Have you been to restaurants in Spain?
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You stole my comment! I'm curious which country op is from - if Germans are too loud for him.
I only recently realised this, as well. German bars are loud, maybe because Germans are generally speaking not and it help them get a little bit more out of themselves. Also it's probably a privacy thing: The loud music makes it difficut to understand what people at the neighbouring tables are talking about. Hell, In most bars I don't even understand the person sitting next to me.
Huh. Never experienced that. Never been into a restaurant in Germany where ambient music was on, and I never felt like the customers were louder than what's normal for me.
Sorry, can't answer why, it must be a sub-trend, maybe some specific kind of restaurant you tend to visit?