Days after a handful of people gathered outside to protest Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was dining inside and left via a side door to avoid the crowd, the steakhouse is feeling the heat: A Morton’s corporate executive warned managers around the country to prepare for “a massive wave … of negative response,” according to a report by Politico, as well as callers tying up the phone lines and people making fake reservations.

The Post could not independently verify the memo reportedly sent to managers by Scott Crain, the company’s senior vice president and chief operating officer. He did not return an email for comment. He also did not answer phone calls to a cell number connected to his name. His silence mirrored the advice he reportedly gave managers.

“As I stated yesterday, our comment is always ‘No Comment.’ We don’t respond, we don’t retweet, we don’t post on Instagram or Facebook, we don’t do anything. Please remind your teams (especially the hourly employees) of this policy,” he wrote managers, according to Politico.

As of Monday morning, Morton’s was requiring a credit card for reservations on OpenTable, though it wasn’t clear if that was a policy it put in place in response to the flood of table-bookers with no intention to show up.