Around 4:00 a.m. on April 21, armed thieves entered a 24-hour McDonald's in Pembroke Pines, locked the employees inside a freezer, and looted the place.
Less than a week later, three robbers entered a Pompano Beach McDonald's at a quarter to eleven. One held employees at bay with a gun while the other two coerced the manager into handing over $10,000.
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On June 11, just before 5:00 a.m., two armed men wearing black clothes and ski masks stormed a McDonald's in Kendall, demanding that employees open the safe. They escaped with an unknown amount of money.
At a North Miami Beach Wendy's in the wee hours of March 22, three gunmen disguised in bandannas stormed the drive-through window. One of the men was apprehended days later, when he returned to order three Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers.
Last month a Wendy's manager working the graveyard shift was accosted after midnight by a disgruntled customer who demanded extra hot sauce. The manager complied, but was shot in the arm anyway. -- Isaiah Thompson