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Until they post the dreaded 30.06 sign, they're ok in my book. You have to look at it from the viewpoint of the owner of the business. If you owned Whataburger, how would posting a 30.06 sign affect business? It would decrease your business by about 3 percent. I would NEVER do this.

Allowing open carry in their restaurant would upset 0.075 percent of their customers. As a business owner, I can tell you that even losing 0.075 percent of my business would suck. So, how would I not allow open carry so as not to upset the anti-2A crowd without upsetting the much bigger 2nd A supporting crowd? I would do exactly what Whataburger is doing. I would not put ANY anti-2nd A signs up (no 30.06 and NO 30.07, anti-open carry signs). However, I would give verbal notification to open carriers to hide their gun by pulling out their shirts over their guns or secure it in their vehicles or if it is a Chinese restaurant, I would discreetly seat the open carrier in the V.I.P. section (private dining room in the back, most classy Chinese restaurants have private dining rooms so that diners could eat unusual Asian foods without freaking out their non-Asian customers). I would even smooth it over with them by giving them a box of very hard to find .22lr ammo.

Losing ANY customers is bad business.

P.S. How I determined the amount of customers lost in each scenario;
1. NRA has 5 million dues paying members.
2. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has 125 thousand members.
3. 125/5,000,000 = 0.025
4. 3 percent of Texans have a CHL
5. 3 percent x 0.025 = 0.075 percent

Keep in mind that this is actually a high estimate of the number of members in Moms Demand Action because over 95 percent [abbreviated profanity deleted] their members are free riders who only clicked a couple of mouse buttons. NRA members are DUES paying members that had to take out their credit cards and pay $25 to $35 per year. It is $35 per year, but if you look hard enough, there's always a special deal you can click on somewhere in the internet where you can pay for a year of membership with a $25 discounted rate and you'll even get a NRA baseball cap in the deal. I have a whole closet full of these NRA baseball caps. I'm visiting my family in California soon. I'll bring these along as gifts for all my family out there. Although it is supposed to be an "introductory" deal, their computer never catches this and has always allowed me to renew at the lower $25 intro rate. LOL.

Yes, I understand that the right to bear arms is a constitutionally guaranteed right. A similar situation existed for the civil rights ear in the 1960s, the lunch counter sit-in. Separate but equal is inherently unequal, BUT seating open carriers in VIP is not separate but equal. That's separate but BETTER. So, I think it's OK. VIP usually has a private big screen TV, prettier waitresses, plusher chairs, better food, and the chef will usually come out to say "hi" and shake your hand at the end of your meal if you're seated in VIP.