Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Red Hen restaurants around the world are getting blamed for kicking out Sarah Sanders

Jason Meinhardt’s restaurant The Red Hen, a small cafe in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, closed almost a decade ago. But over the past few days, Meinhardt has been fielding a stream of irate complaints about his defunct establishment, courtesy of an internet mob that’s pulled restaurants across the world into a round of White House political drama.

Last Friday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service at the Red Hen, a farm-to-table restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. A predictable firestorm started as soon as the news broke online. Donald Trump tweeted a complaint about the restaurant’s “filthy” exterior, while other people deluged the Red Hen’s Facebook and Yelp pages with bad reviews. But in their fervor...

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