Chick-fil-A employee finds and returns $10,000 in bathroom, tries to refuse reward

A fast-food worker and good Samaritan made sure a customer was blessed with relief on Easter weekend.

On April 3, Jaydon Cintron, a Chick-fil-A worker in Kinston, North Carolina, became a hero to a customer who had misplaced two envelopes containing $9,833 in cash.

He found them that morning in the men’s restroom.

“They were on the floor next to the toilet. My first thought was just like, ‘Okay, no, this isn’t happening,” Cintron told NBC affiliate WITN on April 7. “Something is wrong.”

According to WITN, one envelope was labeled “First Citizens Bank” with $5,000 inside, and another, labeled “Truist Bank,” had $4,333 inside.

Rather than pocket the money himself, he “picked it up … and brought it to human resources,” Cintron said.

John McPhaul, the owner-operator of the Kinston Chick-fil-A, says he’s grateful for employees like Cintron.

“Acts like this reflect the values our restaurants aim to uphold each day, and we’re proud to see that lived out here at Chick-fil-A Kinston,” McPhaul said in a statement provided to TODAY.com by Chick-fil-A.

Cintron told the station the money was returned to its owner, who offered him $500 for turning it in.

“I don’t want anything out of this,” he told WITN, declining the money “several times” before he eventually relented.

“I was in the right place at the right time, but more than that, my faith teaches me to do what’s right and to care for others,” Cintron said in a statement provided to TODAY.com by Chick-fil-A.

“Knowing how devastating it would be to lose something like that, I just wanted to make sure it got back to its owner. I’m grateful I could help and I’m humbled by the response.”

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