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Two Chains Ask Diners to Keep Guns out of Restaurants
NewsMax / Reuters ^ | June 1, 2014

Posted on 06/01/2014 6:26:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Two national chain restaurants have asked that customers refrain from bringing firearms into their establishments, saying the weapons can create an uncomfortable atmosphere for other diners.

Sonic Drive-In and Chili's Grill & Bar both issued statements Friday requesting that customers keep their guns out of their restaurants even if they have an open carry permit.

The request, which stops short of an outright ban, came after members of the gun-rights group Open Carry Texas walked into Texas outlets of Sonic and Chili's carrying assault rifles.

Dallas-based Brinker International, which owns the Chili's chain, said in a statement it was dedicated to providing "a safe environment for our guests and team members."

"We recognize that the open carry of firearms creates an uncomfortable atmosphere and is not permitted under many local liquor laws," spokeswoman Ashley Johnson said....

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: banglist; economy; food; freepmuch; restaurants
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To: paul544; vbmoneyspender

I read it just like Paul, it’s the article and quoted in the first post.


41 posted on 06/01/2014 7:40:00 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: paul544

I agree. If I were eating in a restaurant and saw a group of people walk in with AR’s I would immediately suspect something was about to go horribly wrong. The same group with holstered handguns would be a completely different story.


42 posted on 06/01/2014 7:41:04 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: BeadCounter
Why use the terminology of the left? To the left, every rifle is an 'assault rifle.'

On another point, some people on this board apparently think that it is bad form to impolitely assert ones constitutional rights and to engage in the tactics of confrontation in order to advance conservative causes. Those people apparently have not been paying attention for the last 40 to 50 years with regard to how the left has successfully used such tactics to advance their various causes.

43 posted on 06/01/2014 7:49:28 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Isn’t Sonic a notorious donor to the Rat Party?


44 posted on 06/01/2014 7:52:23 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Sonic and Chili's, you do realize that nearly all of the multiple shootings by these looney toon jerkwads happen in gun free zones?
45 posted on 06/01/2014 7:54:20 PM PDT by cashless (Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
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To: WildHighlander57

Was in Austin last week. Sign number 2 is EVERYWHERE!


46 posted on 06/01/2014 7:55:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slow learners.


47 posted on 06/01/2014 8:08:14 PM PDT by lurk
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To: vbmoneyspender

You’re right friend. I was thinking perhaps they were AR 15s or similar, that’s the way I read it but you are correct, the press can overstate the situation.


48 posted on 06/01/2014 8:11:56 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: Gay State Conservative
Isn’t Sonic a notorious donor to the Rat Party?

Sounds like it, almost sounded like the owner could have been a Clinton croney. Reading the wiki article it sounds like Sonic was started originally by a milkman so it has probably gone through some ownership-changes since those days.

49 posted on 06/01/2014 8:14:17 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sonic?????

You don’t “go in to” a Sonic!

You drive thru or get served in your parking space by a car hop!


50 posted on 06/01/2014 8:30:52 PM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I took a look at Sonic’s Facebook page. Looks to me like a bunch of Moms That Need Some Action and their metrosexual pw’d husbands have been called to action, lots of them from back east (like I worry about what some idiot Bloomberg-brigade woman from New Jersey thinks!). Being in Oklahoma, I may let Sonic know what I think about this, or I may just silently never return to their drive-in.


51 posted on 06/01/2014 8:33:49 PM PDT by aragorn (We do indeed live in interesting times. FUBO.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Exactly. Looking to shock and bully the women, immigrants, and college-age kids who work fast food and chain restaurants. That’s why I find these “protests” so contemptible. You’re going out of your way to scare women and children.

Where I live, there’s a bar called the Rock Store off Mulholland Drive where every big Harley owner in leather gathers every Sunday. Why not have one of your long gun open carry protests there, and insist you’re not looking for a fight?

Yeah. I didn’t think so...


52 posted on 06/01/2014 8:49:53 PM PDT by Blue Ink
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll say what I said earlier. Show up there with your family, ask the babe (politely) if they have a problem with concealed guns. If they say yes, then have your wife say something like “Black Angus (or whatever)” is good with concealed guns, and you say, “ok, hun, let’s all go there instead”.

If we simply don’t show, they’ll never know that we’re boycotting - we do not have a good record with successes.


53 posted on 06/01/2014 9:11:35 PM PDT by BobL
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To: elteemike

Same here. If they don’t want the free security that comes from having armed and trained patrons, then they don’t want my business. Well, they don’t get it now. One of my kids is friends with some of the kids that work at Sonic. We here stories. .. As for chili’s, I don’t care for their food, so I don’t go there on the rare occasions we do go out. We tend to go to places a couple of rungs higher on the ladder.


54 posted on 06/01/2014 9:54:23 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: clamper1797

Good point. No one will ever know unless I have to draw it. In that case, they are going to be thankful I’m there.


55 posted on 06/01/2014 10:01:25 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sonic is a drive thru not a go in and sit.


56 posted on 06/01/2014 10:03:00 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Rodamala

My truck has a gun too. But, we must keep them away from SUVs.


57 posted on 06/01/2014 10:14:01 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: bgill

Up thread someone stated that they now have some sit down locations.


58 posted on 06/01/2014 10:14:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think we need to make a distinction between not wanting the open-carry of modern sporting rifles and the banning all firearms, to include concealed carry. If a business wants to ban the open carry of rifles in an urban environment, I can live with that. Where I draw the line is banning all firearms, even concealed. That is when you lose my business.
59 posted on 06/01/2014 10:52:13 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sonic is average quality drive in

Chilis has gone to crap since the ex pot smuggler founder sold out to Pillsbury in mid 80s

In the late 70s Chilies chiliburgers and fries at the Austin and Dallas stores were incredible


60 posted on 06/01/2014 11:03:30 PM PDT by wardaddy (we will not take back our way of life through peaceful means.....i have 5 kids....i fear for them)
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