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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @09:19PM (3 children)
She's lucky that she got kicked out. There's no telling what special sauces would have ended up in her food otherwise. Hopefully, she realizes there's a personal cost to vilifying a broad segment of the population which also handles her food.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:38PM (2 children)
"Hopefully, she realizes there's a personal cost to vilifying a broad segment of the population"
Hillary sure did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @12:55AM (1 child)
what restaurant did she get asked to leave again?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @04:03AM
The Slightly Round Table House.