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Baum Blvd. Pizza Hut Robbed

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Employees are shaken up after a robbery at a local Pizza Hut.

It happened on Baum Boulevard at about 6 p.m. Monday. A man walked in, showed his gun and demanded money from the cash register.

"When I saw him look at me and say, 'Get down!' I knew that it wasn't a joke anymore," a worker said.

The employee ran out the back door to a nearby CVS and called police.

He ran out the backdoor to the nearby cvs and called police. His boss was still inside handing over the contents of the register which was somewhere around $50.

Pittsburgh police say after the robber took the money, he ran up Baum Boulevard towards Morewood Avenue.

Police are looking into the possibility that the man drove away in a brown car which is what a robber was driving recently when he held up the same store.

Police are looking for a black man with a newly grown beard who is 6-feet tall and weighs around 200 pounds.

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