[Ay Dios Mio]

About a month ago I stopped into my favorite Mexican Restaurant on my way home to get my usual carry-out order.

While I was waiting in the vestibule I was looking around at family photos, etc. and noticed a NO WEAPONS allowed sign citing their liquor license being incompatible with weapons on the premises.

I read it several times trying to figure out why they had the sign up and just became sad knowing I wouldn't be going back in to patronize them anymore and they're already really slow and not doing as well as they were a few years ago.

So today when I was driving through town I thought I'd get Mexican to-go and there's a new place in town I hadn't tried yet, so I was hoping the new place would be my new favorite. I went in and ordered the way more expensive food and when I asked about chips and salsa with the to-go order, the waitress said it would be extra. Grrrrrr.

So I just said, no thanks and went back down the road to the other place with the "No Weapons" sign.

It was dinner time and there wasn't a single table of diners so I was chatting at the register with the owner and thought I'd say something about the sign.

I asked him to come over to the sign and showed it to him and said I didn't think it was right that the sign mentioned their liquor license and no weapons since it wasn't really a bar, and from my understanding of the sign they had posted, if it was true that weapons weren't allowed in the dining room, then the kids that were always in there sitting at the front booth doing their homework on their laptops after school wouldn't be allowed in there waiting on their mom to get off work.

I told him I'd been in other restaurants that had an actual bar with barstools, but that kids could be in the separate dining room and I thought this sign wasn't right for his premises.

He agreed with me and said he didn't know who put it up and said he'd take it down.

I thought he was just blowing smoke, but when I got my bag of food and went out to my work truck, I was parked right outside the picture window out front and watched him take the sign down.

[Triple7]

Interesting.....and good for the owner.
Maybe I should try this at Buffalo Wild Wings..... I could show up with the 12 guys and their families I play softball with and then ask the manager if he would like our business or not..since we go there every Tuesday for the past 4 years.
Then walk out if he says he can't do anything about it

[HollowHead]

Keep in mind that there are signs posted in businesses everywhere that are there only because they are insurance requirements. "No Firearms" signs are about as meaningful as "No Customers Beyond This Point" at Midas. Do you really think that restaurants would post, "Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work" signs in the bathrooms if they didn't have to? HH

[gwalchmai]

They may just mean "No Mexican Carry"...

[Caver 60]

You did the right thing by talking respectfully to the owner, rather than just leaving and not telling him why. Several no gun signs around here have came down in the last few years. I know I played a role in getting at least one such sign removed a few years ago.

[samuse]

I Mexican carried in a Mexican restaurant today!

[RGbiker]

With all the fat and sodium in Mexican food, you should heed the sign and not eat there.

You'll live longer.

[cowboy1964]

The owner didn't know who put the sign up??

[Wyoming]

Originally Posted by Ay Dios Mio

About a month ago I stopped into my favorite Mexican Restaurant on my way home to get my usual carry-out order.

While I was waiting in the vestibule I was looking around at family photos, etc. and noticed a NO WEAPONS allowed sign citing their liquor license being incompatible with weapons on the premises.

I read it several times trying to figure out why they had the sign up and just became sad knowing I wouldn't be going back in to patronize them anymore and they're already really slow and not doing as well as they were a few years ago.

So today when I was driving through town I thought I'd get Mexican to-go and there's a new place in town I hadn't tried yet, so I was hoping the new place would be my new favorite. I went in and ordered the way more expensive food and when I asked about chips and salsa with the to-go order, the waitress said it would be extra. Grrrrrr.

So I just said, no thanks and went back down the road to the other place with the "No Weapons" sign.

It was dinner time and there wasn't a single table of diners so I was chatting at the register with the owner and thought I'd say something about the sign.

I asked him to come over to the sign and showed it to him and said I didn't think it was right that the sign mentioned their liquor license and no weapons since it wasn't really a bar, and from my understanding of the sign they had posted, if it was true that weapons weren't allowed in the dining room, then the kids that were always in there sitting at the front booth doing their homework on their laptops after school wouldn't be allowed in there waiting on their mom to get off work.

I told him I'd been in other restaurants that had an actual bar with barstools, but that kids could be in the separate dining room and I thought this sign wasn't right for his premises.

He agreed with me and said he didn't know who put it up and said he'd take it down.

I thought he was just blowing smoke, but when I got my bag of food and went out to my work truck, I was parked right outside the picture window out front and watched him take the sign down.

Good story.

[cowboywannabe]

welp, since its a mexican restuarant just tellem you got your gun from obama/holder.

[BEER]

it's just mexican food, there's a billion vendors out there. find a new one and move on.

[Desert Duck]

Originally Posted by cowboywannabe

welp, since its a mexican restuarant just tellem you got your gun from obama/holder.

Okay... That's pretty funny.

.... Just don't try the fast and furious chips and salsa...

[BEER]

Originally Posted by Desert Duck

Okay... That's pretty funny.

.... Just don't try the fast and furious chips and salsa...

some of the taco shacks i've eaten in don't give you a choice. the salsa is going to go through you "fast and furious" no matter what.

[sombunya]

Originally Posted by RGbiker

With all the fat and sodium in Mexican food, you should heed the sign and not eat there.

You'll live longer.

A healthy person who routinely eats a healthy diet can occasionally eat Mexican food, or any kind of food, with no bad effects whatsoever.

[Harper]

Originally Posted by sombunya

A healthy person who routinely eats a healthy diet can occasionally eat Mexican food, or any kind of food, with no bad effects whatsoever.

I believe you can regularly eat any food as long as it fits in with your macros. I know eating a large meal of mexican food everyday won't work with most people though.

[airmotive]

Originally Posted by samuse

I Mexican carried in a Mexican restaurant today!

Mexican Carry-Out = Open Carry, Mexican style?

[etc1006]

Mexican carry means you have it on the table while grubbin'!

[el_jewapo]

Originally Posted by samuse

I Mexican carried in a Mexican restaurant today!

I saw a Mexican doing that.

[Pilotdude3407]

In GA signs mean nothing. You can still carry (except for govt buildings) and if caught they can just ask you to leave. If you refuse it can become criminal trespass but the sign doesn't make any difference.

[Gareth68]

Sign, sign, everywhere a sign
Blockin' out the scenery, breakin' my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign?