While I prefer other genres of music, hearing the classics never bothered me.
Wait till you realize that that classical stuff was composed by WHITE men.
I’ve also read articles where they use the high frequency buzzing sound of mosquitoes to the same affect on younger “problematic“ lingerers outside of convenience stores.
It seems as we grow older, we lose the upper range hearing necessary to hear the irritating little buggers sound as they buzz around our heads. So the majority of adults patronizing these locations are relatively unaffected by the sound.
But younger adults and teenagers can clearly hear it. And it apparently is so much of a distraction that they’ll leave rather than endure it.
As for classical music, I’m not sure this is the same case. They (the teenagers and young adults) actually listen to classical music (or music in the classical style played by orchestras) all the time in the form of movie and television show soundtracks. There doesn’t seem to be any objection to that type of music in those settings. So it is probably more of a cultural dislike.
However, if you really want to drive them away, play classic Chinese vocal music, Peking opera specifically. Unfortunately, it is also not well tolerated by non-Chinese speaking adults. So you would run the risk of loosing patrons and staff if you chose to play it.
CERTAINLY beats the “Call To Prayer” multiple times a day in blaring tones, which Minneapolis is allowing.
So, I had a brain flash. Maybe I should turn the tables. The next day, I brought my opera cds with me. They parked next to me, so I rolled down my windows and played my famous opera arias CD at a high volume. You never saw young people winding up their windows so fast.
Hopefully, it was a lesson in teaching them that your music may not be something that other people want to listen to.