Right, which is why 49 states, soon to by joined by my state of residence Illinois, allow concealed carry. They don't know, that's the idea.
I guess what bothers me about this and other articles is that you've got an essentially gun friendly multinational company from not exactly conservative Seattle, and when they ask for no more open carry demonstrations, that was the issue, gunowners are mad at the company from liberal Seattle they honored just a couple weeks ago. Not a smart move from an advocacy perspective.
Steering a bit back to the original Hot Air article, the observation is made that Starbucks is more afraid of the leftists than they are of the gun owners. I think they’ve been trying to stay aloof of the political arguments, but they’re withering under the fire of the leftists because of the pro-gun demonstration (which I think was dumb). This “request” will eventually end up being a “ban” because the request is not going to be considered good enough by the lefties that are calling the shots.