After Brown's Chicken massacre: 'No one came'

Restaurant owner Dick Portillo will likely agree that The Brown's massacre made him a devotee of sophisticated burglar alarm technology.

When my fellow Wells Fargo Alarm System sales associate approached this well-khown Chicago restaurant chain years before the multiple murders, decision makers flinched @ the expense of installing costly hard-wired holdup switches in that Palatine fast food restaurant where employees were found shot & stabbed to death.

More affordable wireless hold-up switch technology co-inciding with the sensational coverage of the Brown's Restaurant murders made believers out of many once frugal restaurant managers who subscribed to bold advances in this technology intorduce by Sonitrol.

By the time I designed a McDonald's Restaurant alarm system just a few months after the Brown's murders as a Securitylink from Ameritech sales engineer, one franchisee invited me to install hold-up switches throughout this restaurant to protect employees from the same brutal fate which snuffed out the lives of Brown's Restaurant employees one fateful night.