The President says his credit card was declined while he was out to dinner with the first lady . The restaurant is run by a former staffer at Blue Hill at Stone Barns , a farm-to-table mecca in the Hudson Valley where the Obama family attended the wedding of their personal chef this summer . ` He also said that when he returned from dinner, a waitress told him she had been asked by her boss not to serve him. `` Luckily , Michelle had hers , '' he said , adding `` that I 've really been paying my bills '' He told the story to workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday .
The President says his credit card was declined while he was out to dinner with the first lady . ` He also said that when he returned from dinner, a waitress told him she had been asked by her boss not to serve him. `` Luckily , Michelle had hers , '' he said , adding `` that I 've really been paying my bills '' He told the story to workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday .