Waitresses at a restaurant, Shooters Grill, in a city called Rifle, Colorado, carry the Rueger Blackhawk .357 sports guns on their hips when taking and delivering orders.

The menu features “M16 burrito,” “Smith & Wesson Grilled Cheese” and “Locked and Loaded Nachos.” Even the salt and pepper shakers are made from shotgun shells.

It is the brainchild of owner Lauren Boebert, 27, who carried a pistol shortly after opening the restaurant a year ago.

“I started open-carrying maybe a month after we opened just because I am a woman in business and I was there early hours and late nights,” Boebert said. “There was a man beaten to death in the alley behind my restaurant last year. It was very unfortunate.”

The firearm accessorising caught on with the staff.

Carrying a gun openly is legal in Colorado, but Boebert puts her staff through a safety course and customers don’t seem to bat an eye to their orders coming with a gun around the waitress’ hips.

“No one has ever turned around and walked out because they saw a gun,” Boebert said. “They might have left because it was too crowded, praise the Lord. But not over the guns.”