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posted by janrinok on Monday June 25 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the restaurant-with-bite dept.

BBC,

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: 5, Insightful) by DBCubix on Monday June 25 2018, @08:28PM (2 children)

    by DBCubix (553) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @08:28PM (#698351)

    While I understand the sphere of politics and technology will sometimes intersect, this story has nothing to do with Technology. Soylent is not the right medium for this article. There are hundreds of other sites devoted to pure political discussion. Please help keep Soylent focused on tech. Its why I and a lot of others come here.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 25 2018, @09:24PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @09:24PM (#698399) Journal

    Stories like this get far more ad impressions.

    Oh, wait.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:22PM (#698440)

    this story has nothing to do with Technology. Soylent is not the right medium for this article.

    Admittedly this is not "News for Nerds," but last I heard, "Soylent News is People."

    Putting slogans aside, personally I enjoyed this article. I'm sure many others did as well. I fully admit that there a scale which everybody has for "too much political drivel." In my mind, Soylent News is still on the correct side of that line.