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Fine-Tune Your Quick Service Restaurant Dynamics with Music
Sound is the most underutilized emotional driver in the customer experience. That’s why we provide Music Solutions for quick service restaurants that go beyond background noise. Our approach unlocks music’s ability to shape brand perception, connect with your customers, and inspire action.
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of global shoppers say music is the number one factor in lifting their mood.
– Elevating The Customer Experience: The Impact of Sensory Marketing
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of customers say the right music can improve their mood.
– Mood Media In-Store Customer Trends Report, 2023
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increase in dessert sales and 11%+ increase in side dish sales seen with custom music selections driving impulse buys.
– HUI Research
The largest global music library for business with over 120 million fully licensed tracks and more than 1500 curated playlists.
Music For Business Solutions
It’s not just about trending tracks, the right music can evoke an emotional response, boost brand sentiment, and encourage your customers to make a purchase.
Signature Music
Signature Music
Curate tailored playlists with our premium streaming solution. Choose from a vast library of licensed music to build a consistent soundscape across your global locations. A quick, easy, and scalable way to harness the power of music in your restaurants.
Custom Music
Custom Music
Collaborate with our global network of music supervisors to create a bespoke playlist with licensed original music that perfectly captures your brand story through sound. A seamless blend of strategy and emotion, custom curated to engage your target audience.
How Can Music Help My Quick Service Restaurant?
In the competitive quick service restaurant industry, how can you cut through the noise and connect with your audience?
Sound is one of the most impactful tools we have at our disposal. It’s the first thing you customers will notice, even if they don’t realize it. The right music not only reflects your brand identity but can also evoke emotional responses, create comfort, build trust, and increase time spent in your restaurant.
Sound has the power to change how people feel, and people act based on those feelings.
Connect with customers
Hit the right genre, tempo, and volume and watch as your music pulls your customers’ attention away from their phones and into your space.
A curated digital music playlist can serve multiple purposes at once: improving your restaurant environment, enhancing brand perception, and lifting the mood of your customers and employees.
Music can inspire, entertain, and communicate key messages while also leaving a lasting impression on your target audience.
Cut through the noise with a captivating and customized soundscape.
Enhance Customer Experience
Improve the ambience of your quick service restaurant while creating an emotional connection with your customers. The right music can reduce perceived wait times, put a spring in their step or soothe their nerves.
Inspire Action
Up the tempo to keep lines moving and encourage diners to increase their pace to turn over tables at speed in peak periods or slow things down to bring calm to a fast-moving environment.
Boost Sales
A mood-boosting playlist combined with targeted audio messaging can make your customers more receptive to your marketing and encourage impulse buys.
Elevate Employee Morale
Music can boost productivity and improve job satisfaction, making repetitive tasks feel easier and improving the overall work environment for your team.
Cement Brand Identity
Curate a playlist that reflects your brand personality to create a multisensory restaurant experience that is consistent, memorable, and enjoyable.
What is Music for Business?
Music for business isn’t just background noise, it’s an essential component in curating a memorable and impactful restaurant environment.
More than that, the right music can lead people to associate your restaurant with pleasant memories, encourage repeat visits, and help your employees feel more energized and inspired.
With a licensed music library stretching to over 120 million tracks (the largest global music library for business), we can help you curate the perfect playlist for your brand.
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Our Case Studies
Bringing Experiences to life
Jamba Case Study
Moe's
Burger King Case Study
Fryday Case Study
Why Trust Mood for QSR Music Solutions?
Music is in our DNA. We were the first to explore how sound changes space, human emotion, and behavior. We’re the original sound designers of the modern retail world – and we’re still evolving, taking our clients’ spaces from background music to brand soundscapes.
Our global team of music supervisors, composers, and cultural experts work alongside intelligent platforms and scheduling tools to deliver the perfect audio experience at scale. It’s a delicate blend of art and algorithm that considers every element, from the customer journey and brand alignment to emotion and storytelling to global licensing and data analytics.
Consultative Approach
Forget one-size-fits-all; we work closely with your team to understand your unique needs and craft a bespoke music solution that is in tune with your goals.
Music First Mindset
With our in-depth knowledge of music trends, genres, and licensing, we curate playlists that reflect your brand and resonate with your audience.
End-to-End Solutions
We support you through every step of the process, from initial strategy and solution design to proactive music management and regular playlist updates.
Centralized Management
Control and update your music offering across multiple speakers and sites from one single centralized platform to ensure brand consistency no matter where you are in the world.
Brand Consistency
Every track is selected based on your brand attributes, customer profile, and business goals, ensuring a consistent sound.
Global Strategy
With teams based around the world and partners spanning every industry, we bring international insights and best practices to your audio strategy.
Audio Content Services
It’s all about finding the perfect harmony.
Our team offers end-to-end creative services, creating captivating soundscapes that cut through the noise, appeal to your target customer, and reflect your brand identity for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
Audio Strategy
We’ll use our years of experience and unique expertise to plan, develop, and manage your audio strategy, encompassing music, audio messaging, and ambient sounds.
Sonic Branding
By taking the time to understand your brand identity and target audience, we can create a strong and consistent sonic brand that can provide a clear framework to follow and be deployed cross-channel.
Custom Compositions
Once your audio identity is clear, we’ll work with talented composers and musicians to create original pieces that align with your objectives and are unique to you.
Music Distribution & Management
With our tried- and-tested processes, technologies, and systems, we can support you with the management and scheduling of your playlists, audio messages, and ambient sounds in multiple formats on a global scale.
Global Music Licensing
Mood Media’s extensive music licensing agreements ensure you can legally find and play music in 179 countries, including all of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. With over 120 million songs available, our music can be safely and compliantly used for curation and programming worldwide, allowing you to deliver exceptional audio experiences for your customers in the US and beyond.
An Extensive Library
Enjoy access to the world’s largest music library licensed for commercial and corporate use. Our in-house licensing team have forged partnerships with over 30,000 publishers and more than 3,500 record labels including Sony, Warner, and Universal to offer songs from both internationally renowned and emerging independent artists.
Experience and Expertise
Benefit from the long-standing relationships our expert in-house legal and music licensing teams have formed with thousands of PROs including ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and PRS, leading to licensing agreements that cover all of Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Australia, and North America.
Proactive Management
Feel reassured that your music use is fully compliant thanks to our proactive approach. As well as covering your content master and publishing rights, our team constantly monitors the global PRO industry to ensure we keep pace with any legislative changes and global commercial licensing regulations, eliminating risk.
Mood Harmony™ Music
Meet Mood Harmony, an intuitive music management system that puts you in complete control of the sound in your restaurants. Home to the world’s largest library of music for business, Mood Harmony™ offers bespoke brand-approved playlists and pre-curated programs that make scheduling and managing your music simple. Log in on desktop or mobile to control the songs playing in a single location, a region, or across your global restaurant network.
Centralized Management
Have full visibility of the songs being featured in your stores. With the Mood Harmony mobile app, you can instantly see what’s playing now, what’s played recently, and what’s coming up next no matter where you are in the world.
Dynamic Adjustments
Give feedback on individual songs by giving them a thumbs up or down in the app, select an alternative playlist from your brand-approved library, or localize the sound in a specific store by choosing songs from emerging regional artists.
Actionable Metrics
Analyze the impact of your in-store music with Harmony Reports. Ensure brand and audience alignment by viewing global music trend analytics, proof of play reporting, and user engagement either within the platform or export via API to connect with your external tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
New to music for business? Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding playlists and licensed music for quick service restaurants:
What is music for business?
Music for business is the term used to describe songs, playlists, and ambient audio that are licensed to be used in commercial spaces or marketing channels. Music for business can include original compositions, tracks by trending artists, and chart-topping hits but it’s essential that any music used or placed into playlists is fully licensed, whether you intend to use it in your restaurants, in digital marketing, or in any other form of advertising.
Why is music for business important?
Music in business can be powerful. The sound you choose to use in your restaurant can impact the mood and behaviors of your customers and employees, create emotional connections, represent your brand personality, and potentially even boost sales.
How do I choose the right music for my business?
It is important that you have a clear strategy in place when choosing the right music for your business. As the world’s leading provider of music licensing for business and experts in playlist curation, Mood Media can help you to identify the songs, artists, genres, and ambient sounds that will appeal to your target customer and reflect your brand identity. Once you have a sonic branding framework in place, you can curate a playlist of on-brand licensed tracks that can be deployed cross-channel.
Do I need a music license for my business?
If you wish to use music in a commercial environment or in your marketing, you will need to ensure it is licensed. You can negotiate licensing fees for an individual track, sonic logo, or original composition or invest in a music library that only offers fully licensed or royalty-free songs that you can use without risk of legal difficulties.
How much is a music license for my business?
The cost of a music license will depend on the number of songs you wish to use, the publisher’s terms and conditions, the size of your business, the number of locations you have, the countries you operate in, and how you intend to use each track.
Can I customize the music for my business?
You can work with a music supervisor and composer to create custom music for your business or build a curated playlist of existing tracks that are in tune with your brand.
We Partner with Every Industry
Our customized and comprehensive music for business solutions include creative strategy, sonic branding, playlist development, licensing, and ongoing support.
Retail
Restaurant
Hospitality
QSR
Automotive
Grocery
Healthcare
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