Take-Out with F2DR: Burying the Lede at Mark's City Grille

Mark's City Grille is less than a year old but its done big things. Restaurant thought-baby from one of Columbus' few patrician restaurateur families it was bound to happen. Getting past the oddity of using the name 'City' in a "high-class diner" that is stuck in a gas-station parking lot in a low density area of suburban Columbus, once inside, it is the kind of place that you might find in a downtown city-block. High, open ceilings, open kitchen, and decent enough food. Typical smörgåsbord of generic menu items like burgers, steak, grilled chicken, meatloaf, Mark's manages to raise the bar by freaking the fuck out of Columbusites by throwing in little items like buffalo meat burgers, delicious bacon wrapped quail parts, and Pres. FDR's fav, Country Captain.

But I digress, the relevant story is what happened at Mark's City Grille this past Saturday night. Awesome shit. Things that only happen in movies or in Jake's dreams. Gunpoint. Robbery.

You:

What's the big deal? Black men rob people all the time?

Let me finish. Gunpoint. Robbery. Foiled.
One of the three employees who was being held up after Mark's had closed, decided not to be fucked with and fought back against the armed robber with the only weapon he had at hand. His beer. The dish-washing hero hit the guy over the head with the bottle, forcing the master of crime into running away while shooting his gun aimlessly. After a police sketch artist was able to produce a likeness of the would-be robber... one Deron Thomas was found nearby, matching the description and was arrested.

When asked what he was thinking as he attacked the dude holding the gun, Tshaka Nelson said,

I wasn’t scared because I’ve had guns pointed at me before. I used to be a cab driver.

Well, damn. I've been demeaning and drunk to cabbies before, but now that I know having guns pulled on them is happening on the reg, I don't feel nearly as bad for not tipping.