Taco Bell delivered a big surprise to three customers last week at a Kentwood, Michigan drive-thru. Instead of their order, the trio received $3,600 in cash.
Last Saturday, when Kennidi Rue, 18, boyfriend Grant Kruse, 20, and mutual friend Luke Postma 25 pulled up to receive the chicken burritos, two soft-shell tacos without cheese and drink they had ordered, they instead were handed a bag containing their sales receipt, the sauces they asked for…and $3,600, according to The Associated Press.
“I was about to hand my boyfriend his food and I said, ‘You guys, there’s no food in here. It’s just money,’” Kennidi said according to ABC News.
“I thought it was a candid camera joke.”
This however was no joke. There was no camera, and the taco bell employee who passed the bag of cash was not part of a TV show or prank.
When the three customers realized what was in their bag there were only about a mile away from the Taco Bell. Upon the discovery, they were faced with a serious decision.
“We just sat there and said, ‘What are we supposed to do?’” said Rue. “At first, we were like, ‘Think about what we can do with this money,’ but we weren’t raised like that. We realized we should give it back.”
Postma and Kruse, National Guard members, and Rue felt it was best to be good Samaritans, call the local police department to report the money and return back to Taco Bell. As they returned the cash to the Taco Bell manager, she was overwhelmed.
“The manager started bawling and was really shaken up and said, ‘Thank you so much,’” said Rue. “Right there, we thought, ‘Wow, we’re so glad we did the right thing. It was obviously a big deal for her.”
What the trio found strange however, was how after thanking them, the manager did not identify herself but returned to her office with the money and did not come back to say anything else to the customers. Instead, they remained until they received their original order and left the restaurant.
The three customers feel that they did the right thing, and know the unlikeliness of anything like that happening to them a second time. “I don’t think that will ever happen to us ever again,” Rue stated. ”[It was] the craziest thing ever, for sure.”
Within the last week, Taco Bell has denied to comment on the story and minimal information has been released from the restaurant, manager, employee or police. The three customers involved were told that it is store policy to place cash register money in to-go bags like the one they were mistakenly given and in that all that happened was a misplacement of that bag.