A shocking fraud case has unfolded in Grapevine, Texas, where a former employee of the popular fast-food chain Chick-fil-A stands accused of orchestrating an $80,000 theft scheme centered on unauthorized refunds for bulk catering orders of the restaurant’s signature mac and cheese. Local law enforcement has detailed how the ex-worker, identified by U.S. media as 23-year-old Keyshun Jones, returned to the Chick-fil-A location one month after his termination to carry out the scheme. According to official statements from the Grapevine Police Department, Jones made his way behind the restaurant’s service counter and processed orders for 800 large, catering-sized trays of Chick-fil-A’s famous three-cheese baked mac and cheese. Instead of fulfilling the actual orders, he then issued full refunds totaling $80,000 to his own personal credit cards. At a market rate of roughly $100 per large tray of the menu item, the total stolen amount matches the value of 800 full-sized servings of the popular side dish. Surveillance footage released by the store appears to confirm the sequence of events, showing Jones — dressed in a brown puffer vest, blue jeans and a backwards white cap, not the chain’s signature employee uniform — accessing the point-of-sale system at the counter to complete the unauthorized transactions. After the alleged scheme was uncovered, law enforcement attempted to take Jones into custody multiple times before a successful arrest on April 17. The capture was carried out through a joint operation between the Texas Attorney General’s Fugitive Task Force and the Fort Worth Police Department. Jones faces three formal charges: property theft, money laundering, and evading arrest. Court records indicate he is currently being held at the Green Bay correctional facility in Fort Worth. The New York Times reports that Jones’s legal representation has declined to comment on the charges against him. It remains unclear what led to Jones’s initial termination from the Chick-fil-A location one month prior to the alleged incident, and details about the timeline of the fraud investigation have not been fully released by authorities. The BBC has confirmed it has reached out to Chick-fil-A’s corporate media office to request a statement on the case, with no official response released as of yet. For context, Chick-fil-A’s large catering trays of mac and cheese clock in at nearly 10,000 calories per serving, making the 800 trays implicated in the scam a staggering total of 8 million calories — a detail that has drawn viral attention to the unusual case on social media.