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Customers Attack Burger Joint Worker After Being Asked to Leave: NYPD

November 1, 2016 4:13pm | Updated November 1, 2016 4:13pm
Mother Burger at 329 W. 49th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues.
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DNAinfo/Maya Rajamani

HELL’S KITCHEN — A pair of irate customers attacked a burger joint's 62-year-old employee when he asked them to leave the restaurant after it had closed, the NYPD said.

The Mother Burger worker approached the two women around 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 27 and told them the eatery at 329 W. 49th St. had closed, police said.

But the women refused to leave the restaurant and began punching and kicking the man, the NYPD said.

The staffer was left with bruises and scratches on his face, police said.

One of the women left her cellphone behind as she fled the scene, the NYPD said.

A manager working at Mother Burger on Tuesday declined to comment on the incident.

Neither of the women had been arrested as of Monday.

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