Keyshun Jones Charged in $80,000 Chick-fil-a Employee Fraud Case
Keyshun Jones was charged in the chick-fil-a employee fraud case after Texas police said the former Chick-fil-A worker used the restaurant’s point-of-sale system to issue about $80,000 in unauthorized refunds for mac-and-cheese trays. The Grapevine Police Department said the 23-year-old had been fired about one month earlier before returning to a branch and going behind the counter.
Police said the refunds involved the cost of 800 trays of mac-and-cheese, and records show Jones is now in custody at Green Bay prison in Fort Worth, Texas. He faces property theft, money laundering and evading arrest charges after a joint operation by the Texas attorney general’s Fugitive Task Force and the Fort Worth Police Department led to his arrest on April 17.
Grapevine Police Department
The police account says Jones returned to a Chick-fil-A branch after his firing and used a register behind the service counter. The store shared surveillance footage that appeared to show him wearing a brown puffer vest, blue jeans and a backwards white cap while working at the counter area.
That footage matters because it matches the allegation that he was inside the restaurant and able to reach the point-of-sale system. Police said he rang up catering-sized portions of mac-and-cheese and then refunded the orders to his personal credit cards.
Chick-fil-A catering menu
The charge centered on a menu item that is normally sold as a large tray at around $100 depending on location, according to the Chick-fil-A catering menu. Police said the refunds ran to $80,000, a total that far exceeds the price of the trays being rung up.
The baked macaroni dish described in the case has almost 10,000 calories. The filing ties the loss to repeated refund transactions rather than a single purchase, which is why the case includes property theft, money laundering and evading arrest charges.
April 17 arrest
Police said they tried to arrest Jones multiple times before taking him into custody on April 17. The arrest ended the immediate search for the suspect, but the case now moves into the criminal process on the charges filed against him.
For Chick-fil-A, the practical issue is the alleged use of a store register and refund system after an employee had already been fired. For Jones, the next step is the case built around the surveillance footage, the refund trail and the arrest that followed the joint operation.
