating this reverberation of sound.
👉 Reducing noise from restaurant activities
Choose low-noise equipment (coffee machines, dishwashers, mixers, ovens, hoods, etc.) and refer to theenergy label when purchasing to find out the equipment’s noise level.
Open kitchens: consider acoustic solutions or the installation of glass to respect a reverberation time < of 0.8 seconds when serving.
👉 Reduce noise from outside the restaurant
Reverberations and noise pollution coming from outside or from one room to another can be weakened thanks toacoustic insulation, generally achieved by installing solid panels as soon as the building is constructed. Acoustic products are therefore not the right solution for insulating spaces suffering from noise pollution from outside. Their main role is toabsorb sound within the same room.
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👉 Reduce noise reverberation in your restaurant 👈
Increasingly popular, MYO acoustic and structural solutions have made their appearance in noisy catering areas, as they attenuate, correct or absorb polluting sounds.
Both decorative and acoustic, MYO products help to structure space by offering real separation solutions.
In terms of acoustics, the size of the restaurant is also important. The larger the room, the longer the reverberation time and the louder the room. In this case, acoustic solutions have a role to play.
By installing MYO products, designed to absorb sound, the reverberation time of sound waves will be reduced, resulting in … less noise in your restaurant space!
LIKE CREATING YOUR MAP, EACH ACOUSTIC ADVICE IS UNIQUE, depending on the establishment: space, needs, aesthetics…
This is why a MYO advisor has recommendation tools to help you with your acoustic design.
Acoustic treatment does not mean aesthetic degradation
Some restaurant owners have told us that they are reluctant to install acoustic solutions in their establishments. For many, integrating panels, pictures, partitions or totems was tantamount to distorting the restaurant’s decor and overall ambience. But acoustic solutions are not just acoustically effective. They also have a powerful decorative function.
We generally find 2 types of requests:
📌 Integrate solutions so thatthey blend in with the decor, to the point of going virtually unnoticed. This is generally the case in restaurants with a distinctive decor, or in historic buildings where every detail is carefully considered.
📌Integrate solutions so thatthey stand out and enhance the space. This is generally the case in restaurants fitted out in neutral tones, where customized products are required: prints on chalkboards, marked dividers…
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