Literally only old ass baby boomers ask for music to be turned down at restaurants because they are the only ones left who always think they’re the most important people in the room.
I don't know oyster. That seems kind of dismissive of your grandparents. Maybe those old ass boomers are the only ones left who value conversation. Maybe they are the only ones left who care enough about their companion's thoughts to want to hear what he or she has to say. Maybe their hearing is already compromised from all the rock concerts they went to from 1965-1995.
It seems like the hearing in most situations. The thing is when it comes to customer service it’s never actually what the boomers are asking... it’s that they’re being such pretentious entitled pieces of shit about it. It’s not that they want the music turned down even, it’s that they act like it’s a personal insult to themselves that we had the audacity to think the music should be at a volume too loud for them in the first place. Which then makes the employee wonder why the hell they think they are in control of the restaurant that they made a choice to go to. I’m not going to go to a sushi place and act like is a insult to me they don’t serve chicken fingers. People look at me like I ruined Christmas when I tell them we don’t have fries. If a bar wants to have a certain atmosphere I’m not going to ask them to change it, I’m going to eat somewhere that matches better with what I want if I don’t like it. Plenty of middle aged people do this too but more of that generation googles reataurants before hand to make sure it’s something they’ll like. I don’t really know a millennial who doesn’t know exactly what a restaurant is about before even deciding when to eat there.