Yahoo News – by Candice ChoiNEW YORK (AP) — Chipotle is asking customers not to bring firearms into its stores after it says gun rights advocates brought military-style assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas.
The Denver-based company notes that it has traditionally complied with local laws regarding open and concealed firearms.
But in a statement Monday, the company said that “the display of firearms in our restaurants has now created an environment that is potentially intimidating or uncomfortable for many of our customers.”
The announcement came after a petition by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which has called on other companies to ban firearms in their stores as well. The group said its petition was in reaction to open-carry gun activists appearing at a Dallas-area Chipotle restaurant over the weekend.
Erika Soto Lamb, a spokeswoman for the group, said she thought the move by Chipotle was a “bold statement,” especially considering its previous stance of complying with local laws.
Many states allow people to carry licensed guns in some way, but some businesses exercise their right to ban firearms.
A Chipotle spokesman didn’t immediately respond when asked if the company’s request was an outright ban, or how it would respond if people continued to bring firearms into its restaurants.
Last year, Starbucks Corp. also told customers that guns were no longer welcome in its cafes after it had to temporarily close a store in Newtown, Connecticut, to avoid a demonstration by gun rights advocates. The company said it shut down the store out of respect for the community, where 20 school children and six educators had been slain.
The Seattle-based coffee chain stopped short of a ban, however, saying it didn’t want to put its workers in the position of having to ask people carrying guns to leave its stores. Its carefully worded decision also underscored how major companies need to walk a fine line on highly divisive political issues.
Likewise, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. noted in its statement that “there are strong arguments on both sides of this issue.” It said it hoped that customers who oppose carrying guns in public agree that “it is the role of elected officials and the legislative process to set policy in this area.”
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Easy answer: Don’t bring your money to chipotle.
Add them to the list JD.
That’s it, Bulldog. Don’t give ’em a dime.
Chipotle can keep their stinking burritos, and their lousy coffee. They’re owned by McDonald’s anyway, so there’s no telling how they’re poisoning you. One way they’re poisoning you is with their tortillas, which are undoubtedly made with GMO corn.
I make better burritos at home anyway, and I stuff ’em with real food instead of the dirt-cheap rice and bean garbage Chipotle tries to sell you.
They’re probably charging you 5 or 6 bux for a dime’s worth of rice and beans, and stuffing a quarter’s worth of meat in there just to make it official. Do you have money to toss in the trash like that?
JR,
I had no clue that mc donalds owned them. I haven’t been inside one anyway and definitely wont now. We try not to go to big corp restaurants. They don’t actually prepare any food. They just thaw out what is frozen and shipped to them.
that Costco $5 chicken is hard core though. Can do enchalada, taco, or whaaaaat eva and she’s already steaming cooked.
I did very very low mix with these chicken DASH diet basically.. anyway, they work, and hella cooked good, not burned.
Don’t think I seen a cheaper chicken, but then I have not chickens.
FINALLY GOT A DOG AGAIN THOUGH!! ;o)
~woof~
keeps me up at 12, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 3, 5, 7, 9….argh..
but he has a cute ass whatever
were going from 3 weeks to 3 months
the fun years
where’s the water and boats?
trails and bikes?
moof
It is still okay for gay people to display their filth at Chipotle.
Oh God… I haven’t been to a Chipotle in many years. Is it a gay hang-out now too?
Well there’s another reason to boycott them. You’ll never know what you might catch in there. If someone has 300 different sex partners per year, you don’t want to be breathing the same air.
Thanks for posting this article. I will keep my dollars in my pocket for a better restaurant when I go out.
dunno if any one said it but I am boycott them. Until they change their ways.
Mostly I don’t eat fast food, but I will el Polo Loco taco salad (without the flour) up when faced with choices
Also I do, have known to get Carls Jr Lettuce Wrapped burger.
that’s at least on my list. And they got the good flavor at least. If ya have zero choices with bread and crap.
There are many Chiptole restaurants around here in Dallas. However, not many people go there and since I refuse to eat at Mexican restaurants because half of them are run by illegals who can’t even speak the English language and who get a free pass on business regulations, this just makes me hate them even more. I guess their scared that Texans are gonna shoot their illegal asses one of these days. Don’t know what’s taking them so long in doing it.