Restaurants
Restaurants are crowded at peak hours, and most people inside are not watching the door. They are eating with family, friends, or coworkers. Escape routes are limited, and tables, chairs, and other patrons get in the way.
In the FBI’s 2000–2019 review, 14 active shooter incidents were in restaurants. Older attacks are still the ones people cite: 21 killed at a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California, in 1984, and 23 killed at Luby’s in Killeen, Texas, in 1991. Those fall outside the FBI’s post-2000 count. The May 2015 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco killed 9. It was a brawl between groups, not the same pattern as a single active shooter. Attacks in Paris, Dhaka, and Israel show the same setting overseas. They are not part of the U.S. FBI totals.
Bystander Active Shooter Education (B.A.S.E.) gives restaurant owners and chains a course built around their floor plan. Staff learn what to do if they are still able to act, and how to help the injured until responders arrive.
Contact us to schedule training for your staff.
