As my friends at [[Casa Mia]] know well, I’ve got strong opinions about music played in restaurants. Admittedly it’s a hard thing to get right: too much Perry Como and you risk losing the young rockers, too much Bedouin Soundclash and you loose the suits. Personally I would be a happy man if I never had to listen to Andrea Bocelli again for as long as I live.
So here’s my proposed solution: each restaurant should have its own last.fm group and invite customers to become members of the group (here’s a group I’ve created for Casa Mia as an experiment; feel free to join it).
Then all that’s left to do is to stream the group’s radio station into the restaurant; in theory, while every track won’t appeal to every customer, at least every customer’s taste will be factored into the playlist.
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I think you’ll just end up
I think you’ll just end up with Ocean 100’s playlist.
You underestimate the
You underestimate the richness of the customer base. (I hope).
You know I’ll be adding
You know I’ll be adding Andrea Bocelli to my playlist.
I was at a wine bar last
I was at a wine bar last night and it was a lounge version of Material Girl that finally drove me out.
That’s a great idea, looking
That’s a great idea, looking forward to it.
Noosh
In the American Midwest,
In the American Midwest, distances between good restaurants (and clubs, if any) are so large as to be prohibitive. If you go out, you’re lucky if you get to change venues. So, any restaurant with a bar becomes a club as the night rolls on.
I used to manage a fine dining hotel restaurant, and got to tune the playlist just right. The restaurant closes at 10pm, but that’s when the bar picks up. The late diners would finish-up main dining with some Verve jazz remixes and segue into extended remixes of disco covers or dance punk like !!!. At 1:30am, before bar close at 2, we’d switch to smoky-lounge groove down-tempo stuff. It also kept the crowd under control, too. No Stairway to Heaven. EVAR
The local bar where the
The local bar where the Phillly web tech crowd congregates after hours uses a last.fm station: http://www.last.fm/user/natmec…
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