Staff at the Shuswap Grill Gourmet Burgary have no beef with the person who took home one of the restaurant鈥檚 giant decorative hamburger now that it has been returned.

On Feb. 4, employees of the Salmon Arm restaurant went outside after the dinner rush and found the oversized faux burger had been taken from beside the dumpsters near the restaurant鈥檚 kitchen entrance.

A call was put out to the public to keep an eye out for the stolen sandwich, and it was not missing for very long.

Restaurant employee Dolena Koenig said about a week after the burger was taken, a man called the Burgary saying that he was the one who took it.

鈥淎 fellow phoned the following Monday, an older gentleman, and said that he had taken it. He backed in here and took it and thought it was garbage,鈥� Koenig said. 鈥淗e thought it was, I don鈥檛 know, something historic and he didn鈥檛 want to see it go to waste.鈥�

She said the man was very apologetic about taking the burger. He was informed by a neighbour who saw the burger that it was not garbage and that there were posts on the internet looking for information on its wherabouts.

Koenig explained to the man that the burger was not going to be thrown out but instead was sitting there waiting to be mounted on the railing by a banner for the restaurant.

鈥淚t鈥檚 back in its original place right now and once the snow goes we鈥檒l get it鈥� in a more permanent home there,鈥� Koenig said.

鈥淭he burger shall hopefully live here forever.鈥�

jim.elliot@saobserver.net
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