Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Reveals She Was Forced To Leave Restaurant After Employees Claimed They Felt Threatened

This is a name in politics I haven’t heard in a while.

Former White House Press Secretary and now Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, has revealed she was forced to leave a restaurant in Little Rock.

Sanders, in a press release, shared that she was forced to leave a restaurant while having a meal with two other friends after employees claimed they felt threatened by Sander’s presence.

The Hill reported more on the incident:

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was asked to leave a Little Rock restaurant because its employees were “threatened” during a recent dining excursion.

“Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave,” the governor posted on the social platform X on Thursday.

“Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down,” she continued.

The Croissanterie in Little Rock offered its side of the story in a statement published by local media outlet THV11 on Wednesday, saying employees and other diners “raised questions” about the governor and her team remaining in the establishment.

“As business owners and members of this community, we recognized that any course of action carried consequences,” the restaurant said in the statement.

Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave.

Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and… https://t.co/oYtZQNkX8o

— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) March 19, 2026

Full Text:

Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave.

Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down.

An employee of the restraunt ahs since uploaded the following photo to Facebook:

UPDATE: After our story posted, employees at The Croissanterie posted this defiant picture. And now it all makes sense.

“I’m proud af to be gay” https://t.co/jAxjQl0bFL pic.twitter.com/OmYbzJtCmG

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) March 19, 2026

THV11 provided the restaurant’s side of the story:

In the restaurant’s statement, they said that allowing her to stay “risked being perceived as a lack of support for the community that makes up” their staff, but also asking Sanders and her team to leave “could be viewed as denying service based on differing beliefs.”

About an hour into the visit, a staff member approached someone on the security detail and “asked to encourage” the governor to leave, “as she had finished dining,” according to the statement.

Since the restaurant has a 90-minute table limit, the security detail was approached a second time and asked to leave roughly 10 minutes before that time limit.

As they were leaving, the governor’s staff said that a man allegedly yelled, “it’s time to go,” and then proceeded to make a crude hand gesture in the governor’s direction. The Croissanterie would say that man was a customer and not an employee.

What’s your take?