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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant on Friday night because she works for President Donald Trump. A co-owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, asked Ms Sanders and her family to leave as a protest against the Trump administration.
She told the Washington Post that she decided to ask the Trump spokeswoman to leave the 26-seat, "farm-to-table" restaurant after talking to her staff. "Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave," she said she told them. "They said yes."
The incident comes days after Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was booed at a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC. Critics of the Red Hen's decision said that it was discriminatory. However, others compared the restaurant's decision to a recent Supreme Court ruling in favour of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, in a case seen by many conservatives as a test for religious freedom.
WaPo - the owner of the Red Hen explains
[...] She [Ms Wilkinson (the proprietor)] knew Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him. She knew the community was deeply divided over such issues as Confederate flags. She knew, she said, that her restaurant and its half-dozen servers and cooks had managed to stay in business for 10 years by keeping politics off the menu.
[...] It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served — that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.
"They offered to pay," Wilkinson said. "I said, 'No. It's on the house.' "
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @07:47PM (2 children)
Tossing her out like that might have felt good for a few minutes but will have no lasting positive effect.
Hindsight is 20/20 but one way to have dealt with her that would have been epic would be to get her to acknowledge that the owner had the right to chuck her out and get her to agree to leave if asked -- but don't actually ask her to leave at that point. Instead let her stay and give her the same level of service as everyone else, but not before quoting Romans 12:17-21
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @10:17PM (1 child)
I disagree. She lies so, so often that I question even the true things she says. The Red Hen could just have been protecting their Yelp reviews (a long term positive effect). If she had dinner there she might have lied about the level or quality of service she received. Showing her the door guarantees she will tell the truth about the service she received.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @02:47PM
Perhaps, but in the long term, look at all the people submitting fake reviews.Between the I support kicking her out people and the how dare you kick our psychopath out people, the reviews are effectively meaningless now.