Skyline Chili fears criminals might use DNPWA list?

The following letter was sent to OFCC by an HR Director for Cincinnati-based Skyline Chili. After giving the company an appropriate amount of time to respond to our follow-up (they didn’t), we are now posting this exchange here, for the benefit of our readers.

Subject: Do Not Patronize List
From: Shari A. Bleuer
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005

Dear Ohioans for Concealed Carry Public Relations team,

Skyline Chili, Inc. has become aware that many of our restaurants are listed on your "Do Not Patronize" database. While we appreciate your organization's right to express your opinion by listing our store locations on-line, we would ask that you remove the name of the manager listed for our Kettering, Ohio location. Our apprehension is that by publishing a name, work address and telephone number of an individual on the world-wide-web, unscrupulous individuals may exploit the information for improper purposes (such as identify theft). Thank you in advance for your timely and professional handling of this matter.

Shari Bleuer, SPHR
Director of Human Resources

Subject: Do Not Patronize List
From: Chad Baus
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005

Ms. Bleur -

Upon receiving your email, I called the store in question. The name of your manager was given to me over the phone, by simple request, and before I identified myself. As such, it is hard for me to believe there is any real concern over publishing his name, work address and phone number, since it was so freely given when I called.

You state in your email that you are worried about "unscrupulous individuals" exploiting a store manager. Surely you know that identity theft is against the law. If your company is so convinced that posting "no-guns" signs will keep "unscrupulous individuals" with guns out of your stores, why are you any less convinced that laws against identity theft will deter anyone who read the name Jason T. Schramm on the Internet? Of course, the truth is, your company must realize that criminals will do what criminals will do, regardless of any laws, prohibitions, policies, etc.

Since you wrote, I would like to take the opportunity to ask you why your corporation chooses to discriminate against people who have proven to be among the most law-abiding citizens in our nation by posting these signs? Why did you not post these signs in Indiana in years past, where I have dined at Indy locations many times, and where concealed carry has been legal since 1935? Why only when this right
of self-defense was extended to people in your own state did your company chose to begin enforcing this unsafe and discriminatory policy?

In the interest of extending a bit of goodwill, I have removed Jason's last name, and inserted only his initial. I would appreciate a measure of goodwill in return. Please take the time to read the information provided below, and/or provide this communication and these links to the decision-maker at your company.

What Business Owners Need to Know About CCW

If Skyline believes it going to keep criminals out with these signs, consider this extensive list of stores that have been robbed WITH THE SIGNS clearly in place:

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=92

If Skyline is under the false impression that it should post signs out of liability or insurance concerns, please consider this list of hundreds of stores that have learned the facts, and removed their signs:

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=91
I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Chad D. Baus
Ohioans For Concealed Carry

NOTE: Since this email exchange, we HAVE removed one Skyline Chili store from the DNPWA list. According to a reader, the Findlay store went out of business recently.

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