The journal
Notes from the house
What we have learned about sound in dining rooms, written down in the hope it saves someone else a bad service.
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Why Indian Restaurants Sound Wrong at Breakfast
The same playlist at 9am and 9pm is why your restaurant feels off. How time-of-day music programming fixes atmosphere — without a subscription service.
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A Guide to Ragas by Time of Day
Indian classical music assigns each raga to an hour of the day. Here is how morning, afternoon, and evening ragas work — and how we use them in our restaurant playlists.
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The Instruments of the Indian Dining Room
Six instruments, and what each one does to a room full of people eating.
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