Governor's office: Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked to leave Little Rock restaurant after Friday lunch

[LiberalArkie]

March 18, 2026

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she was asked to leave a Little Rock restaurant after her office claims that the restaurant’s owner said employees felt “threatened and uncomfortable.”

According to a Wednesday night statement from the governor’s office, Sanders, while accompanied by an Arkansas State Police protection detail, was having lunch on Friday at the Little Rock restaurant called The Croissanterie.

“After the group had been seated at two separate tables for about an hour and fifteen minutes and had paid and tipped the restaurant staff, The Croissanterie’s owner approached a member of the Governor’s Executive Protection Detail and asked the Governor to leave because her presence was ‘making employees threatened and uncomfortable’ because of her political views,” the governor’s spokesperson said.

The governor’s spokesperson stated that Sander’s group began to leave the restaurant when a man standing with members of the staff, “yelled ‘it’s time to go’ and made a crude hand gesture in the Governor’s direction.”

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https://www.kark.com/news/governors-office-sarah-huckabee-sanders-asked-to-leave-little-rock-restaurant-after-friday-lunch/

[displacedvermoter]

1. I believe he meant "it's time for you to stop being governor"

Though I imagine eating in the same space as her would be pretty off-putting.

[Pototan]

2. Why make a public spectacle?

What ever happened to the old-fashioned way to make your point as a server?

Just spit in the food.

[angrychair]

3. Who says they didn't

Because I promise you they did that or worse.

A solid rule of life that should be taught to children early in life: "never be rude to people making your food in a completely different room then you."

[twodogsbarking]

4. She would spoil a good meal.

[area51]

5. Maybe a restaurant patron could ask her

how her podium is working out for her.

[niyad]

6. Video, or this did not happen.

[LiberalArkie]

7. If the restaurant had any video, the state police would have taken it.

I doubt that any restaurant like it when she comes in with 10-20 state police officers and other aides. She has always thought she should have the same treatment as the president. I believe she carried 10 ASP officers with her when she went on her 2023 trip and bought the $19,000 lectern.

[niyad]

8. Entitled little princess, is she not? I certainly would never want her

in any place that I owned. Would need a hazmat team, and several exorcists to cleanse it.