WASHINGTON — A D.C. restaurant clarified on Twitter that it was not the restaurant that White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave on Friday night.
Good morning! @PressSec went to the unaffiliated @RedHenLex last night, not to our DC-based restaurant.
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 23, 2018
The restaurant that Sanders was asked to leave was in Lexington, Virginia, and has no affiliation with the D.C. location, a fact the restaurant repeatedly mentioned on Twitter.
You have the wrong restaurant. Separate companies separate businesses separate owners no affiliation. That one is in Virginia. Businesses in DC are prohibited from discriminating against people for political affiliation because we are a federal district.
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 23, 2018
You have the wrong restaurant. Separate companies separate businesses separate owners no affiliation. That one is in Virginia. Businesses in DC are prohibited from discriminating against people for political affiliation because we are a federal district.
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 24, 2018
Several people on Twitter wanted to know if the D.C. restaurant would have asked Sanders to leave as well.
“Businesses in D.C. are prohibited from discriminating against people for political affiliation because we are a federal district,” the Red Hen D.C. tweeted. “We have patrons from both sides of the aisle.”
Sanders tweeted that she was told by the owner of the Red Hen in Virginia on Friday that she had to “leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left.”
As of Sunday morning, the Red Hen D.C.’s Twitter account was still trying to explain the situation.
— The Red Hen (@RedHenDC) June 24, 2018
