Open Carry Wednesday is
a, an idea that we had at
the Cajun Experience
in Leesburg, Virginia.
That allows our patrons
to come into our
restaurant, openly
carrying their sidearm
based on the laws
of Virginia.
They can come in and
have a meal, and
we give them 10% off.
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>> Hello,
I'm Helen Hollyman.
I am joined today
by Bryan Crosswhite
the founder of 2AO.org
or, secondammendment.org
a pro-gun rights
business owners website.
Is that the cracked
introduction?
>> We are a pro-business,
I'm sorry
pro-Second Amendment
business organization.
We're a, not a gun
rights organization,
but a pro-rights,
Second Amendment
rights organization.
>> Thank you so
much for coming on.
>> Thank you.
>> So, you know,
first of all, first and
foremost you
are a restaurant owner,
a former chef.
Tell me about how you
started this website, and
what exactly goes
on on this website.
>> Okay, so we started
the organization around
the first of the year so
January, around
January first.
We decided to let people
know in in our community
who are pro-Second
Amendment, what
businesses are pro-Second
Amendment friendly.
So we decided to do
a database online and
invite people to sign
up their businesses in
a very balanced way
very balanced approach.
Put it that way.
We
have no guns on our logo.
It's very pro-rights
approach at how we're
doing this.
And we started and
we, when we did it,
the next day we had
a media outlet out of
Washington D.C.,
a national newspaper,
pickup the article and
it went viral.
And we started getting
over a business a minute
registering on
our database.
And it was just
a very small idea.
And it went viral.
So, and
that's where we're at
today we have over
10,000 members and
within 30 days
that's registered.
>> How many of
those businesses
are restaurants?
>> I don't have
the exact percentage of
the categories because
it's moving so fast.
But I would tell you that
I've reviewed some of
the database and there's
a lot of restaurants in
the, in, in the database
that are signing up.
Because of what they've
seen in the media.
There's been some
restaurants that
have the anti gun signs
on their restaurant, and
they feel like they would
like to have those who
believe in
the Second Amendment, and
want to exercise their
right to come and
dine at their
restaurants.
So.
>> Like Toby Keith?
>> Yeah,
Toby Keith Restaurant is
one of that I wouldn't
say it started the idea
there was two police
officers that kicked out
of Buffalo Wild Wings
in Virginia for
carrying their sidearms.
And that is what started
my restaurant doing open
carry Wednesday
over a year ago.
>> So, you know, before
we get further into that,
how many organizations
across the U.S.
are participating
in this website?
>> Organizations or
companies?
>> Companies,
business owners.
>> Oh, business owners,
like I said,
we're right about
10,000 right now, and
we have 5,000
individual members.
>> So how many,
like by, which states
are participating.
>> Every state is already
participated, yeah.
>> Okay, wow.
You started this
primarily from that
incident or, you know,
what led you to wanna.
>> So,
what reason is because of
my restaurant doing open
carry Wednesday for
now a year a lot of
people calling and
saying hey
what's the other
businesses that support
the Second Amendment?
Really didn't have
an answer and so
we're just like,
well, why don't we give
it a shot and try it.
And we launched a website
with a single page.
It just had a logo on it
and it got, like I said,
picked up, and
by mainstream media, and
went viral.
We had to immediately
create a website so, two,
two hours,
had a site up and
people were registering.
So, it was very
shocking for
me because I didn't
think people would be so
open to this.
>> What is open
carry Wednesday?
>> Open carry Wednesday
is a an idea that we
have at the Cajun
Experience in Eastburg,
Virgina that allows
our patrons to
come into our restaurant.
Openly carrying
their sidearm,
based off the laws
of Virginia.
They can come in,
as long as its holstered,
they can come in and
have a meal.
And we give them 10% off,
by exercising
their right.
So, this is what we do.
And also, you can
conceal carry, which,
we don't know who's
conceal carrying at
any time, [LAUGH] but.
If they show us their
permit of being able to
conceal carry
which the state of
Virginia requires that to
conceal carry you have to
have a permit.
If they show us that
they also get 10% off and
we only do this
on Wednesdays.
>> Any other day of the
week that your open are
they allowed to come in
and bring their guns in?
>> Absolutely.
I mean I still have
people every day that
open carry cuz Virginia's
known for that.
You'll see a lot
of people open
carrying these days and
so we don't.
We don't frown upon it,
they don't get
the discount any day,
except for Wednesdays.
But as a restaurant
owner,
I don't frown upon
them coming in [COUGH]
carrying their sidearm or
conceal carrying it.
>> What kinda food do
you cook at
the Cajun Experience?
>> South Louisiana Cajun
food.
And I make sure I
say South Louisiana.
My mom would
be very upset.
So.
>> So yeah, Cajun,
you know, bodan.
>> Bodan.
>> Jambalaya, seafood,
gumbo bread pudding.
Be Beignets, you know?
The typical Cajun food
that you'll find down in,
around Lafayette,
Louisiana.
>> How would you describe
the types of patrons that
come into your restaurant
who are open carrying?
>> Women.
I would say middle age
women are the main people
who come into my
restaurant open carrying,
and it's very
surprising to me.
But, there's been so
many instances in
the United States of home
invasions, where women.
Are the target that we
have seen a huge increase
in our state of
women getting their
conceal-and-carry permits
or starting to open
carry so, we're seeing
families open-carry.
And what I mean
by that is,
parents open-carrying.
We see law enforcement
people coming into our
restaurant open-carry.
And we're big on our
law enforcement,
we support our local law
enforcement community.
And, since we're in
northern Virginia,
typically we're gonna
have the military and
the Pentagon and,
the government people.
So, we see a lot of those
former military and
active military
people coming in and,
and open-carrying.
>> Do any of
your servers or
any of your
restaurant staff,
are they allowed to
open-carry on the Clock?
>> No.
>> No.
>> Not at all.
I mean it is a work
environment where I,
I can still carry
in my restaurant
as a management,
you know as a owner I
will come in
conceal carrying.
But I'm not, I,
I do not allow my
management or any of
my staff members to do
that on, on the clock.
If they come in
as off the clock,
yeah that's fine.
But we serve
a mix community.
So the people left of
the Second Amendment,
they still come to
my restaurant because
they love the food.
Even though we
may disagree,
the way we go about
doing this is you know,
we let people know.
They understand that this
is a controversial issue.
It doesn't bring
people away from our
restaurant so
we go, you know,
we tell people if we see
them looking at someone,
hey, why are they
carrying a gun?
We go and explain it,
and we say, look,
this is only you know,
something we do that we
promote on Wednesdays so
understand it and
they're.
Everyone is pretty
much open to it.
And they understand
that this, you know,
this is
a controversial issue.
And we're just
taking a stance for
the Second Amendment but,
other than that, no.
We don't allow, I would
never allow my staff,
oh my God, that would
freak people out,
walking up to
a table with a gun.
So.
>> So, I mean, do you
feel like some people
might consider this a PR
gimmick of some sort?
>> Absolutely.
And, and we,
we've got a lot of
press from this and it's
been very good for us,
for our business from
a press perspective.
But on the other hand it
wasn't intended that way.
It was intended to
make a statement that,
business owners can stand
out for their rights.
Especially when
we feel that our
rights are starting to
be taken away from us.
And most of my customers
are hunters we're in,
you know, northern
Loudon, or, sorry,
western Loudon county.
So we have a lot of
hunters there, and so
people feel everyday
that things going on on
Capitol Hill is taking
our rights away,
so this is,
this is our stance.
So that's what we, the
reason we did this and
plus because
the police officers.
When they,
when they got kicked out,
we just felt like
that was wrong to
ask a police officer
to not have a sidearm.
I'm in New York and going
to a restaurant, and
there's officers in there
carrying their gun.
I mean,
who dares tell them to,
to take their gun off and
leave it in their car.
>> So, you know,
in terms of firearms that
are actually allowed in,
what kinds of
guns are allowed into
the restaurant space?
>> Well, we don't
allow rifles, okay, or
anything [LAUGH] like
that, or shotguns or
nothing like,
this is just sidearms and
this is the only thing.
We've had one guy show
up with an AR-15,
trying to make
a political statement.
And we've asked
him to leave.
And because that's not
the place for, for
doing that.
That is you know,
the there's certain
people that are pro
Second Amendment that
takes it extreme.
Take the extremer
approach on things.
Look, we're
moderate people,
we understand that it's
gonna be sensitive.
We ask that it's
just only a sidearm.
>> So if it is, like,
legally licensed to him,
he, how do you kind of
circumvent that in terms
of do you have a sign or?
>> No, no,
we just approach it and
people now know that, you
know, we're not the type
that's, this is not
a publicity stunt this is
something that we take
pretty seriously.
And, so they know not
to come in with a,
you know, an AR15, and
into our restaurant it's
not the place for that.
Mm-hm.
>> You know,
there's been a lot of
school shootings.
You know, last year there
were 28 in January of
2014, there have been
11 school shootings.
Two people were shot in a
grocery store last month.
Two people were shot
in a mall last month.
Does it concern you
that this might be
a possibility, in your
space at the restaurant?
>> It would never
happen in my space.
Who would, in their right
mind, would come into
my restaurant, knowing
that there's patrons in
there carrying guns,
and gonna come into my
restaurant and
do something like that?
That's like walking onto
a military base and
trying to open fire and
bomb a military base when
you have the military
locked and
loaded, you
wouldn't do that.
So, with us promoting
this, this is one of
the safest places to
have your lunch and
dinner on Wednesdays.
And it's safe every
day of the week,
because we don't tell
people not to carry
in our restaurant.
So, it's allowed.
>> How do you deal
with alcohol and
guns in the same space,
because, you know-
>> Mm-hm.
>> Let's say there is a
customer who gets drunk.
>> Right.
>> And maybe they get
heated.
And, you know?
Legally, and
then just, in the
atmosphere of the space,
how do you deal with that
combination of a lethal
weapon and.
>> Yep, sure.
>> Alcohol.
>> Be more than happy
to talk the law says,
in Virginia, that,
if you open carry or
conc, open carry.
You can actually drink
alcohol in a restaurant.
That's the law.
We as business owners
can also say we will not
serve someone who is
open carrying, so we,
we tell our staff not to
allow people to do that.
So we don't serve alcohol
during that time period,
or to those who
are open carrying.
And most people who are
open carrying will not do
that anyway, because
they understand that
this is a rights issue.
They're not about
to screw it up.
Plus, they're not gonna
take a risk of getting in
their car after
having a drink, and
driving home with
a loaded weapon,
and getting pulled
over by the police.
It's just a,
these people,
I wanna make sure
this is clear.
These are law
abiding citizens.
So these are people that
you, you see, you know,
the soccer moms, you see,
you know, family people.
These are,
that's the people who
are open-carrying
in our restaurant.
So, we don't,
it's not the type of
people that would come
into our restaurant and
hold up the place, or get
drunk and start shooting.
It's not the Wild West,
so.
>> Mm-hm.
Have you ever
had any kind of
incident where you've had
to send someone out and,
you know, anything as
engaged like that?
>> Never.
>> So, you know,
it's interesting because,
with the idea of
a restaurant space and
identity you think about,
you know,
there's gender identity,
[SOUND] race identity,
things like that but,
in terms of this openly.
Political kind of
statement about
your views.
Do you feel that it is
[SOUND] affects the kind
of clientele that
you receive?
Because, you know, how
do your patrons kind of
enter into this space and
react to that?
>> No like I said,
most people.
They really
don't notice it
on the outside
of Wednesdays.
On Wednesdays,
we have a lot of
people open-carry and
it's pretty obvious.
But other than that,
you don't notice, and you
don't know when someone's
conceal carrying.
People who come into my
restaurant are mainly
conceal carrying.
Just like any other
state, there's 39 states
in the United States that
allow concealed carry.
You don't know,
once you go across that
border into that state,
if there's someone
you're talking to,
is gonna be
concealed carrying.
And their,
most people who are try,
who conceal carry
has a permit.
They have a background
check done.
And mostly are trained
to understand
the circumstances of why,
when to
use their weapon or when
not to use their weapon.
It's very discouraged
to use your weapon,
when we go through
the training for
concealed carry.
So my patrons on
Wednesdays, like I said,
are open-carry.
That's mainly
that day but
other than that,
you wouldn't notice it.
>> In other states, you
know, excluding Virginia,
you know, are there
different guns that
are allowed into
the spaces or?
>> That happens,
that has to be,
up to the owner of
that establishment.
So if it's a privately
owned business,
it's up to them at
their discretion.
Just like Toby Keith has
every right to say no
guns are allowed in
my restaurant in,
in Virginia.
That's, that's his right
I respect him for that.
I truly respect him just
in turn I would hope
that people would
respect me for my views.
And that's what
makes America great.
We all believe in
the Constitution, and
we all believe
in our laws.
Some people just disagree
with our laws I'm one
that, I believe that we
should obey our laws and
encourage our laws.
So that's my stance so
I don't, I'm never gonna
judge somebody for
not carrying, or
not allowing, you know,
their patrons to carry
in their restaurants.
>> I guess what I'm
getting at is could you
bring an assault rifle
into another state,
in theory,
if it was licensed and
owned by someone into
another restaurant space.
Not in Virginia,
but another state.
>> An assault weapon?
You'd have to define what
an assault weapon is.
An assault weapon
is defined as
a fully automatic weapon,
which is
illegal unless you
have a federal tag for
that, and it's federally,
federally registered.
And to have that,
I'm not certain on
the law whether you can,
you can carry
that openly.
I believe, and I'm just
speaking out of my.
Something I have heard,
I don't believe that's
legal to carry that.
Now if you want to carry
it from one state to
another you have to check
with the state laws.
But, an assault
weapon is a fully
automatic machine gun,
not an AR15.
And the AR15's that
you see on the news,
that people go in to and
they're shooting,
are not assault weapons.
>> How have you received
any feedback from
patrons who aren't,
you know, carrying guns
into the restaurant about
the dining experience?
Like, walk me through,
excluding guns,
like when I walk into
the Cajun experience,
like what does it
feel like inside?
>> It's house that was
built in the 1740s, it's
the second oldest house
in Leesburg, Virginia.
It's a house that you
would see in many old
paintings from the Civil
War days and before.
You walk into
the front door.
There's two rooms
on the first floor.
It's probably,
I think we have
eight tables downstairs.
And about 12 tables or
15 tables, upstairs.
So it's a two
story building.
The kitchen is a small
nine, nine foot
kitchen in the side, back
side of the restaurant.
Very rustic it
makes you feel like
you're down in the bayou.
And that's kind of the
way we've set it up for
decor, the decor
of the restaurant.
When you walk in
you're going to
feel like you're
in Louisiana.
>> What is the best
dish on your menu?
>> The best dish on
the menu is crawfish
etouffee by far.
That is one of
our top sellers.
Jumbulayah comes
in second but
the crawfish
etouffee is amazing.
>> And are they all
your recipes, or
how did they come out?
>> It's about eight
generations worth
of recipes,
cuz my family's all Cajun
from south Louisiana.
And we go back a long
ways so these recipes
were handed down through
history and I use a lot
of those rec, recipes
from my Darbone and
Guillat side
of my family.
>> And so getting back
to 2AO, you know,
this is going to
become an iPhone app?
Is that right?
As well as an iPad app?
>> Yeah, it's
an iPhone and iOS and
Android app that
basically it's,
we don't publish all our
members on a website we,
because, you know,
we don't want.
We do respect people's
privacy, as well.
Some people
are sensitive to that.
So, with the iPhone and
Android app,
you can press a button,
say here in New York
City, which we have
businesses in New York
City already registered.
You can press a button
on the phone, and
it'll show you in a 25
mile radius all of
those businesses that
are pro Second Amendment.
And it doesn't show
you who's not.
So I wanna make sure,
this is not about well
they should or shouldn't.
It just shows you
those people who,
who believe in our
Second Amendment.
And that's are the one
we're just connecting
our, you know, patrons
to those businesses.
It's just a networking
opportunity to network
with people that
are like minded.
>> Is there any
kind of open
forum that's happening
inside of the website or-
>> No [CROSSTALK] we
don't have an open forum.
We do have a Facebook
page and a Twitter.
And but we really
control our message.
We, you know, discussions
about this is done
from a, from more
local chapters that we
have established
throughout the states.
>> What is your
vision for the site,
let's say over projected
the next five years?
What do you
see happening?
>> Yeah, so our big, our,
we, we've just had a,
a conference call last
night about it, and
it was really
interesting.
We're talking
about what can
we do to help
grow the economy?
We're having
discussions about that.
So you know,
we have these like-minded
business owners.
All of support
the Second Amendment.
And we, we all stand for
the Second Amendment.
But on the other hand if
you partner with other
people in the business
community,
you can strengthen your
own local community.
So we're looking at it
from an economic growth
standpoint by tying in
consumers to
those businesses.
So we're seeing a lot
of opportunity there,
a lot of partnerships
that I like for
instance I have a Cajun
experience Leesburg.
There may be a baker
that I don't know about.
Who is in my community
he signs up.
I may go to him and
buy my bread because
we're like minded.
We're gonna do
business together.
So this is a way to,
to bring those, those
businesses together.
And that's what we
see as the vision and
also we want to have an
educational side of our,
of our organization.
When we educate
people about
the Second Amendment and
about these hot,
hot topics that are going
on in D.C. right now.
And we want to make
sure that people
understand this is.
There is another
side of the story.
They should hear
our side and
maybe they'll understand.
>> And if you could say,
I mean, on your side of
the story, what do you
feel is underrepresented?
Often times.
>> You know I think,
you know, you brought up
all the shootings that
have gone on and, and.
You know, we,
we're saddened by that.
And that, it doesn't,
it's bad for
humanity, and, but
one thing I'll tell you,
the Second Amendment's so
important to
a business owner.
And, if you,
if those businesses
would just take one, for
instance, if the mall
in Maryland that
just had a shooting and
three people died.
They, they have a law in
the state in Maryland
that says you can't have
a sidearm, you know,
concealed or open-carry.
But if there was,
if that mall was in
the state of Virginia,
more than likely, this
wouldn't have happened,
because the store
owner could have had.
A gun he was conceal
carrying, or
someone who was in
the mall at the time,
right when
the incidence was ha,
incident was happen,
they can actually
protect themselves and
they would have
been able to ta,
take down the,
the guy who was doing it.
Sad but
it's true that there's
both sides of the story.
So it appe,
it affects my business.
If I wasn't able to have
a concealed carry in
the state of Virginia,
I would feel very nervous
about my business.
I have public
people coming in.
I feel like I can't
protect my patrons and
I'm not the authority,
I'm not the law
enforcement I believe in
the law enforcement, but
I have to call the law
enforcement for
them to come.
And they're gonna come
after someone's shot and
killed.
And there could have
been something I
could have taken
care of and
helped save lives by
having a firearm.
>> This past November,
a news report said that
two men forced entry
into your restaurant and
stole seven rifles and
shotguns.
>> Hm-hm.
>> Have those been
returned to your
possession?
Or-
>> Yes.
>> Are they at large?
>> No, absolutely.
We, we've,
we've recovered every
single thing.
And the great thing
was every one of
them was taken
off the street.
We have security
cameras and the story,
it was really
interesting.
We don't keep firearms
on premise that's a rule
that we have.
But what happened was,
I live in the District
of Columbia.
And you're not
allowed to have
guns there I went deer
hunting the day of, a few
days before the incident
that that happened.
And so we were coming
back from our deer
camping fixing to cross
into the district which
would be breaking the law
and we said oh man,
we can't do this and the
guy who keeps our guns in
Virginia was not home.
So we decided the only
place we could do it is,
let's keep them at
the restaurant for
a couple of days.
So we went and
locked them up where,
in a locked closet away
from all the customers.
It's a area that's
not used, and
we locked it up there.
And it just happened
that an old employee
from the history, didn't
know about our guns or
anything like that was
looking for the safe.
And that's where we
used to keep the safe.
And he brought some guys
in and they robbed us and
instead of
finding the safe,
they found some guns and
that was,
that could've been
a tragic story.
Those guns could've been
used in crimes, and
that wasn't.
I would say we should
have had a better lock.
We should have had,
there's a lot of things
that I'm guilty for,
you know, I could of
kept them protected.
But luckily we were able
to get those guns back
and take those guys
off the streets.
>> I think, you know,
something that I
wonder about is.
What if someone came into
the restaurant during you
know, open-carry
Wednesday and
grabbed a gun
from somebody?
You know, and who know,
maybe it's an impossible
task where they like
fight someone, and-
>> Right.
>> But I mean,
what if that happened?
I mean does that ever
concern you that they-
>> Well, well, it can be,
it can be looked at
a different way as well.
I'm in New York City.
There's police officers
having breakfast in the
place that I was eating
breakfast this morning.
Someone could
come in there and
grab their sidearm.
Are we worried
about that?
What's the difference
between those guys and
people who
are concealed carrying?
They're trained.
We have you know,
I would tell you that
90 something percent of
the people in Virginia
who are concealed
carrying are trained
with a sidearm.
And I mean,
that's our state.
I can't speak for
other states.
But I can only speak on,
on, on behalf
of my patrons.
Everything is possible,
but
I'll tell you if someone
did try to do that,
that would be a lot more
protection inside that
restaurant than if it was
someone walked in and
no one was armed and
perpetrated a crime.
>> So, something in this
country when we think
about gun control issues
that's happening right
now is mental
illness and.
People who are allowed
to bear arms, you know,
what are your thoughts
on that and how are you
concerned about that
with your organization?
>> Well our organization
is really advocating that
we need to look at
mental illness from
a standpoint of firearms.
If you look at all of
the shootings that've,
that's gone on,
everything from
Columbine.
Onto, you know,
the recent shootings
that are going today.
There's one thing that's
always in common,
it's mental illness.
And we're starting to
see this as a trend,
and it's really worrisome
that our government is
really not talking about
the mental illness issue.
They're talking about
well we need to
do away with these
assault type of weapons,
which that can
be anything.
But really we're
wanting to see,
if you wanna talk
about gun rights and
things like that.
If the government would
actually include mental
illness in these
discussions and
talk about that
as an issue,
then it would make
a lot of people feel
more comfortable who
are pro Second Amendment.
So we don't see that.
So we, we feel like,
you know,
when you have people
coming into our country
with mental illness and
you see people that.
Have these different
disorders that
they're very unstable.
They should have a way
that identifies these
people not to
have weapons, and
not to be able
to bare arms.
And that's one thing that
we're looking at as
a group.is, you know,
we wanna protect
people as well.
If we have a state
that allows open-carry.
We should also look
at the mental illness
aspect, we don't want
somebody that's mentally
ill walking around town
with a gun on his hip.
That would be a disaster
for all of us.
So I think there's
balance that we need to
weigh from an advocacy
perspective.
And as a five O one C
three organization we're
looking at that, and
we're talking about it.
What, what effects does
mental illness really
have upon what's going on
in the situation with
the Second Amendment.
>> And from a political
perspective,
your audience of, of who
is on the site would you
say it's you know,
a certain
political party or
is it kind of a neutral
zone across the board?
>> Well you know, we
are a non partisan
organization.
We do not,
we don't represent
the Republicans or
the Democrats.
We are a non partisan,
completely, and
that's in our
mission statement.
we're, the, the thing
about us being a non
partisan organization, is
both sides of the aisle
are doing certain things.
They're fighting
about certain issues.
Just wanna be a non, a no
nonsense organization,
that looks at if from
a realistic perspective.
so, that's our stance.
Within food media,
a lot of people have been
kind of describing this
web site as like
the Zagat Guide for
gun owners.
Right.
Do you feel like in
the future that could be
a potential
guide of sorts?
Well we, you know, we, we
got the idea from Zagat.
I get the Zagat stickers
every year, and
Manuel's like, oh,
we gotta put it out.
We gotta put it out and
it has the Zagat 2014.
If you'll look at our
decal that we produce,
it's 2A0, 2014, and we'll
send it, a new, decal
every year without, you
know, just like Zagat,
I don't re-register,
they just resend it.
So we're gonna be
doing the same thing.
So we got the idea from
Zagat, on the sticker,
on the decal.
we, we don't wanna become
a Yelp site where you can
take reviews, but we do,
we're thinking about,
like, having.
To where people can
publish their menu.
And our business
owners can put up
information about
their business.
That want to put
it out publicly.
And we may wanna give
that opportunity to
our members.
But right now,
like I said,
everything is pretty
much kept secure.
And only through the app
on the iPhone and
Android.
Do you have any other
restaurants that you own?
We do.
We're in the middle of
launching a new
restaurant in Winchester,
Virginia called
the Cajun Experience.
That's going live
around March 15th.
That is one restaurant
that we will not be
[LAUGH] promoting
open-carry.
Or I mean, I'm, I can't
say that we would.
If some patron
comes in care and
I'm not telling them not,
you know, not to do it.
But we're not
gonna promote it.
And that's based off our
agreements on our lease.
Okay.
So why, why is that.
Is that by the district
or is that?
Well the,
the business, the,
the building we're in
is owned by the city.
So, you know,
from a city perspective.
There's politicians
involved, and
they just prefer, and
we, we understand.
And we're, that should
sell a lot of people that
we're very open
minded people.
We're not radicals or
anything like that.
So we, we respect, you
know, our landlords, and
if they say, you know,
we would prefer you
to not promote it,
we're not saying
you can't.
You know,
come into the restaurant,
concealed carry and
we're not telling
you to do that, but
if, please do
not go out and
promote this as
a discount day.
So we, we decided,
okay, we'll,
we'll agree to that on,
on this new restaurant.
And Leesburg is still
open-carry Wednesday, so
that location
will continue.
What kind of food
do you serve on,
any specials on
open Wednesdays?
Oh, open-carry Wednesday,
we don't have any unique
names, for any of our.
Dishes.
But it is the same menu.
We, we have a chef
special every day
that we, you know,
will do.
It could be fried
catfish smothered with
crawfish etouffee.
Or crawfish stuffed
beignets or fried
chicken, you know, with
red beans and sausage and
fried pork chops or
something like that.
So it, it varies
every day based off
what the chef wants to.
Cook that day.
Leave the gun,
take the cannoli.
[LAUGH].
So to speak.
We've heard of
that [LAUGH].
Well Bryan cr,
Crosswhite, thank you so
much for
coming on the show today.
No, thank you.
I appreciate it.
And yeah, thanks [LAUGH]
