American Burger Company installing iPod jukeboxes in eatery

Jukeboxes that play nice with your iPod have long since been available for your pool hall or living room, but John Tunney of American Burger Company feels the Apple-centric music machines would fit a bit better inside a tried-and-true eatery. Subsequently, the new Hicksville location sports a dozen Logitech mm50 sound docks, and allows customers to bring in their tunes and shows to distract them from quality conversation while scarfing down a burger. Apparently, the restaurant is hoping the honor system will keep users from blasting their tunes too loudly in public, and just in case you happen to forget your Pod when coming in to grab a bite, the bevy of plasma screens and open WiFi signal should keep you plenty occupied whilst chewing.

[Via ChipChick]

[GermanQR @ Apr 14th 2007 8:21AM]

Hicksville? You gotta be kidding me...

[Jeff @ Apr 14th 2007 10:12AM]

Hicksville, Long Island is one of the oldest suburbs in the United States. It's in the town of Oyster Bay. And it's named after a person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicksville%2C_New_York

For anyone outside the northeast, this idea really is not much different than the regular jukeboxes a lot of real diners have at every booth. It's just an updated version of it.

[Will @ Apr 14th 2007 12:35PM]

There's nothing like eating a 4x4 while listening to some 12 year old's Spice Girls remixes.

[Tom Wassel @ Apr 14th 2007 12:50PM]

And despite its name, Hicksville is by no means a "hick" area. It's a highly developed, almost urban, suburb of Long Island.

[MarkG @ Apr 14th 2007 5:03PM]

NO FRICKIN' WAY! I had exactly the same idea today, whilst sitting in Burger King, listening to their vapid AOR.

However, I discarded the idea a few seconds later when I realised that letting customers decide what to listen to would result in a cacophony of Britney Spears and Snoop Dog (including all his colourful colloquialisms, presumably!).

If I want to listen to My Tunes in a burger joint, I'll listen to my iPod, thanks.

[crescentdavid @ Apr 15th 2007 2:11PM]

Gawd. iPod really has become the toyota of mp3 players, hasn't it?

So much for the cachet. It's scratch and sniff in recycled oil.

[jk @ Apr 26th 2007 2:17PM]

http://www.ltkbarandkitchen.com/site/blahblahblah.cfm

LTK has been doing this for over a year now. They also have portable TVs, and other nice tech that you can bring to your table.