A customer stole a phone from a chicken shop in Agam Regency, Indonesia, after staff tended to a fire in the kitchen.

CCTV footage on October 12 shows a customer wearing a red helmet returning to the Ayam Geprek stall.

Carrying food that he bought earlier, the perpetrator picked up the mobile phone and made off with it on his motorbike.

Dayat Daffa, an employee, said the customer stole the phone when the shopkeeper tried to extinguish a fire in the kitchen.

"He bought a packet of chicken noodles and we served him. Before he left there was a bang in the kitchen, it turned out the stove exploded. We went to the kitchen to put out the fire," Daffa said.

"That customer then came back half an hour later to steal the phone while we were still in the kitchen," Daffa added.

The theft case was reported to the police with CCTV footage as evidence.

Fried chicken shop customer in Indonesia stole a phone on a table as the shopkeeper left it to fight a fire in the kitchen.

The buyer returned to the shop to steal the phone, but was caught on security cameras installed in every corner of the shop.

CCTV footage on October 12 shows customers wearing red helmets returning to the Ayam Geprek stall in Agam Regency, West Sumatra Province.

Carrying food that he bought earlier, the perpetrator came to the desk, brought his hand to the phone on the table, then returned to the motorbike to start the motorbike and direct it to the road.

The perpetrator returned to the service desk to steal the employee's phone, then rushed to his motorbike to flee the location.

Dayat Daffa, an employee, said the customer stole the phone when the shopkeeper tried to extinguish the fire that nearly caused a fire in the kitchen.

"He bought a packet of chicken noodles and we served him. Before he left there was a bang in the kitchen, it turned out the stove exploded. We went to the kitchen to put out the fire," Daffa said.

"That customer then came back half an hour later to steal the phone while we were still in the kitchen," Daffa added.

The theft case was reported to the police with CCTV footage as evidence.

The suspect was initially suspected of not intending to steal, but because of the opportunity, he changed his mind.