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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gay employees were triggered....
“The owner said she took the action she did, because her gay employees were triggered”
Hahahaha, here comes the excuses! That’s not what she said when she told Sarah and her family to leave.
Did post #14 breeze right past your head? The idea is to annoy & pester leftist scum. Isn’t it about time, or is remaining a compliant conservative a better strategy?
I believe that was a photoshop.
Her gay employees were triggered?
Well, gee, when you loose your business and your pet queers are out of work.....what action will you take then? Sue conservatives for their wages?
[oh my God, those obnoxious hats. I cannot believe her hubby is wearing this.]
I can. They are part of the true believers in Obama, no doubt.
No real man would wear something so gay and queer. That’s a pajama-boy boy and a pajama-boy guy. It is obvious the old broad on the left wears the pants in that family.
Or all the food at the Communist Red Hen is laced with nuclear levels of estrogen.
I guess the dweeb in the middle did not get the memo that wearing a pink pu$$y hat does not help you to get laid.
Her husband’s balls are in her apron pocket. If he gets out of line, she gives them a firm squeeze.
Did post #14 breeze right past your head? The idea is to annoy & pester leftist scum. Isn’t it about time, or is remaining a compliant conservative a better strategy?
No, it didn’t. Did it just breeze by your head that there is nothing actionable by the police in this instance? Why drag in our men in blue?
Ridiculous! There are better ways to to annoy and pester scum.
Actually, if you refuse to leave....that is actionable, and lessens the conservative cause.
I’ve been wondering if the gold hammer and sickle is real.
It’s not a chain AFIK. They’re completely independent from each other. The bad one is in Lexington.
conservatives getting to be the same as old south black....
Do we have to obey the rules, obey the law and be totally quiet and “get along?” The leftists don’t.
As you said the old south blacks used to quietly accept bad things (like Muddy Waters and others who accepted being at the bottom.)
Are we cowards or family men and religious people who are afraid to step across a line?
“If this ever happens to you, Don’t leave. Remain composed and call the police.”
That is one way. Sarah works for the President and rather than nyah nyah, she left quietly with grace and class.
Before you share your ideas it's probably a good idea for you to learn the difference between lose and loose (your #45)
Soyboys with gloryhole faces.
“The whole family wearing Pink-PussyHats? Husband included?
I see.”
Like Comey, wife and two daughters.
actionable if we refuse to leave——
Things are much worse than I feared.
I know you aren’t to blame for reporting this but our horrible system of “justice” is sick stuff.
OMG. Browing thru the pictures for the restaurant is a hoot. The 4 Chan / 8 Chan humor patrol has been hard at work. There are various examples of guerrilla artwork. Well worth a browse.
“If this ever happens to you, Don’t leave. Remain composed and call the police.”
The dog shooters are going to care?
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