Until the gunshots erupted.
Next thing fry cook Dylan Dahl knew, the windows in the restaurant exploded into transparent pebbles and he was roughly forced at gunpoint into the freezer by two large men.
They blindfolded and gagged him.
'He told me if I didn't give him all the frozen chicken, I'd wake up dead six feet underground,' Dahl said. 'It didn't make sense at the time, but when you have a gun shoved into the back of your head, what are you going to do?
Dahl complied. He handed over the company's supply of frozen chicken to his armed customers and they left him unharmed.
He returned to the dining area to find a mob of rioters destroying the restaurant.
'I saw my neighbor, and her daughter,' he said. ' ...an elementary school kid... pouring gasoline on the tables and chairs.'
Global shortages of processed chicken and other fast-food items like ketchup and dipping sauces have provoked rage and violence across the nation.
Local officials appear unprepared to deal with the chicken unrest that has finally spilled into the community.
'The council is proactively planning to bring these scofflaws to justice and prevent further distress in the community,' said Press Officer Angela Harding at a video briefing.
Harding took no questions, and members of the press wondered aloud why they bothered to come to the briefing at all.
The story Saturday was different at a nearby Burger King eatery. There was no broken glass, no armed thugs, no arson.
'Our chicken offerings always seemed to scare customers away rather than attract them, so it's pretty much business as usual here,' said manager Tony Butler. 'We're a little low on ketchup, but we have plenty of Whoppers.'
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