NYPD on hunt for fast food-loving robber in NYC

He’s a fast food fiend. 

A gun-wielding crook robbed a slew of junk food joints in the Bronx last month — and fled with a cash register during a brazen caught-on-camera stickup at one of the eateries, police said Wednesday. 

The real-life Hamburglar hit four chain restaurants over nine days and even ordered grub at two of them before brandishing a gun and demanding cash, according to the NYPD.

His first fast food foray occurred inside a Kennedy Fried Chicken, where he ordered a meal, whipped out a gun and snatched a wad of cash from the Claremont Village eatery near Third Avenue and St. Pauls Place on Feb. 17 at 1 a.m., cops said. 

A week later, on Feb. 25, the robber struck again — ripping out a cash register while threatening an employee in a Wing Stop near Edison Avenue and Wilkinson Avenue in Pelham Bay around 10 p.m., cops said. 

The junk food junkie then walked up to a McDonald’s drive-thru in Eastchester only an hour and a half later and grabbed $150 from an employee while brandishing his gun outside the restaurant near Conner Street and Boston Road, according to the NYPD. 

During his fourth and final gunpoint robbery, the scarf-covered bandit allegedly waltzed into a White Castle and snagged a cash register — but not before ordering food inside the restaurant in Soundview around 12:45 a.m. on Feb. 25. 

Surveillance footage captured him ripping out the register in front of terrified employees before casually walking out the door with it. 

After each robbery, he drove off in a black SUV, the NYPD said. 

The police department is asking anyone with information regarding these robberies to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.