[Old Sarge]

Twin Peaks - is the Log Lady okay?

[Albion Wilde]

Sanity prevails. Unimaginable that the franchise owner would have encouraged these gangs to meet in the middle of a conventional shopping mall patronized by families and children.

[MrEdd]

It’s the seventies again.

Sure, it starts out small with biker drug gang rumbles and dead bikers.

But if this escalates there could be disco.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The Twin Peaks chain revoked the restaurant's franchise agreement after the Waco location failed to comply with police requests not to serve bikers at the event, according to the statement:

Wait a second! I thought we had to serve everybody no matter what. And now that are being punished for serving people who ride motorcycles? This is discrimination against the otherly wheeled!

[Balding_Eagle]

Well, OK.

This action may trigger events that will allow us to see the truth about their ‘co-operation’ with police.

[Moonman62]

Waco Biker Melee: Bandidos Gang Described as “Baddest of the Bad”

...

So this was non-white violence unless they were all named Zimmerman.

[Veggie Todd]

The Twin Peaks chain revoked the restaurant's franchise agreement after the Waco location failed to comply with police requests not to serve bikers at the event, according to the statement:

Yeah, if they were refused service, the bikers would have just left peacefully.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The Twin Peaks chain revoked the restaurant's franchise agreement after the Waco location failed to comply with police requests not to serve bikers at the event,

Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If they had complies with the police, the bikers' ire might have been directed at the restaurant and its employees instead of each other.

[Snickering Hound]

Twin Peaks Corporate is going to be buried in lawsuits from customers from that Waco restaurant for years to come.

[envisio]

Sounds like alot of politics and drama between the bar, the franchise, the police and the local commerce.
It probably goes way back and has a whole lot more to it than what we hear on the news.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

North Texas-based restaurant chain Twin Peaks Monday revoked the franchise status of the Waco location that became a battleground in a brutal biker gang melee that left nine people dead Sunday, the company said in a statement.

[WayneS]

Here's something I had not seen/heard in the news coverage of this event:

Gunshots left bodies scattered throughout the parking lot, but it’s not clear if they were killed by fellow bikers or police officers.

It's from this article:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/rival-motorcycle-gangs-behind-shooting-texas-restaurant-article-1.2225691

[moovova]

New name...

The “Shootout Bar & Grill” has real chalk lines on the floor.

[Biggirl]

After having taken most of yesterday a day off from the internet, early this morning, to my surprise, I have come upon an article online about a BIG fight by two rival motorcycle gangs in TX. Have not heard of motocycle gangs at all, let alone news of such in MANY YEARS now.

[T-Bird45]

Also on Sunday, Jay Patel, the operator of the Waco restaurant, released the following statement: "We are horrified by the criminal, violent acts that occurred outside of our Waco restaurant today. We share in the community's trauma. Our priority is to provide a safe and enjoyable environment for our customers and employees, and we consider the police our partners in doing so. Our management team has had ongoing and positive communications with the police and we will continue to work with them as we all want to keep violent crime out of our businesses and community. We will continue to cooperate with the police as they investigate this terrible crime.”

I think I see the problem here...try reading it like you're talking to "Jay" at the 1-800 Helpdesk.

[RitaOK]

Jay Patel, Operator.

Don’t the Patels’ own every hotel between the east and west by now? All of them are owned by someone named Patel.

In the pgraph above the last, Patel is quoted speaking of his cooperation with the police, in a story based on his lack of cooperation, to the extent of losing the new franchise.

Go figure.

[BigCinBigD]

Can I have the Moose?

[ChocChipCookie]

I can’t imagine why the restaurant wouldn’t allow police officers in at an event that had the potential for trouble, much less something like this.

[bgill]

“the Waco location failed to comply with police requests not to serve bikers at the event... the management wanted them here, and so we didn’t have any say-so on whether they could be here or not”

Now wait just a minute. If bakeries have to serve homosexuals then how the heck are bikers gangs any different? And when did we become a police state where cops can tell business owners who they can and can not serve? The more that comes out on this, the more I smell a set up. The cops knew about the meeting of REGULAR riders online along with other REGULAR clubs’ events ( http://localendar.com/public/ucoctadmin - check out the page to see club events like Disciples For Christ MM 1st Annual Jericho Run). This police spokesperson has been over the top since hour one. Not that thugs don’t deserve justice but not if all this was an undercover sting which could have innocent victims.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Cash in on their fame! Rename it THE BUCKET OF BLOOD RESTARUANT. There used to be a BUCKET OF BLOOD bar west of Farmington NM about 60 years ago.

People will travel thousands of miles to eat over the blood stains on the floor!

I can see it now, T shirts! BUCKET OF BLOOD, WACO TX! “If you come in with an attitude, you don't leave!”