Design-build audiovisual for New Orleans restaurants, bars, hotels, and venues, built for owners who sign their own checks and rooms that carry the whole business.
Most cities we work in, the AV decision crawls through layers: a facilities department, an IT review, a committee that meets monthly. New Orleans barely has those layers, and it's one of the best things about working here. The commercial base of this city is independent to a degree the rest of the country forgot how to be, restaurants owned by the family in the kitchen, bars owned by the person behind them, venues run by whoever's name is on the lease. The buyer is the operator. They decide fast, they know their room better than any consultant ever will, and they don't have an IT department to lean on when something breaks at nine on a Friday. That last part shapes everything we build here.
Crunchy Tech designs for exactly that owner. Systems simple enough to run mid-rush without a manual, because there's no tech staff coming. Controls that hand the room to whoever's working, not whoever was trained. Support that answers fast and fixes remotely, because a one-location operator can't absorb downtime the way a chain absorbs it, and about 47% of our tickets close in under an hour with nobody on site. Behind that sits the discipline the simplicity depends on: real engineering, a rack proven at our shop before it rides to the site, install, tune, train, document. One company, accountable to one owner, which is the only org chart this city has ever really trusted. Since 2008.
What We Do Here
Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in New Orleans — never subcontracted.
01 / NEW ORLEANSAV consulting from an audio visual consultant who joins at the architectural phase, designs the technology into the plan and steers the project around your business outcome.
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Commercial video walls across LED, LCD and Direct View. Designed, integrated, installed and supported by a national design-build AV integrator.
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03 / NEW ORLEANSCommercial sound system design and installation: multi-zone audio engineered around how your space is used, wired and tuned on site, and supported as a partner.
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Design-build digital signage for hospitality and enterprise: commercial displays, content management, and installation that keeps your screens selling and current.
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Design-build AV control systems: one iPad, wall panel, or browser runs every display, audio zone, lighting scene, and source in the room. Programmed and supported in-house.
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AV programming that starts with the right design: a vetted, interconnectable stack unified into one control system, so the whole room runs from one simple interface.
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Conference room AV designed around the people using the room: video conferencing, Zoom and Teams Rooms, displays, and audio, installed and supported as a partner.
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Spaces we've wired across New Orleans — each built and supported by the same local crew.
The Quarter and the CBD, the Warehouse District, Magazine Street and Uptown, the Marigny and Bywater, and out through Metairie and the parishes.
Gulf air works on electronics twelve months a year here, so enclosures, connectors, and rack rooms get specified for permanent damp, not occasional.
Everything mounted outside gets anchored for real wind and chosen for water intrusion, and rack elevation gets decided against the flood history of the actual address.
Summer here is long and serious, so outdoor components need thermal margin and equipment rooms need dedicated cooling that holds 75 degrees.
The courtyard is this city's signature room and it works most of the calendar, which justifies weather-rated gear on its own zone with its own curfew.
What we do here
Four kinds of rooms fill our New Orleans work, and nearly all of them share one trait: the person who bought the system is standing in the room it runs.
New Orleans dining rooms carry a reputation the owners protect personally, and sound is a bigger part of it than most realize. The building stock fights hard here, since so many rooms are nineteenth-century shells with plaster, tall ceilings, and floors that have heard everything, and a careless speaker layout turns a full house into a roar that drowns the very conviviality people came for. Coverage comes from many small sources run gently, zones let the bar hum while the tables converse, and courtyards, this city's secret weapon, get their own channel and their own weather-rated gear. One honest boundary: if a room's echo problem is the architecture itself, the fix is absorption by another trade, and we'll say so before you spend a dollar on speakers that can't reach it.
Live music isn't an event in this city, it's a Tuesday, and an installed system either coexists with musicians or gets unplugged by them. Our approach keeps the lanes clean. The stage area lives on its own zone that steps aside during a set, the rest of the room keeps serving, and a single preset brings the house back when the last song ends. We do not book talent, we do not mix live shows, and we do not do production camera work. A visiting player finds a labeled tie-in and no interference. The other reality of late rooms here is staffing, since the person closing at 3 a.m. is often the newest hire, so the controls get built for them: one panel, obvious buttons, nothing that requires remembering how last night was set.
Hotel work here means the lobby, the restaurant, the courtyard, the rooftop, and the meeting rooms, never the guest room itself, and the properties range from big flags to twelve-room inns in converted townhouses. The small independents are the distinctly New Orleans work, since a boutique property in an old building has the same guest expectations as a flag and a fraction of the staff, which makes simple controls and remote support worth more than any feature list. Courtyards and rooftops earn year-round in this climate and face its full menu, humidity that never leaves, salt in the air on some blocks, summer heat, and a hurricane season everything outdoor gets rated against. The systems stay zoned so the pool deck, the lobby, and the bar each hold their own character under one interface.
This city produces spaces that fit no template, converted churches, warehouse galleries, halls that have hosted a century of everything, and their owners usually want the technology to disappear into the architecture rather than compete with it. That's placement work, aim and count over volume, equipment tucked into bones the building already has, and zoning that lets one room host a seated dinner, a second line, and a quiet Tuesday in the same week without anyone touching more than a preset. Where a project carries preservation review, what may be touched gets settled with your architect and the reviewing body before anything is specified. Our own limits hold too, since the electrical belongs to your licensed electrician and the structural calls belong to your engineer, never to us. The building's dignity survives the install. That's the assignment.
You're the client this city is made of, and honestly, the client this company grew up on. Crunchy Tech has been doing this since 2008, and we started as a support operation before we ever designed a thing, which means our roots are in keeping systems alive for businesses that couldn't afford them dead. A single-location owner doesn't need a scaled-down version of a chain's process. You need the fundamentals done honestly at your size: a design matched to what your room actually earns, equipment graded for commercial hours without gold-plating you'll never use, and controls simple enough that anyone on your staff runs the room on their second shift. Where the size genuinely changes things is stakes, since a chain shrugs off a down room and you can't, so we weight reliability over cleverness, build zones so failures stay small, and answer support fast because your Friday can't wait for Monday. The consult costs you a conversation. Bring the room's problems and we'll bring straight answers, including it's fine, don't spend yet, when that's the truth.
By knowing its place, which is the part most installed systems get wrong in this city. Your house system's job is everything around the music: the room before doors, the breaks between sets, the far zones where people are eating while the band plays up front, and the hour after the last note when the night winds down. The stage is the musicians' territory, and the design honors that with a hard line. Their zone drops out of the house program on a preset, they get a labeled, documented tie-in point if they want to touch the house at all, and nobody from our side hovers. We do not book talent, we do not mix live shows, and we do not do production camera work. What the design does insist on is the recovery, one button that returns the whole room to normal after load-out, because at 2 a.m. nobody should be rebalancing zones from memory. Done right, the players trust the room, your staff stops fearing the system, and the house sound earns its keep in the twenty hours a day the stage sits empty.
The honest split isn't between brands, it's between gear rated for permanent damp and gear that was never asked the question. New Orleans humidity isn't an event, it's the baseline, and it works on everything: connectors corrode from the inside, cheap enclosure gaskets swell and give, adhesives let go, and electronics in uncooled rooms age on double time. So the money goes where the moisture goes. Outdoor and courtyard equipment gets genuine weather ratings, marine-grade hardware on the blocks where salt rides the air, and enclosures chosen for intrusion rather than looks. Indoors, the single highest-value dollar is the equipment room, dedicated cooling holding 75 degrees with the rack up off any floor that's ever seen water, because we've opened closets in this city where the humidity had been quietly eating the electronics for years and the repair bill read like a haunting. Hurricane season adds its own list, anchoring rated for real wind and surge protection as standard equipment, not an option. What's a waste: consumer gear outdoors, any enclosure marketed on appearance, and every dollar spent before the rack room is right.
Different parish, different everything on paper, and it surprises operators constantly. Orleans and Jefferson run separate permitting, separate reviewers, and separate rhythms, so the approvals for your Metairie room start fresh no matter what the city already blessed, and if you're eyeing the Northshore, St. Tammany is a third world again with a causeway in the middle. That's our paperwork to carry, not yours, and we keep it native to each parish: right filings, right inspectors, right sequence, with honest scheduling instead of city assumptions smuggled across the line. What crosses the parish line untouched is the operation itself. Your interface, your presets, your staff training, identical in both rooms, so the manager who covers a shift across town already knows the system cold, and the documentation stays uniform so support doesn't care which parish the ticket came from. About 47% of our tickets close remotely in under an hour on either side of the line. The parishes get their separate paperwork, your staff gets one system, and the only person juggling both realities is us, which is what you hired.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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"Where's my quote?"
Read article arrow_forwardTell us the address, what the room does for the business, and who actually runs it day to day, because we design for that person. The consult covers what the space earns, the walk covers what the building and its parish will allow, and the deliverable is an engineered scope with honest priorities, reliability first, spectacle strictly optional.
