An employee at a Washington, D.C., area restaurant was fired after speaking out about possibly refusing service to the next Trump administration official.
“Personally, I refuse to serve anyone in office who I know is a sex trafficker or who is trying to deport millions of people,” Congress said. Susannah Van Looy, a server at the Buchart Saloon in the Capitol, told The Washington Post this week. “It's not that we say, 'Oh, we don't like the Republican Party.' It's because this person has moral beliefs that strongly disagree with mine, and I don't feel comfortable serving them.” Masu.”
Her comments come amid local “resistance” as certain Trump figures reappear in public after several high-profile incidents during Trump's first term. Was part of the report on whether or not. They include then-aide Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was kicked out of a restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, and protesters who flocked to then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirsten Nielsen at a Mexican facility in Washington, D.C. was.
“People were much more motivated the first time they did this kind of show of passion. This time there's a kind of sense of defeat and acceptance,” Van Looy said, according to The Washington Post. Reported. “But I hope people will still stand up to this administration and tell us what they think of their wrongdoing.”
According to a review of Friday's LinkedIn page, which has since been deleted, Van Rooy's duties include running day-to-day operations, messaging restaurant strategy, building relationships with influencers and managing company events for politicians and VIPs. was listed. .
Her page also says she worked as an organizer for Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke, who unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2022.
Beuchert's Saloon told FOX News Digital that Van Looy's comments were “reprehensible” and that she was fired for violating the company's “zero tolerance policy for discrimination.”
Beuchert's said the former employee was a part-time server and not a manager. After the company learned of her comments on Thursday, it issued a statement on social media condemning her comments.
“Recent comments by a staff member who is not authorized to speak on behalf of the restaurant as a whole have rightly been marked as inappropriate, hostile, intolerant and unacceptable. This staff member is not authorized to speak on behalf of the restaurant as a whole. ,” Bouchert's initial statement Thursday said.
“After Inauguration Day in January, we will begin serving our fourth administration as a welcoming neighborhood restaurant on Capitol Hill. We will always be a safe place for everyone. It was Beuchert's Saloon. We would like to extend our sincere apologies to our staff for their comments. It does not represent our restaurant, does not reflect how we operate as a business, or how proud we are of being a gathering place on Capitol Hill. ”
By Friday, the restaurant announced it had decided to fire the server over the incident, calling her comments and subsequent actions “inexcusable.” It also said she signed on to the restaurant's social media accounts without authorization to speak on the restaurant's behalf.
“Not only does Ms Van Rooy's comment clearly violate our zero-tolerance policy on discrimination, but she also signed into our social media accounts in the middle of the night and posted a highly offensive response to the comment. The decision to post one's own rhetoric is a further violation of “Conduct and Protocol.'' “She is not authorized to speak on our behalf, and her comments do not reflect the positions of the more than 20 other people who make up our staff,” Friday's statement read. There is.
“For these reasons, and the utter disappointment and disgust we feel at her unacceptable behavior, Ms. Van Looy has been terminated with immediate effect. (Personally offended by Mr. Van Looy's comments) remains upset by Mr. Van Looy's behavior, and as a restaurant we are simply horrified to be associated with such vile bigotry.”
The comment further asked that the entire restaurant not be blamed for her wrongdoing.
“We continue to be a restaurant known for our warm service and friendly staff, and we hope you will visit us soon. We look forward to serving you. Everyone,” they wrote. are.
