A restaurant server in the Washington D.C. area was fired after commenting about refusing service to certain officials in President Trump’s incoming administration.
“I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,” Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, reportedly said.
“It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them,” Van Rooy added, according to Fox News.
D.C. restaurant server fired after comments about refusing service to some Trump officials https://t.co/ZZQyq0Rn0H
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 14, 2024
Per Fox News:
Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local “resistance” to certain Trump figures when they were in public settings again after several high-profile incidents during his first term. They included then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a restaurant in Lexington, Va., and protesters swarming then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a D.C. Mexican establishment.
“People were a lot more motivated the first time around to do those kinds of shows of passion. This time around, there is kind of a sense of defeat and acceptance,” Van Rooy said, according to the Washingtonian. “But I hope that people still do stand up to this administration and tell them their thoughts on their misbehavior.”
According to a review of her LinkedIn page on Friday, which has since been taken down, Van Rooy listed her duties as doing daily operations, messaging strategies for the restaurant, developing relationships with influencers, and managing in-house events for political figures and VIPs.
ADVERTISEMENTHer page also said she worked as an organizer for Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s failed run for governor in 2022.
Beuchert’s Saloon fired Van Rooy after her comments, saying she violated their “zero-tolerance policy on discrimination.”
D.C. server fired for saying she would refuse to serve some Trump officials https://t.co/LvxPouptIN pic.twitter.com/qxj9FuKz1n
— The Independent (@Independent) December 15, 2024
So the Washingtonian, a rag in DC ,thought it a good idea to interview a server/ media person at a restaurant in DC about her bias’s.
Ultimately causing outrage and getting the poor girl fired.
They really are eating their on. pic.twitter.com/IsYU86FRdl
— Terri Wallace (@TerriWallace123) December 14, 2024
From Independent:
Beuchert’s called Van Rooy’s comments to the magazine “unacceptable.”
“Recent comments made by a member of staff who had no authority to speak on behalf of our entire restaurant have been, quite rightly, flagged as inappropriate, hostile, intolerant, and unacceptable. This staff member does NOT speak for us as a restaurant,” the restaurant said in a statement.
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