Tranquil Restaurant

Every time I wander into a Roadhouse Grill (chain restaurant in the states) I am greeted by the roar of one hundred families shouting conversations and a poor hostess who can't hear my deep tones over the noise. I wouldn't put myself in a situation like this, going to a crowded restaurant with good, cheap food, but the only empty restaurants around me have lousy food and lousy service. Even the goumet restaurants draw wild dinner crowds, and most of them have live bands, compounding the noise issue.

What I want to do is to open a quality, low-price restaurant with a homely feel, only without the card tables and lawn chairs. It would have somewhat subdued lighting and none of the tables would be in sight of one another. While this lack of sight may encourage rowdiness, soft music would be playing to counter any extreme talking.

I think that the separated tables could be achieved by landscaping, lots and lots of landscaping, to make it look like the walls were made of plants. Plants would do a decent job of stopping noise, and they don't cost to much.

Additionally, the waiters (or waitresses) would have to act calm and subdued when they arrived, as if this were their only table, but still move as quickly as possible once out of sight.