Employees should have been armed with pepper spray.
That would have been good to neutralize the situation.
The fry cook seems to have devised a new definition for chivalry:
“I felt so angry because I couldn’t do anything. These are ladies,” said fry cook Rafael Nunez, 38, who captured the insanity on his phone. “I had knives in the shop, but I can’t use those. Recording was the only way to defend myself.”
Employee Maria Baez, 33, who needed a staple in her head after being struck by one of the tablet cash registers, said she hasn’t left her house since the incident.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/bel-fries-shop-owner-dismayed-no-one-came-to-her-staffs-rescue/