Brazen teens pilfer food, drink and tips money from Grand Central restaurant

The restaurant was closed, but that didn’t stop these brazen teens from helping themselves to food, drink, and the tip money. And it was all caught on CCTV footage. Watch it here.

Staff at Rozzi’s Real Italian in Grand Central arrived for their shifts on Monday morning only to find thieves had been at work overnight.

The freezer had been left open, food and drinks stolen, and “lots of things” were missing, alongside roughly $500 in tip money, owner Rahul Adhikari said.

“We had to throw out a lot of food.”

And it was all caught on CCTV footage.

In the first incident, which occurred at 3.45pm on the afternoon of Anzac Day, after the restaurant had shut up shop an hour earlier, a group of five girls can be seen walking past the table barricade at the front of the store and pilfering food and drink from the fridges and freezers.

Girls stealing food and drink from Rozzi's Real Italian in Grand Central on Sunday evening.

Then at 6.45pm, CCTV footage shows one of the original group returning with others to steal more food and drink, before they run off.

In the two years that Rahul and his wife Riya Thapa have owned Rozzi’s, they’ve worked hard to build up their business.

And this is the sixth time they’ve been targeted by different thieves.

Rozzi's Real Italian owner Rahul Adhikari talks about a recent theft at his Grand Central restaurant. Picture: Kevin Farmer

Mr Adhikari said he was releasing the footage in the hope that someone would know the girls or their parents and stop them from thieving again.

“I just want to stop it happening next time,” he said.

“That’s why I came to the media. I keep quiet, they steal five times.

“I just want to find out who it is and hopefully stop them from doing it again.”

A Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said investigations into the thefts were continuing.