The Red Hen Reopens to Protesters and a Fully Booked Dining Room

[Bourbon]

After a two-week hiatus, the Lexington, Virginia restaurant that ejected Sarah Huckabee Sanders is open once again. The Red Hen ignited a political firestorm after asking the White House Press Secretary to leave mid-meal on June 22, sparking online harassment, wild conspiracy theories, and the doxxing of its owner, and it closed its doors a few days later as the restaurant was swarmed by protesters — until reopening on Thursday night.

According to USA Today, a mixed group of protesters and hopeful customers waited outside for the Red Hen to open at 5 p.m. The former carried signs with messages like “Red Hen 2018 = 1960 Woolworth Lunch Counter,” while the latter were turned away unless they had a reservation. (A sign in the restaurant’s window explained it was fully booked.)

The Red Hen’s owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, previously told the Washington Post that she decided to ask Sanders to leave partway through her meal because she believed Sanders worked for an “inhumane and unethical” administration. The restaurant quickly became the target of harassment, a fury that was fueled by a tweet from the President himself: Wilkinson’s home address and phone number were circulated online, Twitter users urged immigration officials to investigate the restaurant for allegedly employing undocumented workers, and protesters swarmed outside.

The Red Hen incident is just one of the recent instances where Trump officials have been confronted in restaurants, either by the owners or by other diners: Homeland Security secretary Kristjen Nielsen was confronted by activists while dining at a Mexican restaurant in D.C. on June 19, while Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt had his lunch interrupted earlier this week by a woman who urged him to resign. (Pruitt resigned from his post on Thursday following numerous high-profile scandals.)

Restaurants in most areas (one major exception being Washington, D.C.) are well within their legal rights to refuse service based on political affiliation, and many — including Rep. Maxine Waters, who faced subsequent death threats — have encouraged citizens to continue making Trump officials uncomfortable.

https://www.eater.com/2018/7/6/17539...s-lexington-va

[Getin the ring]

So easily amused you nut-bags.

This place will be closed for good, I give it a month, tops

[mak2]

Millions of dollars of free advertising. Kinda like Chick-fil-a.

[Bourbon]

So easily amused you nut-bags.

This place will be closed for good, I give it a month, tops

What's wrong ... Sour Milk in your Cornflakes this morning?

Things not working out as planned?

[PostmodernProphet]

I wonder if anyone pissed in the gravy.......

[Bourbon]

I wonder if anyone pissed in the gravy.......

I wonder if a Trump Supporter is sitting at a Table ...

How about you check on that first and I'll get back to you on the other.

[SmarterthanYou]

I'd have the FDA in there once a week for inspections and failures.......shut them down.

[Bourbon]

I'd have the FDA in there once a week for inspections and failures.......shut them down.

But MarlaGo can't pass even once in 17 tries ...

Go ahead ... call them

[Irish]

Yay fascism! Let's show our support folks! Go to the gay n lesbian staffed red hen and show our support for intolerance!

-The left

[TOP]

The sign said "fully booked"...but no one seems to be able to offer any evidence at all that it actually was....a former customer tried to get a table, but was turned away. She mentioned that she saw quite a few empty places and was disappointed that she was turned away...
Hmmm....guess they couldn't squeeze her in...

[Mason Michaels]

The sign said "fully booked"...but no one seems to be able to offer any evidence at all that it actually was....a former customer tried to get a table, but was turned away. She mentioned that she saw quite a few empty places and was disappointed that she was turned away...
Hmmm....guess they couldn't squeeze her in...

Obsessed much?

[TOP]

So easily amused you nut-bags.

This place will be closed for good, I give it a month, tops

It probably won't be long....They can screen reservations and bring "their" people in for awhile, but that will get old-and more difficult....
Wait until the first table comes in and orders only tea. Or just makes a reservation and uses the bathroom and then leaves...Or the ones who bought GC and handed them out to specially selected groups.....Or takes off the suit coat after appetizers, with MAGA t-shirts underneath...
Stephanie Wilkinson made an business "decision" that will go down in history. Her only chance for redemption would be to admit to making that error and apologize. And open the doors to everyone....
Farm to table is such a great concept, but she found a way to ruin it....

[Bourbon]

Bump to Da-Top

[Frank Apisa]

Wow...the right-wing nut-case of JPP...have certainly been triggered by this!

Awwww.

[Legion]

So easily amused you nut-bags.

This place will be closed for good, I give it a month, tops

Predictions are never wise, dear Diva.

Having said that, keep in mind that the Ded Hen seats a whopping 26 people, so selling it out (by reservation only - a new policy, BTW) isn't very hard.

I wonder how many diners actually turned up to honor their reservations.

Don't you?