On Friday night, President Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked to leave a small restaurant in rural Virginia. The restaurant's staff notified the owner that Sanders was in the restaurant and when she polled her staff, they decided, as a group, to ask her to leave. Owner Stephanie Wilkinson said the entire interaction was polite with no trouble on either end. (Sanders later tweeted about the experience.)

According to the Washington Post, the restaurant then experienced the predictable online firestorm of Yelp reviews from the administration's supporters and detractors, and had to cancel subsequent weekend reservations because of protests outside the restaurant and suspected fake reservations.

Who knows what Sanders was looking for when she shared the experience on Twitter. Commiseration? Backlash? Moral high ground? A public show of support from her boss? Beyond the sensationalism of a hot-button headline, the story is a clear reminder of the decisions, small and large, restaurant management makes on a daily basis to keep their restaurants running.