PANERA is NOT GUN FRIENDLY

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Call me slow, but I'm still trying to correlate how blocking 'guns' from the internet affects someone physically bringing a weapon to the store. :confused: Is there some new technology I'm not a aware of? Can you now download a gun torrent and a gun magicly appears in your optical drive bay, loaded and ready to go?
 
I will add that this was at the Panera in Valparaiso, Indiana. I am sure it is not corporate policy be as dumb as this manager was ;) I wrote to corporate and I am waiting for their reply. I will be sure to post it on here first thing!
 
I can't say that I frown on Panera for blocking Gun Sites. The Panera's around me all offer free WiFi....they pay for it and thus I believe they have the right to filter out whatever they deem offensive.

I wouldn't want to sit down there to eat and watch some guy next to me downloading from GayMulletPorn dot com......

However, her attitude about someone bringing in a gun is rediculous. If they were to become an official 'gun free' zone then i'd be outta there pronto and never return.

Maybe i'll have to open carry into a few of my local panera's and see what the reaction is.
 
I love Panera's food. My girlfriends and I hang out there each week with their kids. It's kinda like a mom's or moms-to-be group. I carry to protect all of them (and myself), but none of them know it. They are all quite naive and may be afraid of guns especially with all their small babies crawling around. I don't usually get online there since we're all talking and stuff. I'll continue to go to be with my girls.

I do love their bread though.

Gus
 
I must be one of the few human beings on earth who has never been in a Starbucks yet.
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Nope... at the ripe old age of 47, I have drank exactly 1 cup of coffee in my life. And it made a repeat performance 15 minutes later.
 
We used to go to Panera all the time to watch the hot chicks. Then they dropped the Cuban Sandwich off the menu and replaced it with an Avacado Panini.
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What a coincidence! That's why I stopped going as well, although I'm not sure what they replaced the Cuban sandwich with here.
 
She said that she would not allow "GUNS" in the store if state law allowed her to ban them
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Yeah, cuz, like, once the bad guy, like, notices the gun ban, he won't bother robbing you. Yeah.
 
The Panera Breads in the Columbus, OH area don't seem to be so anti-gun. I've surfed AR15.com and a couple other gun sites on their wi-fi service. I've carried several times in there and have not seen any "No Weapons signs" I've seen at other places.
 
Okay... Looks like we've got a few blazing geniuses here...

Whoopee. You carried someplace.

That's not the point.

The point is, a counter monkey, with delusions of managerial skills, appears to have made an actual decision based upon her emotions. Sounds like it was in one store - otherwise they'd have the Big Ugly Signs up all over St. Louis...

So, what are WE going to do about it? Other than a bunch of "Well, I carried..." and "I don't like their food, so I'll never eat there..." and all that crap?

IN, what's their address info? Post it. We need their corp PR folks, and their headquarters e-mail.

They need to get more than ONE note... They need to get a LOT of notes, asking...

"A law enforcement friend of mine in Valparaiso (or however you spell it...), told me that your stores were now prohibiting all concealed weapons carry, including that by police and holders of legitimate permits. Is this true? I'd really like to keep patronizing your stores, but I'm not able to leave my weapon in the car when I'm having lunch."

Object is to (a) determine if this is corp policy; and (b) to bring down a world of grief on the countermonkey...
 
As I sat in a community center, waiting for my daughter to end her art class, I worked on the internet. Many of the sites were blocked. I found that If I reloaded enough times, or fast-enough (I don't know which combination it was) I was able to get past the block. :evil:
 
Panera Bread?

Well, I for one will wait til I see a response from HQ. I've always carried there and there are no signs in MI. Can't comment on the wi-fi crap because I don't have a laptop and probably won't get one. I've worn several NRA shirts and jackets and have never received even a questioning eye. Nothing but good service and great food. Oh, and:

Spend $10 on soup and sandwhich leave hungry
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I've NEVER left there hungry, and even though I usually get one of their large IC Mochas along with our meal, our bill is generally less than $20. I don't consider that bad.
 
I am glad you identified the NW location info as there are tons of people in Indiana who lawfully carry who might be quite perturbed.
 
gunbroker.com = 66.150.49.152


just ping a web address and you'll get the IP address and usually that'll go around whatever stupid blocking they have
 
It's not about "how to get around blocking software."

It's not about people in your particular locale.

It's not about your compressed definition of someone else's politics.

And it isn't about your personal dress code.

Sheesh.
 
She said that she would not allow "GUNS" in the store if state law allowed her to ban them
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Well, I'd only be carrying one anyway, I guess I'm ok with that, but anybody who has a BUG with them may want to leave that in the car.
 
As was said, its a corporate thing. They use third party software to filter their results, and that third party has all their settings set to 'Ultra PC Pantywaist'.
 
Okay... We now have the definition of "concealed," and someone else getting pedantic about plurals. Still another dislikes possibly poofty programming.

And it seems that nobody has noticed an opportunity to feel out the corp, and maybe get the "manager" a little more noticed by the boss-types than normal... Can you imagine the conversation? "Er... Ethel... We _want_ those people as customers."

But no... You guys wanna play with definitions, and the whole "mine is more concealed than yours is" game...

Sheesh. Gun people are freakin' useless politically.

USELESS.

Yes. I'm irritated. We've got bitching. We've got posturing. What we don't have is any sort of productive activity around the area.
 
Good Experience at Panera

My experience is different. Panera is now my hangout place. I changed it from Starbucks. I typically hang out at 4 different Panera bread in Colorado, and all great experience.

It is really amazing place. I once went to Panera with my sister when she got into an car accident. Manager came upto us and told her to to pick a pastery of her choice on the house!

Once, other Panera bread employee and manager keep giving me free coffee after seeing me with Starbucks coffee cup once outside the widow. haha

Yes, they do block gun related forums, but I think THR does work at Panera.

:)
 
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