The Metropolitian diner: management confrontation

[American1776]

My wife, daughter, and I met my cousins and their kids for lunch at the Metropolitan Diner. Quite a few plates from NJ, NY, CT, and MD in the lot.

I open carried as usual: IWI Jericho 941 in a leather thumb break. There was a wait, so I took my daughter to the restroom. After I sat back down, a man and a waitress approached me.

Man: Do you have a gun on you?
Me: yes I do
Man: well we have a liquor license so by law you can’t have it in here.
Me: that’s not the law In The commonwealth of PA. Would you prefer I cover it?
Man: well, can you go put it in the car? We don’t feel comfortable.
Me: well, I don’t have a lock box in there
Man: well, I can put it in my safe.
Me: I’m not comfortable giving you my pistol.
Man: look, Im just making it up as we go. In five years here I’ve never had this problem.

He never asked us to leave. At this point, my cousin’s wife said: “you know, we’ll just go eat somewhere else.”

So all 8 of us walked out with our 100 dollar plus bill and went to Texas Roadhouse half a mile away.

I thought it was quite strange that the manager wanted to put my pistol in his safe.