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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There are also those who post idiotic crap, generally calling for the extermination of some group or the other.
“...old south black” what the hell does that mean?
Two weeks.
I got it, thanks JonP :)
I really did laugh out loud when I was your posting. Excellent.
I just got off reading the actual Red Hen Yelp posts. Who knew it was a comedy site? Not for Red Hen but I was have not a great laugh! I wonder if that Nazi bitch owner feels smart today?
In a little bit there will be someone along who will tell you how many bullets conservatives have and how the scummy liberals will rue the day that they pushed the right into CWII and how "we will so waste them".
Even with that, the left will continue their non-stop monkey cage screaming.
As I see it, if this was 1775, it would be about October now.
You bet KC!
Her employees are definitely not happy (gay). They are angry bitter HOMOsexuals
What I really meant :
Kinda weird how it’s a RED Hen.
(dang, I guess)
But really, it all goes along with the Red antifa Left, brought to you by the Communist Soros.
These idiots don’t realize there’s more of us than of them.
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Apparently you don’t read the papers or check the daily news, local & national.
D Trump and his supporters are the most reviled, hated group in the country and we will show you ALL of these non PDT people every night and 24/7 on cable.
Since this is the message that is being pushed, it is impossible that there are enough Trump supporters to back this kind of action.
(very sarcastic and though I don’t watch any of the above mentioned stations and broadcasts or read most papers, I am just going by what I am told...<: <: <:)
It means being arbitrarily denied service in restaurants. The kind of behavior that motivated the 1964 Civil Rights Act - which Senator Barry Goldwater opposed on grounds that people had the free association right to not provide a service to someone, just because.Thomas Sowell has noted that although Democrats like to claim that society has not improved and ever more government in needed, he - a black man - was able to publicly dine with a white blonde woman in a restaurant in Atlanta without incident. Whereas back in his youth, he would have gotten lynched for trying that.
It is progress if people have to ask what “being treated like an old south black” means.
On second thought, he deserves every exquisite moment of angst and pain he had, has and will ever get.
Husband and son totally hen pecked. Must be hell married to a total b#%ch that after awhile you just do whatever she says. Comey is hen pecked too. Probably pics of him somewhere in his pink hat. Are there any liberal men that act like MEN?
When I was in junior high and high school a guy doing something that queer would be called “a total fag”.
And it was correct.
Yes, but yelp is planning to prune away all the recent negative comments and leave the 5 star comments in place. You have to wait a couple of weeks to rate this eatery, and don’t comment about the current episode. Just say the food was bad, the service was snobbish and slow, and when you complained the management was indifferent.
Thanks for posting that photo.
Any young son who would be so foolish to wear that pink hat must have some really messed up parents who said it would be ok to do so.
i don’t know any that do, and i know a couple of conservative men whose wives run the whole show. If he wants to show support, just drive to wherever and pick up when she calls you. But NOT THE HAT!!!
I lived through the Jim Crow years, Democrat created, in the South. But that all started to change with Rosa Parks.
Apparently you know anything about me.
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