Music makes a difference. For instance, our Classical collections reflect a relaxed, sophisticated, classy ambience. It fits right in with the restaurant that wants to offer its customers the best of everything - including music.
 
 

Well, if you want 20-minute meals and constant turnover, play loud rock music. That's what researchers at Johns Hopkins University discovered when they measured the impact of different styles of music on restaurant customers. Classical music provided the "most satisfying" dining experience, and customers said they were "most likely to come back" to the restaurants with classical music. Upbeat music, like our Jazz and Pop Grooves collections, keeps people moving - and buying. A lot of restaurants play our Jazz collections when they're very crowded
 
 

If you play the radio, you're leaving your customers at the mercy of the local disk jockey. What's more important, you will probably have to pay annual royalties to several music licensing societies to make sure you're covered for all the music you play. Even after you've spent all that money, you're not guaranteeing a pleasant music ambience to your customers - no matter how much it costs.
 
 

No way. Part of what has made classical music the most popular music in history is its variety. Manion Music's Classical collections have more than 25 hours of music in a wide range of styles, all of it programmable. The selections are drawn from the cream of the classical repertory, from the music of composers the whole world loves. Our collections are simply the best music in the world. And they can be used to suggest several different moods. Customers can expand the breadth of the sophisticated ambience, without diluting the sophisticated atmosphere, by adding our Jazz and Café Moods collections to their repertoire.
 
 

They evoke feelings that go hand-in-hand with a pleasant dining experience. Music is the most expressive medium known to man, and since ancient times people have valued its ability to stir the emotions. Our music aims to ease away cares and to allow the diner's surroundings to stimulate his appetite. The pieces harmonize with one another with an ease and flow that fit together like elements in a fine painting.
 
 

We've arranged our collections in fifteen collections of five hours each. The Classical music begins with intimate, romantic composers like Chopin and Debussy that provide a quiet, peaceful ambience, and move through "middle of the road" sonatas and concertos to the bright, exciting pieces by Bach, Vivaldi, and others. Our Jazz collections have a mix of lively and more subdued selections. We have programmed the CDs so that you can change the "temperature" of the room by adjusting the mood of the music. You control it all. Your music can suit the hour of the day, speed up or slow down the pace of the action, and create a different environment for each special occasion.
 
 

Nowadays most popular recordings are designed for playback on expensive (and often loud) high-fi equipment. The booming crescendos and the whispering pianissimos sound great in that situation. As background music, though, they don't work: the highs startle your customers and can damage your speakers; the lows get lost. Manion Music is engineered specifically to be played as background music in a room full of people engaged in lively conversation. The louder passages are made quieter; the quiet passages are raised in volume, so that a seamless, consistent sound level can be maintained. Every Manion Music disc has exactly the same volume range, so you never have to touch your volume control unless you want to. You just set it, and forget it.
 
 

Manion Music offers Jazz, Italian, Latino, Caribbean, Café Moods, Pop Grooves, and Christmas. Each collection is available on the same basis: you pay once, and it's Yours for Life®.
 
 

You'll need a Compact Disc player for Manion Music, and there are several carousel models we recommend that cost only a couple hundred dollars. Cassettes wear out, break, melt and get dirty. Compact discs have a much longer life, and we replace any that you manage to break at a nominal cost.
 
 

Only if you pay the public performance royalties to the owners (Michael Jackson, in the case of most of the Beatles' repertory) or their licensing agencies (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). Manion Music customers will never have to pay for using our music again, but, if you want to play other copyrighted material, you have to pay royalties to the owners of that material.