100% Pat contacted them to let them know it was an aTalker
Or he's already had The Talk with them, about how having a famous author like him drinking there will attract attention.
"So, you can't have a fax machine, because they'll send you pictures of me sucking Trump's penis. Photoshops, obviously. And your waitresses will have to shut down their social media otherwise impersonators will hit on them, using my photo, phone number and Facebook account. Oh, and if your bar burns down in a fire and you get any donations from Owen A. Forums you
have to give them back."
"What?!?"
"No, I'm just saying
if. If it burns down - like the two last bars I hung out at..."