Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill Restaurant Shuts Down
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Lauren Boebert poses for a portrait at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado. EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty Images
- Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill, famous for its firearm-toting waitresses, has shut down.
- Boebert said its lease had expired and was not being renewed by her new landlord.
- She said she's mulling reopening a scaled-back venue "like a Shooters coffee shop with pastries."
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Rep. Lauren Boebert's Shooters Grill restaurant — which gained notoriety for its firearm-packing waitresses — has closed its doors.
The Glenwood Springs Post Independent, a Colorado news outlet, first reported the closure on Wednesday.
Speaking to the publication, Boebert said her new landlord informed her that the restaurant's lease would not be renewed after June.
"There wasn't really much wiggle room or anywhere to compromise unless we bought the building ourselves," Boebert said, per the outlet. She added that she was hoping to preserve the "Shooters brand" with her husband.
"It's been an amazing journey. I don't regret anything. It's always sad to close a chapter. But this is where we're at," Boebert said, per the Independent.
The lawmaker also floated the idea of reopening as a scaled-back eatery that could look "like a Shooters coffee shop with pastries and some easy breakfast sandwiches and merchandise," the outlet reported.
The restaurant closed its doors on Sunday, per CBS News.
Pictures by the Independent and Twitter users showed a sign written in chalk outside the restaurant that read: "Thanks for the Support. Stay Tuned. #COVFEFE."
"Covfefe" is a possible reference to a 2017 Twitter gaffe by former President Donald Trump, who also used the hashtag in a message signaling his return to the Truth Social platform.
Boebert's restaurant courted its fair share of controversy. In 2014, it made headlines after pictures of its gun-toting waitresses were posted on Facebook. The lawmaker also repeatedly used a bogus story about a man being "beaten to death" outside her restaurant to advocate for gun rights, despite the man having died of a drug overdose.
In 2017, dozens of people at a local Colorado rodeo came down with symptoms of food poisoning after consuming the restaurant's pork sliders, The Daily Beast reported.
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The Poisonous Poop Pulled Pork probably didn't help.
So she is a serial liar...
That's required in today's gqp. Along with a criminal record.
The bathroom at Shooters is an atrocious deathtrap!
They addressed that problem.
Dude.... fucking perfect lol. I love BBQ but hate what it does to me.
And this the left will spin this stupid and run with this as something negative about Lauren Boebert. Oh wait, here it is.
Wasn't Bobert busted for illegally paying Shooters rent with het campaign funds? Oh, yes! She WAS...
What are you asking me for?
You must have a criminal record nowadays to be a republican/gop/gqp.
Bobert has both, a criminal record and a GED!
Well gee Jeremy, maybe the landlord refusing to renew the lease has something to do with Boebert getting sideways of Campaign finance LAW. Perhaps, unlike you, the landlord sees 'something negative' about that.
Now she can go back to being an "escort".
She can take Kamala Harris' corner.
Comments 4.1 and 4.2 stay, Comment 4 opened the door for the responses. If 4 is on topic the 4.1 and 4.2 are allowed
The left again prove how hypocritical they are.
Pure misogyny in the comments.
Where?
Remember, because of WHO made the comment in @4, it's acceptable.
If comment #4 is so misogynistic we must review yours and JJ's comments about AOC and Kamala Harris, for a fair assessment...
LOL. Is there anyone else here who has been suspended BOTH of the last two months?
Well gee Jeremy, if think #4 wasn't acceptable, you flagged it right?
Oh wait...I almost forgot that the MO is to whine rather than flag.
... both.
I have him on ignore now and it's bliss. Yet he keeps responding.
Well, projection, deflection, denial, plus perpetual whining is all some have.
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But that's ok. It is permitted as it's coming from them toward somebody they apparently fear.
Fear Lauren Boebert? I only fear how stupid people like her are making conservatives.
Oh get off your high horse mother Theresa
Since when did bad mouthing anyone, let alone women bother you?
What, you are an uber feminist now? Fuck off [removed]
Nothing wrong with coffee and pasties.
I was considering going there but a place named shooters promising servers with 'big guns' just sounded like a gay bar.
In NYC there is at least one gay bar that has attracted such a diverse clientele that it is quite possible to be in and out the place and never realize it's a gay bar.
A hamburger is a hamburger.
I've actually been to a few. They're a lot of fun.
Does anyone else here hate themselves for thinking this picture of Boebert is hot?