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There has been a string of robberies at several restaurants in Arcadia’s Chinese district. Criminals often break down doors and rush towards cashiers, causing store owners to refuse to hand over cash for security reasons.
los angeles countySugar districtarcadia The restaurant was recently robbed, in which the criminals broke in by breaking the glass of the front door. Three other businesses on the same street were also burglarized at the same time. Robbers use similar methods to commit crimes and go straight to the cashier. The frequency of similar cases has forced some restaurants to refuse to let customers pay in cash, with shop owners saying they no longer feel safe.
According to KTLA-TV, the incident happened around 4:45 a.m. on Oct. 25 in the 4100 block of East Live Oak Avenue in Asia. They broke into the glass of a Mexican restaurant named La Casita del Sol. After entering the restaurant, the suspect took a speaker and a phone for employee use.
After the incident, the owner contacted the police and informed that this was the second time the restaurant had been robbed. Additionally, thieves also broke into three other nearby businesses at the same time, including Café 86, Fatburger and Fika Fika Coffee Shop. So far, police have not announced if the same suspects were involved in the robberies at these businesses.
Earlier this year, similar cases were reported at Café 86 and nearby businesses. Café 86 owners Elaine and Andrew Linga said surveillance footage shows at least three suspects breaking down the front door of the coffee shop and quickly walking toward the cashier, ABC 7 reported. One of them tore the cash register from the counter, while the other rummaged through the back of the store. The whole process took about 35 seconds, which was very fast.
Linga said the cash taken was not much, but it cost thousands of dollars to replace the broken glass door. He said the maintenance fee was equivalent to a day’s income of the store, and money that could have been used to improve the business was affected. The Linga couple later learned that after leaving Café 86, the suspect went to a nearby Fatburger restaurant and also allegedly took the store’s cash register.
Some restaurants have taken measures to reduce the risk of theft, including limiting or eliminating cash transactions, but this has caused a lot of inconvenience. Linga said he had to turn away customers who paid only in cash. Elaine said she no longer felt safe, adding that the store had many students and young customers without credit cards, as well as elderly people who were unfamiliar with electronic payments. She did not want these customers to be excluded because of this and canceling cash payments was a helpless move.
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The incident happened around 4:45 a.m. Oct. 25 in the 4100 block of East Oak Avenue in Arcadia, Los Angeles County. The glass door of La Casita del Sol restaurant was broken and three nearby businesses were burglarized at the same time.
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Surveillance footage shows that the suspects often approach the cashier directly. Some people go straight to the cash register, while others are browsing through the store. Take Cafe 86 for example, the cash loss was not much, but repairing the broken glass door cost thousands of dollars, which is equivalent to one day’s revenue.
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Shop owners believe that cash is an easy target for thieves, and frequent thefts make them not feel safe, so they have to limit or cancel cash transactions. However, it also impacts customers who only bring cash, young people and the elderly who are not familiar with electronic payments.
