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Red Hen eateries feel the heat after Sarah Sanders booted from Virginia restaurant with same name
Fox News ^ | June 24, 2018 | Andrew O'Reilly | Fox News

Posted on 06/24/2018 11:57:51 AM PDT by conservative98

Michael Friedman never imagined that naming his restaurant The Red Hen would be so controversial.

But when the co-owner of another restaurant named The Red Hen – this one almost 200 miles away in Lexington, Va. – refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday night, it was open season on any eatery with Hen in its name.

“It was a bit of an interesting day yesterday,” Friedman told Fox News. “There were so many negative comments floating in on social media and people calling up my restaurants to threaten us.”

The foul play began when Sanders tweeted that she was told by the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Va., that she had to "leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left." She said the episode Friday evening said far more about the owner of the restaurant than it did about her.

"I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so," Sanders said in the tweet from her official account, which generated 22,000 replies in about an hour.

While Friedman tried to quickly quell any bird-brained backlash mistakenly directed at his Italian-influenced restaurant by posting on its social media accounts that his eatery had no affiliation to the one in Lexington, it did little to stop the flood of angry comments and calls. One person called up one of Friedman’s other restaurants and threatened to blow it up, while another just repeated the word “shame” over and over again.

“This is a huge misconception,” Friedman said. “We are not affiliated with the restaurant in Lexington; this is not a franchise. We serve whoever walks through out door, no matter their race, creed, sexual orientation, political party or whatever.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: lexington; liberalfail; redhen; sarahhuckabeesanders; sarahsanders; shs; stephaniewilson; tds; trump; wilson
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To: conservative98
I am not Cinna the conspirator! I am Cinna the poet!
21 posted on 06/24/2018 12:11:13 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Vaquero

Not a chain. Just a bunch of dumb businesses that don’t check on whether people are already using the same name.


22 posted on 06/24/2018 12:11:55 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

I had to check if that iron railing was original to the image.

Now that’s funny - no photoshop needed.


23 posted on 06/24/2018 12:12:46 PM PDT by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: Reno89519

True. I can’t help but think
the one who called in and
threatened to blow his place
up is a liberal plant, trying
to make patriots look like a
a bunch of Neanderthals. Most
conservatives I know wouldn’t
threaten life and limb.


24 posted on 06/24/2018 12:12:49 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: conservative98

These idiots don’t realize there’s more of us than of them.


25 posted on 06/24/2018 12:12:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: conservative98

That pic is priceless. Die by the sword, kids.


26 posted on 06/24/2018 12:13:26 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: conservative98

How long before the owner goes the Kathy Griffin route, and claims that her restaurant “is being targeted for harassment by the Trump Administration,” and that she has received death threats, and that she is being punished for expressing her opinion.


27 posted on 06/24/2018 12:13:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: conservative98

oh my God, those obnoxious hats. I cannot believe her hubby is wearing this.


28 posted on 06/24/2018 12:13:54 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: TomServo

Not necessarily. There are some people here who are liberal trolls who’s only function is to disparage FR and the people who post.


29 posted on 06/24/2018 12:14:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: yesthatjallen
If this ever happens to you, Don't leave. Remain composed and call the police.

This is a wonderful idea which unfortunately will be lost on a small, albiet noisy, segment of paralyzed GOP'ers who sit in prayer circles awaiting their next issue of The Weekly Standard.

30 posted on 06/24/2018 12:14:42 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: conservative98

https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-red-hen-lexington-3?sort_by=date_desc

Yelp says they are censoring posts:

“This business is being monitored by Yelp’s Support team for content related to media reports.”

“Active Cleanup Alert

This business recently made waves in the news, which often means that people come to this page to post their views on the news.

While we don’t take a stand one way or the other when it comes to these news events, we do work to remove both positive and negative posts that appear to be motivated more by the news coverage itself than the reviewer’s personal consumer experience with the business.

As a result, your posts to this page may be removed as part of our cleanup process beginning Saturday, June 23, 2018, but you should feel free to post your thoughts about the recent media coverage for this business on Yelp Talk at any time.”


31 posted on 06/24/2018 12:15:51 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: conservative98

The owner said she took the action she did, because her gay employees were triggered


32 posted on 06/24/2018 12:16:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: lee martell

Pink p—hats on husband, too


How typical but how nauseating. Shows how little Dims are born and made——weak genes and low IQ of the men produce them.

I thought when they said Red Hen was feeling heat it meant as the flames went higher and the s— hole burned down to the foundation with only a few pink p=== hats in the blackened rubble.


33 posted on 06/24/2018 12:17:51 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting ,vote fraud & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: conservative98

Anyone know the over/under for when the Red Hen goes out of business?


34 posted on 06/24/2018 12:18:59 PM PDT by Renkluaf
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To: conservative98

Kinda weird how it’s a red Hen.

(dang, I quess)


35 posted on 06/24/2018 12:19:11 PM PDT by A strike (Natural events are just God moving His stuff around.)
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To: JonPreston

If this ever happens to you, Don’t leave. Remain composed and call the police.
This is a wonderful idea which unfortunately will be lost on a small, albiet noisy, segment of paralyzed GOP’ers who sit in prayer circles awaiting their next issue of The Weekly Standard.


LOL! Call the police and say what? My names tawanda and redden won’t give me a burger?

This is not police action stuff


36 posted on 06/24/2018 12:19:37 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: JonPreston
If this ever happens to you, Don't leave. Remain composed and call the police.
This is a wonderful idea which unfortunately will be lost on a small, albiet noisy, segment of paralyzed GOP’ers who sit in prayer circles awaiting their next issue of The Weekly Standard.


LOL! Call the police and say what? My names tawanda and red hen won't give me a burger?

This is not police action stuff

37 posted on 06/24/2018 12:20:49 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: ifinnegan

Big franchises should not be allowed to deny service for political reasons. Conservative is getting to be the same as old south black. Any libertarian who thinks that the market will fix this is living in a dream world.


38 posted on 06/24/2018 12:20:52 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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To: tuffydoodle

So typical. Not a hint of outrage and they blame the victims or the people standing up to the communists, and point out their errors.


39 posted on 06/24/2018 12:21:23 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Lean-Right

And history is proof. A leftist nut tried to kill conservative congressmen at a baseball game. They have rioted, burning things and destroying personal property.


40 posted on 06/24/2018 12:21:58 PM PDT by dhs12345
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