Residents Support Planned Restaurant

TYLER — Residents gathered outside the would-be site of Tyler’s Double D Ranch Saturday in support of the restaurant. Some in Tyler are concerned about the revealing outfits worn by female Double D employees. They cite the restaurant’s proximity to Toys R Us and Robert E. Lee High School. But Amber Danner-Kirk has started a Facebook page boycotting Toys R Us, which in fact owns the planned site of the restaurant. Toys R Us sought and got a restraining order, at least temporarily holding off plans for the Tyler Double D Ranch. Danner-Kirk told KETK she doesn’t think Double D is at all degrading to women. She says, “I think that the woman has a choice to work there or not, and as a woman, you have a choice to go there or not.” East Texan Sherry Sneed says for the Double D supporters, it’s all about rights. Sneed says, “We’re not interested in telling people, hey, you have to eat here…but we don’t want people telling us that we can’t.”