Chef Tommy Banks was devastated when his truck full of $30,000 worth of pies was stolen, but the Michelin-starred chef has urged the robbers to give them to those in need.
In an Instagram video posted on Monday, just after the pies were taken, Banks stated, “I know you’re a criminal, but maybe just do something nice because it’s Christmas and maybe we can feed a few thousand people with these pies that you’ve stolen. Do the right thing.”
2,500 pies with a range of ingredients, such as steak and ale, turkey, and butternut squash, were packed inside the refrigerated van, according to Banks.
He claimed that when staff members went to get the vehicle in the morning from the business park in Ripon, a northern British cathedral city, it had been stolen. To keep the pies fresh, he explained, it had been plugged in all night.
He went on to say that he intended to set up a pop-up shop in the adjacent city of York to sell the pies.
He stated the thieves should drop the pies off somewhere so they may be handed to people in need of food and they are not wasted, even though he acknowledged that it was doubtful they would return the car.
He went on, “I know they’re gone now, and we obviously aren’t going to recover them to sell.” We could serve 2,500 people, in my opinion, and many people are in dire need of a hot dinner at the moment. They can have them if we can locate them.
Banks, a seasoned judge on the British culinary program The Great British Menu, urged anyone in the public who receives pies bearing his name from someone who is not him to call the authorities.
North Yorkshire Police have been contacted by NBC News for a statement.
For the robbers themselves, he had a harsher message.
In a different post on his personal and professional Instagram accounts, he stated, “I hope you don’t get any presents this Christmas.”
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