Dave & Busters

[bogie]

http://www.missouricarry.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1773

Guys, take a moment, and drop 'em a line... Maybe you've never seen one, maybe you don't intend to patronize 'em, whatever. The point is, they've got a sign up, and we gotta let 'em know to take it down.

http://www.daveandbusters.com/misc/contact_us.asp?f=1

No e-mail, but their phone number is 214-357-9588. Since I don't pay for long distance on my cell, I'm gonna call 'em, and see if this is a corporate policy, or if some manager is trying to invent some rules...

The "event planner" at the restaurant in question is [email protected]

 

[Average Guy]

First link requires registration. I assume they're forbidding CCW inside. Which is funny, considering all the firearms-related video games they have in there.

 

[freeride21a]

I know in many states you are not allowed to carry in a bar or establishment that makes at least 51% of their money from selling alcohol(iirc)... consider that in every room at the D&B's by me has a bar in the middle of it... it could fall under that same type of rule. I dont drink when i go there tho.. i go to play games.

To sum it all up, I consider Dave and Busters a bar, hence no ccw allowed.

 

[CleverNickname]

I don't think D&B gets 51% of their income from alcohol. In addition to alcohol sales, they also sell food and have all the games. Also, last time I was at a D&B (in Houston), they didn't have a 51% sign as would be required by TX law if they did have >51% alcohol sales.

They didn't have a 30.06 sign up either, so I would assume whatever sign they've got up in their Missouri location is a local management decision and not a national one (?).

 

[BerettaNut92]

Never been to D&Bs out here...do the CA ones forbid carry?

 

[Average Guy]

Never been to D&Bs out here...do the CA ones forbid carry?

Not that I've noticed. But then, *nobody* has a CCW in CA, so it's academic at best. And can you imagine the uproar if they DID post a sign?

"What the--? You mean there might be people with guns around here? Eek!"

 

[papercut]

Metro Atlanta has two D&Bs. I live across the interstate from one of them, and for a year and a half I worked across the interstate from the other (these were different interstate highways, btw). All D&B, all the time.

freeride21a remarked:
I know in many states you are not allowed to carry in a bar or establishment that makes at least 51% of their money from selling alcohol

In Georgia, if they serve alcohol at all, it's off limits. (Note the word "serve"--a store that sells but doesn't have a license to let customers consume on the premesis isn't covered by that.)

 

[aguyindallas]

I have personally met "Dave and Buster" Both are very nice guys. Dave is a slim business type. Buster is the guy that wears a big Texas (large chrome, you know the steroetype, lol) belt buckle. It was funny seeing him get out of a little red Mercedes Coupe.

I am surprised to hear that they are anti. Their corporate HQ is not in the best part of North Dallas and is basically around the corner from a ton of strip clubs and local ladies of the street.

I will drop them a line, and encourage everyone to do it too. I would be willing to bet that at the very least, you could get through to Dave or Busters personal secretary. They were nice ladies to me in the past when I met them. Get your message across to them and ask them to have Buster call you back.

 

[bogie]

Guys, the world is NOT black and white...

Just because some managerial type in a restaurant in St. Louis decides that he should post signage (guys, you REALLY need to e-mail the folks at www.schnucks.com - you may never have heard of 'em, but it's _the_ major grocer in the St. Louis area, and folks have been seeing their signs every day... If Schnuck's does it, other folks will...) doesn't mean that the business as a whole is "anti." HOWEVER, the business as a whole needs to understand that until the sign comes down, you cannot patronize 'em.

 

[flatrock]

In Ohio you can't carry in any place that serves alcohol for consumption on the premesis, so we can't carry in D&B regardless of their policies.

I am curious if they have a corporate policy concerning concealed carry.

 

[SodiumBenzoate]

The Dave & Busters in Philly has no sign - but then again, signs in Pennsylvania (I have never seen one) are not mentioned in the law, so I assume they have no legal standing.

It is legal to carry in a bar, also, so it isn't that they don't need a sign.

Because of this, I'm 99% sure it's a local decision.