The owner and customers of the Steiner Ranch Steakhouse are choosing to focus more on the future and less on the past, one month after a fatal shooting inside of the brand new restaurant.

"I worried a little bit that it would cast a bad cloud," says Bobby Steiner, the owner of the 450 seat facility with a picturesque view of Lake Travis.

The Steiner Ranch Steakhouse opened in November of 2008 with little or no fanfare.

Then in the first week of December, Travis County investigators say Brian Carl Beck, a steakhouse employee walked into the restaurant with the sole purpose of shooting and killing the manager, Chris Martin.

Beck fled the shooting scene and led authorities on a week long manhunt in a heavily wooded area off of Bullick Hollow Road in west Travis County.

Since that tragedy, Steiner says the community surrounding the steakhouse has come out in full force in support of the brand new establishment.

"Hopefully it'll continue as strong as it is now and I want it to be a place where people can come and have fun and get a great meal and feel good about being here. That's the way I feel when I'm here," says Steiner.

Search crews found Brian Beck's body a week after the shooting.  An autopsy is still pending.