If you’ve got a craving for cajun cooking and a holster for your gun, this Louisiana restaurant may just be the place for you to dine.
Bergeron’s Restaurant in Port Allen, Louisiana, is offering a 10 percent discount to customers who enter the restaurant carrying guns. The deal was initially intended to bring in business from law enforcement officers, but when other gun-toting customers asked owner Kevin Cox for the discount, he enthusiastically agreed.
“It makes us all feel better when state patrol, police and sheriff’s department come in and have lunch here because you know when they’re here we’re safe,” Cox told the Huffington Post. “And I realized that we have a lot of good people that carry a firearm in Louisiana — my cousins and relatives included — and I’m equally as safe when they’re here, and I need to encourage that.”
Cox proudly called the restaurant “not a gun-free zone” and said that the gun-friendly environment should actually make individuals think twice about causing trouble.
According to NBC33, Cox has been giving out between 15 and 20 discounts each day of business.
The Bergeron’s owner also frowns upon business like Target and Chipotle who have instituted no-gun policies in response to demonstrations from gun rights activists.
“I keep hearing so much about people banning guns,” Cox told NBC33. “Target’s banning guns and these people are banning guns. Don’t they realize that that’s where people with guns are going to go? I want to take the opposite approach. How can I make my place safer?”
Back in July, Target “respectfully” asked customers not to enter the store with guns, following in the footsteps of chain restaurant Chipotle and coffee giant Starbucks.
Individuals over the age of 18 in Louisiana can carry guns without a permit so long as they aren’t barred from possessing a gun under law.
