Whataburger
Whataburger (pronounced Wad-uh-burger in Texas) is the best dang fast-food in Texas. One time when I was visiting Tennessee I met Loretta Lynn’s son-in-law. That practically amounts to being a celebrity in the South. We got to chatting and he admitted that the thing he missed most about Texas was Whataburger.
Whataburger condiments are so good that they started bottling and selling their regular ketchup, ranch dressing, and spicy ketchup on supermarket shelves. Their french fries are stellar. It’s a damn Texas institution and they just one-upped everybody in town.
There will be no open carry in Whataburger restaurants. Their CEO says —
“We’ve had many customers and employees tell us they’re uncomfortable being around someone with a visible firearm who is not a member of law enforcement…we have a responsibility to make sure everyone who walks into our restaurants feels comfortable. For that reason, we don’t restrict licensed concealed carry but do ask customers not to open carry in our restaurants.”
Hell, yes.
If you are so insecure that you cannot possibly leave home without flashing a gun at everybody, just order to-go, sneak back into you bat cave, and leave the rest of us alone.
Thank you, Whataburger.
I own a small business. If my religion forbids firearms, can I refuse to allow customers to bring them onto my private property, concealed or not? 🙂
1I must go support Whataburger soon! Good choices deserve support.
2My daughter was once in a Whataburger when it was robbed. Armed masked gunmen came in and went to the counter and demanded money. Luckily they ignored the patrons. But what would have happened had a patron been armed and the gunmen could see they were armed? We live in a crazy gun happy world.
3@Hippie Cowboy
In Texas the signs that hospitals, businesses, gov offices, etc deny access to concealed carry licensees is called a “30.06 Sign”, which refers to “TEX PENAL CODE ANN. § 30.06 TRESPASS BY HOLDER OF LICENSE TO CARRY CONCEALED HANDGUN
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/7/30/30.06
4I already made the decision to try to do all my shopping at establishments that ban open carry. Glad to see Whataburger on my list.
5The first thing I did when I heard about this last night was to go to their web site and leave them a little thank you note. You can do that here: http://whataburger.com/company/contact And please do, because yall know the coffeeshop commandos are going to be whining at them.
6I have never been to a Whataburger but will now make an effort to find them before using other chains.
Unfortunately, my granddaughters really like Chic Filet…but I try to subvert that choice whenever I can..8-)
7Personally, I don’t care for chain burgers so I don’t eat at Whataburger. But I did contact them to say thanks.
“When we do right no one remembers. When we do wrong, no one forgets.”
8Holy French fries! Am I hearing heads if ammosexuals exploding?!
9Home made french fries are better and I have never seen a Whataburger. Selling lead free ought to be a good proposition.
10Hallelujah! We have a new (this last year) Whataburger here in Fredericksburg, TX and I’m so thrilled to hear they will ban open carry. We go there with the grandkids a lot and my husband and I have been discussing what our plans would be if some idjit came into the restaurant packing heat. We agreed that we would walk out, after complaining to the manager that it is unsafe to have guns openly visible in an establishment where there are families with children. I’m not crazy about concealed carry either, but this is a start. Thanks, JJ, for the information! I would miss Whataburger’s french fries. Mmmmm.
11Here’s an idea.
Why don’t Texas and like-minded states just allow open carry and display of winkies. I suspect that’s what all this is about anyway and it would be slightly less uncomfortable to be around than guns. Though I would hope food establishments would continue to be stricter than the law.
12@Nina Jo—Thanks for the tip. I went there and left them a fervent “thank you!”
13LynnN, yeah, that too would just about spoil anyone’s appetite.
14I’m so old I remember the original Whataburger stand, which was in Corpus Christi, Texas, and I met the man who started the chain. It’s fine dining compared to McDonalds.
15Their website says the nearest Whatburgers to Maryland are in Alabama and Florida, so I guess I’ll have to applaud from here.
16I think you just made Kory Watkins cry.
Good.
17Me and What-A-Burger! Those were the days!
18I had a Saturday job when I was about 15 ( or around 1962)at the local What-A-Burger!
I made 39 cents an hour for 8 hours and got a What-A-Burger to take home!
My jog was cutting the meat off big sections of beef, hanging in the meat locker, in a little building out back of the big W shaped building!
Call the law and ask them to enforce this Texas statute!
There are stalking in all states!
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/group/busslab/stalkinghelp.org/stalk4-legaldef.htm
19I looked at a list of companies that plan to ban open carry. Target will ban and WalMart will not.
20@Sam in San Antonio
21And frankly we don’t want WalMart* banning concealed or open carry. Without WalMart* comedy the world would be dull indeed.
I’ve already left a thank-you comment on Whataburger’s website. I am not a big fast food eater but will make an effort to go there (my daughter says the honey chicken biscuits are to die for). Glad to hear about Target too.
22there was a Whataburger near the lab when I worked on Galveston back on the early 80s, our first toir of duty in TX after leaving New England. I loved Whataburger, with jalapenos on my burger, and for a treat would get an order of livers and gizzards. I was astounded that a fast food chain had livers and gizzards.
23I will also leave a comment on their site. I might have to start going there more often (I live in Austin).
24I miss Whataburger so much. That is the one food I could enjoy all by myself cuz I could get it all over me and not give a damn! Sometimes I just want to fly home from this – can’t fine a word bad enough – Alaska and the first thing I stop at is the Whataburger by Houston International. As I would most likely have slobbered all over myself Thank Gravy there is Drive Thru!!!
2532 years of Tex-pat surviving up here in the Northeast, and there hasn’t been a trip home that didn’t begin, upon leaving whatever Airport I was flying in to, with stopping at the first Whataburger spotted. Good to know that pilgrimage can continue unfettered….
26Never had one, never will. Vegan for decades.
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