$100,000 in Cash Found Left Behind at Burger King Restaurant

SAN FRANCISCO – An employee of a Burger King restaurant in San Jose, California, in the southwestern U.S., found a backpack stuffed with $100,000 that had been left behind on one of the seats of the fast-food establishment, a discovery that was reported to police and is now under investigation.

The employee was cleaning tables when she came upon an abandoned backpack, which she reported to the manager who proceeded to open it.

“I opened the pack hoping to find documentation that would allow me to get in touch with the owner, but instead of that I found a ton of money in bills of up to $100,” the proprietor and manager Altaf Chaus said Friday on local TV channel KGO.

Chaus notified the police, who went to the restaurant and saw that the backpack contained $100,000 in cash, along with some caramels and marijuana, for which reason an investigation was opened to determine where the money came from.