Is it legal to eat at a bar of a restauant?

Doug.38PR · Post by **Doug.38PR** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:44 pm

Say I walk into a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages and has a bar (Bennigens, Chilis, Applebees) and all the tables are taken up. Is it legal for me to sit at the bar and eat (but not drink) while carrying a gun?

I was told that I was okay if I ever ate in the bar area as long as I was drinking iced tea.

Just wanted a second opinion.

txinvestigator · Post by **txinvestigator** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:51 pm

Doug.38PR wrote:Say I walk into a restaurant that serves alcoholic beverages and has a bar (Bennigens, Chilis, Applebees) and all the tables are taken up. Is it legal for me to sit at the bar and eat (but not drink) while carrying a gun?

I was told that I was okay if I ever ate in the bar area as long as I was drinking iced tea.

Just wanted a second opinion.

Yes it is legal. You can even have a beer with those Wings.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:53 pm

You're not drinking, your eating, therefore I don't think there is a problem...

Doug.38PR · Post by **Doug.38PR** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:54 pm

Are you serious? Beer is an alcoholic beverage.

stevie_d_64 · Post by **stevie_d_64** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:54 pm

Txi, two lousy minutes!

Don't you got, like, like have to go to work or something???

RPBrown · Post by **RPBrown** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:55 pm

Just be sure the 51% rule does'nt come into play

txinvestigator · Post by **txinvestigator** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:04 pm

Doug.38PR wrote:Are you serious? Beer is an alcoholic beverage.

So??

Doug.38PR · Post by **Doug.38PR** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:07 pm

So.....I thought it was illegal to consume alcoholic bevereges while carrying a firearm

Mike1951 · Post by **Mike1951** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:08 pm

Doug.38PR wrote:I was told that I was okay if I ever ate in the bar area as long as I was drinking iced tea.

Nothing prevents you from drinking.

However, there is no set level of intoxication specified.

For me, that mean's abstaining. Of course, I'm always driving so I couldn't drink anyway.

txinvestigator · Post by **txinvestigator** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:12 pm

Doug.38PR wrote:So.....I thought it was illegal to consume alcoholic bevereges while carrying a firearm

Nope.

Texas Penal Code
Â§46.035. Unlawful carrying of handgun by license holder.

(d) A license holder commits an offense if, while
intoxicated, the license holder carries a handgun under the authority
of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, regardless of whether
the handgun is concealed.

razoraggie · Post by **razoraggie** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:30 pm

Doug.38PR wrote:Are you serious? Beer is an alcoholic beverage.

LOL.....only if it makes you a drunken fool!

DSARGE · Post by **DSARGE** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:18 pm

Has anyone ever seen a resturant or establishment that wasn't posted, but had a section or bar area that was? Just a question.

propellerhead · Post by **propellerhead** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:37 pm

DSARGE wrote:Has anyone ever seen a resturant or establishment that wasn't posted, but had a section or bar area that was? Just a question.

I know the Chili's near my has one license for the entire restaurant. It's not a 51% place, even if the bar would sell nothing but alcohol.

dpatterson · Post by **dpatterson** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:58 pm

propellerhead wrote:It's not a 51% place, even if the bar would sell nothing but alcohol.

But isnt that all a bar sells is Alcohol?

DP

jimlongley · Post by **jimlongley** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:12 pm

Most restaurants that have bars also sell food at the bar. In my misspent youth my favorite bar was just that, and few people, beside those of us that lived there, knew you could order food too.

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