Buns
and Guns was a fast-food restaurant located in Sfeir, a southern suburb of
Beirut, Lebanon in a Hezbollah controlled area. The restaurant's theme of
military decor, fake assault rifles, and camouflage netting, as well as
recorded gunfire sounds. The dishes were served with names of
"rocket-propelled grenade" (chicken on a skewer) and other names like
Kalashnikov, Dragunov, Viper, and B52. Their motto was "A sandwich can
kill you."
According
to an interview with Al-Manar, the restaurant's owner, Yasser Marji, said
"My goal was to make people laugh before they ask me, why weapons? The
important thing is that they laugh." Ibrahim claimed in the interview that
the only way his sandwiches could kill customers was by their generous proportions.
"It attracts customers in an unconventional way. You noticed the moment I
opened the restaurant, there was a lot of business."
When
last visited in October 2009 the restaurant had been closed. A new fast food
restaurant, named 'Shoot', had opened up in its place. According to an
employee, the restaurant had been sold a few months before. The theme of the
new restaurant had no longer anything to do with guns, but was instead focused
on sports ('Shoot' referring to a basket ball or a football, as seen in the new
logo).
