When you go to a restaurant and see an empty table, you hope that you will be able to sit there and enjoy your meal – right? Well, a Texas Roadhouse had an empty table that no one was allowed to sit at for dinner.
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The Texas Roadhouse location was in Dallas, Texas and this happened last summer just after the Dallas police officers were killed during the sniper attack.
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The table had a pristine white table cloth, flags, and a sign. The table was set for five (the same number of officers that had died after being ambushed).
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The officers who were killed were Brent Thompson, Michael J. Smith, Michael Krol, Lorne Ahrens, and Patrick Aamarripa. No patrons complained about the table being empty on a busy night. Instead, the customers took photos and shared them on social media.
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