FTA: "A spokeswoman for Denny´s Corp. Liz DiTrapano said in response to a concern raised by a guest about a customer with a firearm, the manager approached the individual and communicated that Denny´s policy does not permit firearms in the restaurant."

Good luck with that, fools. See also Luby´s massacre.

He or she will probably be an EX manager soon.....this does not sound like Denny´s corporate culture to me.

Now that Denny´s has declared itself gun-free, even by on-duty police, it´s patrons are targets for every armed thug and felon.

I will never enter a Denny´s again

Why would you eat there anyway?

What kind of idiot is concerned that a uniformed police officer on break has a gun? Of course, the concerned customer wants to be anonymous.

Liberalism really is a mental disorder.

3, you fell pray to the headlines - and obviously did not read the story. The paper is trying to make Denny´s, a conservative coropation, look bad. The main manager came up and corrected the idiotic asst manager who tried to run the cops off. Then the chief threw an over the top tantrum.

Read people, THEN spout off. You won´t look so stupid that way.

I´ll stop at Denny´s when I travel. Usually very clean and safe. But boy do they ever do some truly stupid things. This is incredible.

We used to allow law enforcement special discounts in the restaurant. We liked having them around...so did the customers.

What´s all the fuss? This time, they bypassed the stomach and did to common sense what they usually do their customer´s GI systems.

#6, Passion, I believe you are the one who misread the article and spouted stupid.
Clearly, the main manager tried to de-escalate the situation by offering to allow the police detectives to stay--but I see nothing in the article where that main manager said his subordinate was mistaken or apologized.
Maybe you need corrective reading skills

I dunno, a little schadenfreude perhaps, but now those officers know how so many of us with concealed carry permits are treated...

Very timely info for me. Travelling South in the next few weeks, and the last place I want to eat is at a gun-free zone. They attract cowardly nutbars like a magnet. Gimme a diner frequented by CCW and cops...

"According to police, Rice stated he had a complaint from another customer about the weapon..."

It would be interesting to know the political affiliation of the anonymous complainer, who doesn´t seem to have been thinking very clearly. If the sight of an armed person caused such alarm, requesting management to eject the individual would not seem like the smartest step to take - unless the person who complained knew perfectly well that these were police officers and thus did not fear provoking the situation. This sounds like either a very stupid or a very political person.

The take home lesson, which is not necessarily obvious, is how quickly isolated incidents like this can become BIG DEAL NEWS, thanks to instantaneous worldwide communication networks. One minute it´s business as usual - and the next minute, WHOOSH! it´s all over the country and even the world. Our biological nervous systems are not adequately equipped to deal with such input. Perspective and proportion are lacking or lost altogether. It seems we are all rubber-neckers and voyeurs now, whether we want to be or not.

This is really funny. Illinois has declared war on the Second Amendment, and we´re supposed to sympathize with the police-state agents who implement these policies.

Eat your burger in the car.

Just change the name to Dummy´s...

Unfortunately I don´t suppose the police will remember that remark the next time this Denny´s is robbed.

Gee whiz why not just hang a sign on the front door ROB ME PLEASE!

Denny´s´ owners will not be happy that all Belleville police are boycotting Denny´s. Someone is going to be fired, maybe more than one. Manager should have offered to pay for meals and beg them to stay. Of course they are not going to leave their protection out in the car for any reason.

Not only the cops will boycott, every gun owner and/or conservative will boycott the establishment. It will be closed in three months.

#11 - if you´re carrying concealed, how does anyone know to mistreat you?

Not sure what to conclude here. The corporation´s ad this past summer was very pro-conservative and clearly supported "the right to bear arms." But Denny´s was also one of those that caved to jesse jackson during his no-minorities-in-the-boardroom campaign back in the nineties. I seem to recall that the settlement included a share of the profits for one of his sons.

What happened to the customer who complained? I bet he was laughing it up.

(Mis)Manager David Rice (any relation to that idiot, Susan?) has earned himself a sacking, methinks.

His PC response to an anonymous complainant (with a hidden motive I´d wager) is going to cost Denny´s a bundle in bad PR.

Seeing frequently how businesses are harmed by fools like David Rice who represent them to the public makes me wonder why anyone wants to risk being in business these days.

The Philistines appear to be prevailing, folks.

I won´t be eating at Denny´s anytime soon, and it´s not because I´m a gourmet.

Maybe that ´concerned patron´ was a sleeper muslim scoping things out for a future suicide bomber.

Wrong response...the cops should have showed up in force, taken every seat in the place and refused to disarm. Take that Dennys!