widowmaker45
New member
about a week ago my girlfriend and i went to applebees in bonney lake like we have a hundred times before. it was a hot day so i was wearing shorts and a t-shirt and open carring like i have at this resturant before without issue. we sat down ordered our drinks and began to look over the menu, about this time a manger came over name kurt. he crouched down by my table with a smile and asked me if i was law enforcement. i said no sir he replied with "can i get you to put your peice in your car" i replied no we will just leave he began to back pedal saying "well i dont want you to do that" we have a quick conversation over my rights and how im legal ect standard issue and we left. I later got home still upset over the issue i called and asked to speak with the manager. a woman spoke with me i didnt catch her name we spoke about my what had happen she was nice and apologized said she would look into it and ask her higher ups to see if kurt was right or not. she took my phone number and said she would call me back. it had been almost two weeks i had not heard anything so i called and spoke with kurt he agreed that he was aware i was legally caring and stated that he was told no firearms were allowed in the resturant in training. this oviously got my attention he told me he would make a call and call me right back. when kurt called back he stated that he had spoken with Dan kresbach,(I may have that spelled incorectley) Dan said their final decision on this was "no concealed firearms allowed because they are a family resturant" i informed kurt i would be writting a letter to corporate and telling my story on opencarry.org so here i am.
i asking for the NEXT STEP from some more experianced members who may have written letters, i feel at least they shoud have a sign up and our members should be aware of this. open to hear what you guys have to say i have been open carring for over a year now ever since i fould this site. so far all of my encounters have been positive. had a couple by me and my daughter doughnuts just for open carring and numerous other great conversations started over the site of my side arm. i will not stop open carring i will just avoid thoes places that do not allow my firearm to come with me. i like applebees because it is a family resturant that being said i will continue to protect my family. if he would have simply asked me to cover it up i would have left . nor made this much of a stink out of it. maybe this is just the price of open carring i dont really know thats what im posting so please give me some advice ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for taking the time..
i asking for the NEXT STEP from some more experianced members who may have written letters, i feel at least they shoud have a sign up and our members should be aware of this. open to hear what you guys have to say i have been open carring for over a year now ever since i fould this site. so far all of my encounters have been positive. had a couple by me and my daughter doughnuts just for open carring and numerous other great conversations started over the site of my side arm. i will not stop open carring i will just avoid thoes places that do not allow my firearm to come with me. i like applebees because it is a family resturant that being said i will continue to protect my family. if he would have simply asked me to cover it up i would have left . nor made this much of a stink out of it. maybe this is just the price of open carring i dont really know thats what im posting so please give me some advice ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for taking the time..