3 Questions To Ask When Choosing Your Restaurant Sound System
You make fantastic food. Your menu is the best in town and your presentation is flawless. But if you don’t have the right atmosphere, your first-time customers won't become regular customers.
This is why it is so important to have a quality sound system in your restaurant. Your restaurant audio system sets the stage for your customer before they even open the menu and place their order - the music they notice upon entering, the clear paging they need to hear when their table is ready, the ambient background music they enjoy while dining.
Unfortunately, choosing and purchasing a quality sound system typically gets pushed low on the priority list. To make this process a bit easier, we’ve put together a list of the top 3 questions that you must ask when choosing audio equipment for your restaurant sound system.
- Do I need background or foreground level music?
- This question is simply asking how loud do you want the music? This should be determined by the type of restaurant you own and the atmosphere you want. If you own a sports bar, the music level and background sounds will be much louder than in a fine dining restaurant.
- The answer to this question will determine the selection of components used to build your restaurant’s speaker system.
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- Do I need paging?
- Paging is the ability to talk over the sound system with a restaurant microphone and automatically turn down the music playing over your stereo system.
- If you need to let customers know when their table is ready, or when their food can be picked up, the paging function is important.
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- Do I want separate audio sources in different areas?
- A restaurant sound system with the ability to choose what audio sources are routed to each area of your restaurant is called a multi-zone distributed audio system. In this type of audio system, you have the ability to route a specific audio source, like a microphone or a Bluetooth device, to a specific area of your restaurant.
- This allows you to have different music or audio sources playing in your lobby, dining room, patio, and restrooms.
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Once you have answered these three questions, you’ll have a better picture of what components you need for your commercial sound system or PA system for your restaurant. If you still need some help building the perfect system for your specific needs, reach out to one of our Pro Acoustics sales engineers at (888) 256-4112 or sales@proacoustics.com. We would be happy to help you design a custom system that will meet all your restaurant audio needs.