WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — A dinner run ended in handcuffs Monday evening after a hungry customer cut in line, barged into an employee-only kitchen, and shoved a restaurant worker over an unpaid bag of food, authorities said.
Polk County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a Winter Haven restaurant around 6:45 p.m. following reports of an unruly customer attacking an employee.
Investigators said the trouble started when 49-year-old John Joseph Sarlo cut ahead of another patron waiting at the counter and began aggressively berating staff about his to-go order. Fed up with the hostility, the worker refused to hand over the food, which Sarlo had not yet purchased…