OAKLAND, Calif. ( KRON ) – Ongoing crime at an Oakland restaurant is frustrating its workers. They say they’ve recently been dealing with a barrage of break-ins, the latest happening Thursday morning.
The general manager of Agave Uptown says the restaurant has been broken into three times over the past three weeks and nearly two dozen times since the restaurant first opened. They say the constant crime is making their employees and customers feel unsafe.
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Security video of the latest break-in shows the latest burglary from around 5 a.m. Thursday. A man is seen ripping open the front doors of the restaurant after breaking a lock. He then calmly pockets a couple of bottles of liquor before leaving.
“Restaurants are dying little by little with this type of situation and this has to stop,” said Agave’s general manager Osvaldo Sanchez.
Sanchez says these types of crimes are happening far too often. Each one costs the small business thousands in repairs and lost inventory, all while putting workers on edge.