Sarah Sanders Paid Her Bill and Left a Tip and the Left Flipped Her Off Anyway

Sarah Huckabee Sanders paid her bill, left a tip, and still got the middle finger on the way out the door.

That's what the party of tolerance delivered to Arkansas's governor this week.

The restaurant that did it is already learning what the Red Hen learned in 2018.

The Governor Who Paid and Tipped Still Got the Middle Finger

On March 13, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat down for lunch near her kids' school at The Croissanterie on Cantrell Road.

She brought two mom friends.

She ordered food.

She ate it.

She paid for it.

She left a tip.

Then the owner walked over to her state police security detail and said the governor's presence was making employees "feel threatened and uncomfortable due to her political views" – and asked her to leave.

Sanders stood to comply.

That's when someone standing with the café staff started shouting and flipped her off on the way out.

Sanders took it with grace, posting that the restaurant "didn't meet" Arkansas's standard of warm hospitality.

"My administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down," she wrote.

The café released its own statement admitting staff let her sit, eat, and pay before deciding they had a political problem.

"Allowing her to stay risked being perceived as a lack of support for the community that makes up the majority of our team," the owners wrote.

The "community" in question was gay employees who objected to Sanders' politics.

This Is a Pattern the Left Calls Tolerance

This is not a one-off.

In 2018, the left ran an organized campaign to make Republican officials unwelcome in public life.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was surrounded by protesters at a Mexican restaurant in Washington.

Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife were chased out of a D.C. restaurant by a mob screaming about his support for Brett Kavanaugh.

Sen. Mitch McConnell was followed out of two Louisville restaurants in the same week.

Maxine Waters stood at a Los Angeles rally and told supporters to find anyone from Trump's cabinet – in a restaurant, a department store, a gas station – and push back on them.

The left's media celebrated every one of these incidents as acts of moral courage.

The Red Hen got a Washington Post profile for kicking Sanders out in 2018.

That restaurant closed in 2023.

Sanders went home, ran for governor of Arkansas, and won.

Now she's back at a restaurant in her own state, eating lunch with friends, and the left is still coming for her.

Here Is What Political Tolerance Means in 2026

The Croissanterie is already getting hammered on Yelp by customers who were present for the incident.

But the real issue isn't one café in Little Rock.

The real issue is that the radical left has decided that political disagreement is a safety emergency.

Sanders wasn't loud.

She wasn't causing a scene.

She was eating a meal near her kids' school, with two friends and a security detail she's required to have because the left has made public life dangerous for conservative officials.

The café's response was to treat her presence – a sitting governor in her own state, having already finished her meal – as something requiring intervention.

The word they used was "threatened."

Sanders wasn't threatening anyone.

She was tipping the staff.

The Red Hen discovered the cost of that bet in 2023 when it closed for good.

Sanders went home, ran for governor of Arkansas, and won.

The Croissanterie is about to learn the same lesson – and you can help teach it.

Find them on Yelp. Leave a review. Tell them what you think of a business that lets a governor pay her bill, tip the staff, and then flips her off on the way out.

That's not courage. That's the radical left showing you exactly who they are – and Sarah Sanders, as usual, showing you exactly who she is.

Sources:

• Andrew Mark Miller, "Sarah Sanders flipped off, kicked out of restaurant that claims employees were 'uncomfortable,'" Fox News, March 19, 2026.
• Teri Christoph, "'Party of Tolerance' Kicks Sarah Huckabee Sanders Out of Little Rock Croissant Café," RedState, March 19, 2026.
• Mary McCue Bell, "Arkansas governor asked to leave restaurant because it made people uncomfortable," The Washington Times, March 19, 2026.
• Brent Scher, "Red Hen Déjà Vu: Sarah Sanders Kicked Out Of Arkansas Restaurant, Flipped Off By Staff," The Daily Wire, March 19, 2026.
• Staff, "West Little Rock restaurant says staff asked Sanders to leave because workers, guests were made 'uncomfortable,'" Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, March 19, 2026.