Posted on 06/23/2018 1:56:12 PM PDT by Simon Green
Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — nearly 200 miles from the White House — when the choice presented itself.
Her phone rang about 8 p.m. It was the chef at the Red Hen, the tiny farm-to-table restaurant that she co-owned just off Main Street in Lexington, Va.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders had just walked in and sat down, the chef informed her.
“He said the staff is a little concerned. What should we do?” Wilkinson told The Washington Post. “I said I’d be down to see if it’s true.”
It seemed unlikely to her that President Trump’s press secretary should be dining at a 26-seat restaurant in rural Virginia. But then, it was unlikely that her entire staff would have misidentified Sanders, who had arrived last to a table of eight booked under her husband’s name.
As she made the short drive to the Red Hen, Wilkinson knew only this:
She 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.
And she knew — she believed — that Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked in the service of an “inhumane and unethical” administration. That she publicly defended the president’s cruelest policies, and that that could not stand.
“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson said. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive. This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”
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https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/restaurants-right-to-refuse-service.html
Restaurants: Right to Refuse Service
Do Restaurants Have the Unrestricted Right to Refuse Service?
No. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicitly prohibits restaurants from refusing service to patrons on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. In addition, most courts don’t allow restaurants to refuse service to patrons based on extremely arbitrary conditions. For example, a person likely can’t be refused service due to having a lazy eye.
But Aren’t Restaurants Considered Private Property?
Yes, however they are also considered places of public accommodation. In other words, the primary purpose of a restaurant is to sell food to the general public, which necessarily requires susceptibility to equal protection laws. Therefore, a restaurant’s existence as private property does not excuse an unjustified refusal of service. This can be contrasted to a nightclub, which usually caters itself to a specific group of clientele based on age and social status.
So Are “Right to Refuse Service to Anyone” Signs in Restaurants Legal?
Yes, however they still do not give a restaurant the power to refuse service on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin. These signs also do not preclude a court from finding other arbitrary refusals of service to be discriminatory. Simply put, restaurants that carry a “Right to Refuse Service” sign are subject to the same laws as restaurants without one.
What Conditions Allow a Restaurant to Refuse Service?
There a number of legitimate reasons for a restaurant to refuse service, some of which include:
Patrons who are unreasonably rowdy or causing trouble
Patrons that may overfill capacity if let in
Patrons who come in just before closing time or when the kitchen is closed
Patrons accompanied by large groups of non-customers looking to sit in
Patrons lacking adequate hygiene (e.g. excess dirt, extreme body odor, etc.)
In most cases, refusal of service is warranted where a customer’s presence in the restaurant detracts from the safety, welfare, and well-being of other patrons and the restaurant itself.
She will have more time for meaningless virtue signaling and patting herself on the back for her “bravery” once her restaurants close down. Way to stupidly ruin your business.
Because she’s a hate-filled bigot, AKA a progressive.
Maybe somebody should check out exactly what sort of "immigrant" they are. It would be a shame if they were in violation of visa requirements, documentation, and tax records. Illegal entry is a felony punishable by fines and imprisonment followed by mandatory deportation.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/06/john-blackburn/
https://alumni.as.virginia.edu/team
John Blackburn, Jr.
Assistant Director of Development
jab3w@virginia.edu
(434) 924-7926
Call ‘em and ask.
....anyone wanna wager at least 3 illegals work in the kitchen...
Why not?
RED hen all the way. What an offensive article. Scum says Sarah’s family could have stayed without her. What filth.
They may soon be all out of work. That’s real concern.
Stupid waiter!
It’s a good thing Sara got out when she did.
They might have slipped in a few Spirit Cooking ingredients......if you know what I mean.
From the link at #45:
“or a beet risotto using vegetables from Rancho Calixto, a family farm founded by immigrants from Mexico.”
I would boycott them if this was a chain.
Maybe they were concerned that the stupid leftwing bigot of an owner would do something to get their jobs destroyed. If so, they were right to be. Place ought to be a memory within six months.
Legally she can’t do whatever she wants.
Black hole density.
Lol! The owner is fishing for sympathy and understanding - validation even.
Sorry Simon but I can’t read the article unless I pay for it.....
Needs to be posted, often.
Soooo its ok if we identify our own tribe by some thing we all have in common and exclude others not in possession of the same trait? Ah! Good to know...
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