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A background music service for fine dining, bistros, casual restaurants, wine bars and hotel restaurants. Built for operators who know the music in the room is not background decoration but an operational tool that shapes dwell time, pace of service and average ticket across every shift.
Before considering technology, it helps to understand why music matters in a restaurant. The human brain reacts to sound instinctively: it shapes how guests perceive the space, the time they spend at the table, and what they are willing to pay for it.
Tempo (BPM) shapes how long people stay at the table. In casual dining and wine bars, slower programming below 100 BPM has been shown to extend visits and increase food and beverage revenue per cover. In high-turnover lunch service, faster programming can support pace without making guests feel rushed.
Neuromarketing research links instrumental jazz, refined acoustic and select classical programming to higher willingness-to-pay. Your soundtrack is not decoration — it is an implicit signal of quality, calibrated to the price point of your menu.
Well-designed background music also subtracts: it masks kitchen noise, the conversation at the next table, the espresso machine. It creates a bubble of acoustic privacy that lets guests stay longer and order one more course.
Restaurants that find a consistent sonic identity over time build something most concepts lack: a sound guests associate with the place. Like the lighting and the plating, the music becomes part of how the experience is remembered.
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Start free trial — £12.99$16.99€14.99/mo after trialA restaurant is not one acoustic environment but five. Each touchpoint of the guest journey has a different mood, a different rhythm, a different sonic need. A coherent restaurant audio strategy addresses them as one system, not as separate playlists.
The moment a guest crosses the threshold sets expectations for everything that follows. Programming here is welcoming, unhurried, recognisable as the signature of the place. It signals attention without raising voice.
The core space where the meal happens. Programming here is instrumental-leaning, with carefully managed dynamics: never silent, never intrusive. The pacing follows the rhythm of the service and shifts with the time of day.
A different zone with a different mood: more contemporary, slightly more energetic, designed to support conversation without competing with it. Volume and tempo follow the time of evening.
Outdoor service has different acoustics: less reverb, more ambient interference, often a more casual guest mode. Programming for the terrace accounts for the open air and the time of day, from lunch to aperitivo to late dinner.
Birthdays, business dinners, family gatherings: each has a different sonic register. The dashboard lets you switch programme for a private room with a click, or schedule the change in advance for a booked event.
AI text-to-speech in 14 languages for welcome messages, daily specials, opening hours, last call. Recorded by the manager in minutes, played in the room at the moments that matter most.
Most music platforms approach the problem as a library question: more tracks, more genres, more filters. A restaurant operator does not need more choice. A restaurant operator needs the choice already made well, consistently, every service, without anyone on the team having to think about it.
The editorial team at My Corporate Radio is led by Emanuele Carocci, a radio broadcaster with over twenty years of professional on-air experience on national commercial radio. He leads the music curation team and supervises every station in the catalogue. The discipline of building audio segments for millions of listeners is the same discipline applied to the first ten minutes a guest spends at your table.
Curation here means specific things: tempo coherent with the service phase, no abrupt transitions between tracks, no vocal hooks that hijack conversation, no songs everyone has heard at every other restaurant on the street. The catalogue is a proprietary music library, built from original AI-crafted music under human creative direction — outside the repertoires administered by performing rights organisations.
The result is sound that recedes when guests are eating and rises when they are arriving; that signals quality without becoming foreground; that gives the restaurant a recognisable identity over time. This is what background music for a restaurant should mean. Most platforms do not deliver it because they cannot — an algorithm trained on individual streaming data has no model for it. A working broadcaster does.
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Prices in other currencies: US $16.99 · EU €14.99UK £12.99 · EU €14.99UK £12.99 · US $16.99
The biggest obstacle to playing music in a restaurant is usually the bureaucratic weight of collective licensing. Our model removes it.
Our catalog is direct-licensed. We acquire public performance rights directly from independent artists and labels and we produce original AI-crafted music under human creative direction. Performing rights organisations such as ASCAP and BMI (US), SESAC and GMR (US), PRS and PPL (UK), SIAE (Italy), GEMA (Germany), SACEM (France) remain the reference for their own repertoires; our catalogue is distinct.
In practice: when you use My Corporate Radio exclusively as your music source, no additional PRO payment is required. You receive an official License Certificate to display in case of an inspection.
This is an alternative to the traditional Spotify + PRO combination, designed for restaurants that want simple, predictable, legal background music without the paperwork.
The best restaurant background music service combines three things: programming curated specifically for the dining experience by working broadcasters, a subscription that includes all commercial licensing so you never deal with performing rights organisations separately, and the ability to manage different zones (dining room, bar, terrace) independently. My Corporate Radio delivers all three at a flat monthly subscription starting at $16.99.
Yes. In most countries playing music in a restaurant requires a license from performing rights organisations such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC in the United States, or PRS and PPL in the United Kingdom. With My Corporate Radio your subscription includes all licensing for commercial use: our catalog is direct-licensed, so no separate PRO payment is required when you use our service exclusively.
Our international plan is $16.99 per month in the United States, £12.99 in the United Kingdom, €14.99 in Europe. All plans include curated programming, full commercial licensing, multi-zone management, AI text-to-speech announcements in 14 languages, and customer support. 7-day free trial available, no credit card required.
Consumer streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Premium and Amazon Music explicitly restrict their terms of service to personal and domestic use only. A restaurant operating commercially falls outside the scope of these consumer licences. A service licensed for commercial use is required.
Yes. Each zone of the restaurant has a different mood and rhythm. Our multi-zone system lets you assign dedicated programming to dining room, bar, terrace, private dining and any other space, all controlled from a single dashboard.
Yes. A robust body of research in environmental psychology shows measurable effects of background music on dwell time, perceived speed of service and average ticket. Slower tempos generally extend visits in fine dining contexts; faster tempos can support higher turnover in casual settings. The right programming is the one tuned to your concept and your shift, not a generic playlist.
No complex equipment. The service runs through a web app installable on any PC, tablet, smartphone or smart speaker, or through a plug-and-play hardware player that connects to your existing sound system.
Yes. The dashboard is designed for multi-location management. A core brand sound can be shared across the entire group while specific announcements and tweaks remain location-specific.
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