--- title: Restaurant Owner on Why She Asked Sarah Sanders to Leave description: The restaurant owner who asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her establishment on Friday night said she was not regretting her decision. canonical: https://time.com/5320482/sarah-huckabee-sanders-virginia-restaurant/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-24T14:23:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:39:58.733Z article:section: Politics og:title: 'I Would Have Done the Same Thing Again.' 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Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary, speaks during a press conference at the White House briefing room in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 12, 2018\. Sanders said that President Donald Trump plans to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington on March 20\. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg—Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Jun 24, 2018 2:23 PM UTC The owner of the Virginia restaurant who asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave her establishment on Friday night said she did not regret her decision. “I would have done the same thing again,” Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant [told the Washington _Post_.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/23/why-a-small-town-restaurant-owner-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave-and-would-do-it-again/?noredirect=on&utm%5Fterm=.7a96498da6af) “We just felt there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions. This appeared to be one.” The small restaurant found itself in the national spotlight after Sanders tweeted Saturday morning that she had been asked to leave Red Hen, which is located in Lexington Virginia, because she works in the Trump administration. Sanders did not mention Wilkinson by name, but it was clear the press secretary disagreed with her decision. “Her actions say far more about her than about me,” Sanders said. “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.” > [](https://twitter.com/presssec/status/1010536237457924096) Wilkinson told the _Post_ that she wasn’t even in the restaurant when Sanders initially entered; she received a call from the chef at 8 p.m., who told her that Sanders was in the restaurant and the staff was concerned. When she arrived at the restaurant, she told the staff that she could ask Sanders to leave, and they said they wanted her to do that. Wilkinson told the _Post_ that she generally tries to avoid politics, and disagrees politically with several of her regular customers, but ultimately felt that Sanders’ public defense of the Trump Administration qualified as an exception. “This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals,” she told the _Post._ Wilkinson said she told Sanders “the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.” Wilkinson also said she did not charge Sanders for the food the group had ordered and the cheese plates they had eaten. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5320482/sarah-huckabee-sanders-virginia-restaurant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5320482/sarah-huckabee-sanders-virginia-restaurant/"},"headline":"'I Would Have Done the Same Thing Again.' 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