KNIGHTDALE, N.C. (WTVD) — A Knightdale restaurant’s staffers used their day off Monday by surprising shoppers at a Food Lion and purchasing their groceries.
A manager at A’Nets Katch relayed a message to employees from Annette Brown, one of the owner’s, to meet at the supermarket’s parking lot at 5 p.m.
“It was only then that we explained them how this exercise was going to go and what the purpose was behind it,” said Annette Brown, who owns A’Nets Katch with her husband.
One by one, restaurant employees walked around the supermarket and made a connection with a shopper. They then grabbed an item for themselves and waited behind that shopper in the check-out line. When it came time for the shopper to pay, the employee stepped up with a company credit card and took care of the bill.
“Their mind was just making sure that they were taking care of their family, and …