But, he asked, did he do something morally unethical? After all, we could assume that maybe his food was almost ready to be served before he took leave of the little restaurant.
I've always said that the aural component is as important as any of the sensual qualities one experiences in a restaurant. Frankly, I don't care how fantastic the cuisine may be if the restaurant is too grimy, if the servers are too inattentive, and if the music doesn't enhance the dining experience in some way. Have I walked out of an excessively noisy dining room? Hell yes!
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I would rather hear Native American drumming than to hear the "Pina Colada Song" ever again. Ditto "Key Largo."
It's too bad restaurants won't pipe in culinary classics, like Annette Funicello singing "Pineapple Princess." Now THERE was a song!
The last time I was in Lulu's Thai Noodle Shop downtown, they were playing a Cocteau Twin's album I love. Made it all the better, IMO!
But I'd say it was aiding my sensory experience more than any "sensual" one, since I try to keep the sexiness at home if possible. It's for the good of the community, really. ;)
I can beat this one. When I worked at my very first American job there was a guy who would turn on KKFI when they played Indian drum music and leave the room. I always turned it down or to some other station,or turned on another radio.One day he punched me in the face,we had a fight and both got fired.
The flip side of the loud, hostile music equation is this: In the early 1980s, I worked in this macrobiotic cafe where the owner insisted on playing a tape cassette (this proves just how long ago this was...) of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" non-stop. I grew to hate it with such a passion that I used to hide the tape. But the owner just kept buying new ones.
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