San Francisco restaurant Hilda and Jesse is catching the heat in and outside the kitchen following an incident on Friday when three uniformed, on-duty police officers were ordered to leave because their service weapons made employees “uncomfortable,” per CNN. 

The restaurant’s response that police were allowed to return “when they are off duty, out of uniform, and without their weapons” provoked outrage online, and the place was swamped with bad comments on review sites like Yelp as a result. 

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Yelp has since disabled publication of the restaurant’s comments and reviews, saying while they don’t take position on the incident, they want to ensure the content viewers see represents actual consumer experiences rather than current events featured in the news. 

“We wear uniforms but we’re all humans,” San Francisco Police Chief William Scott told CNN. “We get things done to us and said to us that are hurtful, but we have to rise above it and be professional. That’s what these officers did.” 

In an interview with ABC7 News, Hilda and Jesse co-owner Rachel Sillcock said they don’t allow weapons in the restaurant at all, noting “it doesn’t matter what you do, whether you’re a security guard or a policeman.” 

Sillcocks and co-owner Kristina Liedags Compton have since apologized in an Instagram post, saying they made a mistake by asking the officers to leave. 

“We are grateful to all members of the force who work hard to keep us safe, especially during these challenging times,” the statement said. “We hope this will be a teachable moment for us as we repair and continue to build bridges with the SFPD. These are stressful times, and we handled this badly.” 

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While Scott has accepted the owners’ apology, he said it is critical to sit down and discuss opposing viewpoints regarding police officers and policing, noting it’s OK to respectfully “agree to disagree.”