Faced with a customer irate over an incorrect order on Tuesday, an unnamed 34 year-old worker at a Philadelphia Popeye’s Chicken location used an escalation technique to resolve the dispute and get the rude guest to leave the premises: Stabbing the 28 year-old repeatedly in the head and torso, forcing him to run away and seek immediate medical attention, 6ABC Philadelphia reports.
“The 28 year-old customer had some sort of dispute with employees over a food order and began attacking and assaulting one of the employees,” said Chief Inspector Scott Small with the Philadelphia Police Department said of the altercation at the Popeye’s on the 6000 block of North Broad Street in the city’s Logan section – a joint known to be somewhat rowdy. “Other employees intervened and tried to push this 28-year-old out – back out from the front door. That’s when the 34 year-old employee getting assaulted and attacked pulled a knife and stabbed the 28 year-old.”
Cops say the employee is cooperating and has not been charged. The customer is being held at a nearby hospital in stable condition. The article seems to imply that he’s in trouble, not the worker.