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 ...

In an era of vanishing conversation, the experience of dining out is being diminished. Here’s how to reclaim it. Chris Berdik is the author of “Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World — and How We Can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Newly released body camera footage shows a North Charleston city councilman refusing to comply with a noise complaint made against his restaurant. The incident occurred ...