If you work in the fast food industry, the risk of getting robbed is one of the most terrifying things you can think of, right behind getting yelled at by a woman with a soccer mom haircut.

Chen's Garden in Brooklyn, New York was on the verge of getting robbed by a hooded man with a knife, but the employees were able to fight him off with, of all things, soup ladles, according to the NY Daily News.

The video from the January 4 incident shows the assailant, who's dressed like Kenny McCormick from South Park, pull out what looks to be at least a 5-inch knife. By the time the bandit tried hopping over the restaurant counter, but the employees' instincts told them to grab some cooking utensils and fight back.

It actually worked.

The restaurant's owner, Yan Lin, told the news outlet that she immediately grabbed a knife, while the cook ran out with a soup ladle in hand, after which they just started waving their weapons at the robber, hoping he wouldn't get to them.

While they were able to successfully fight the attacker off, that same night, the suspect got away with $533 at a nearby Baskin-Robbins.

The guy is still out there, but it would be key for Brooklyn restaurants to know that apparently ladles are his weakness.