The Red Hen is a "tiny
farm-to-tablerestaurant" with 26 seats almost 200 miles from Washington, D.C., in
Lexington, Virginia(population 7,000).
[1] At about 8:00pm on Friday, June 22, 2018, The Red Hen's chef telephoned restaurant co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson to report that White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had entered the restaurant to dine with a group of about eight people.
[1] Wilkinson told The Washington Post that, after conferring with her employees, she told Sanders that the restaurant upholds standards "such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation" and asked Sanders to leave, which Sanders did.
[1] Wilkinson related that the other people at Sanders' table had been served appetizers and were invited to stay, but they also left, Wilkinson saying their appetizers were on the house.
[1] In the morning press briefing of Monday June 25, Sanders said that she and her husband went home.
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