Deputies are searching for the person responsible for smashing several windows at an Orange County restaurant. It happened early Friday morning at the Dough Show, which is not far from UCF. The owner of the restaurant said he got a call from the guy who delivers their bread. “At 6 a.m., the guy called me. I was up already for prayer and he said, ‘OK, I have bad news for you,'” the owner, Ihab Mahmoud, said. The delivery man told him about the damage to the restaurant. That’s when Mahmoud pulled up his security cameras. “He came all around,” Mahmoud said of the person in the video “He broke everything. All the storefront.”The person used patio furniture and parts of a lawn game to smash multiple windows. Based on the video the owner shared, the whole incident lasted less than two minutes and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage. “At least three days of what we do here,” Mahmoud said. “Net profit.” The Dough Show opened back in March 2023, initially serving Egyptian food before expanding to Syrian and Turkish, too. The owner hopes the attack was random and not based on their background. “With the video we saw, you cannot tell if it’s hate or not,” Mahmoud said.He took video Friday showing the shattered windows, some with chairs still sticking through them. And glass littering the ground inside and outside his store. “It was glass all the way all around,” Mahmoud said. “It takes us like five hours just to clean everything.”But they were ready to open by 11 a.m. Friday. According to an incident report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, they processed multiple chairs for fingerprints with no results. By Monday night, the incident was still under investigation. “He needs help. I believe this guy needs help,” Mahmoud said of the person responsible. He says he’d be the first to help them.While deputies search for a suspect, the community has been supporting the Dough Show. “I got calls from a hundred people, maybe half of them, I don’t know. They want to support,” Mahmoud said. He described business Friday as “crazy busy.” “If that happened to anyone, I would go and support too,” he said. “This is how the community is supposed to be, and this is the word of peace we need to spread around.”
Deputies are searching for the person responsible for smashing several windows at an Orange County restaurant.
It happened early Friday morning at the Dough Show, which is not far from UCF. The owner of the restaurant said he got a call from the guy who delivers their bread.
“At 6 a.m., the guy called me. I was up already for prayer and he said, ‘OK, I have bad news for you,'” the owner, Ihab Mahmoud, said.
The delivery man told him about the damage to the restaurant. That’s when Mahmoud pulled up his security cameras.
“He came all around,” Mahmoud said of the person in the video “He broke everything. All the storefront.”
The person used patio furniture and parts of a lawn game to smash multiple windows.
Based on the video the owner shared, the whole incident lasted less than two minutes and caused thousands of dollars worth of damage.
“At least three days of what we do here,” Mahmoud said. “Net profit.”
The Dough Show opened back in March 2023, initially serving Egyptian food before expanding to Syrian and Turkish, too. The owner hopes the attack was random and not based on their background.
“With the video we saw, you cannot tell if it’s hate or not,” Mahmoud said.
He took video Friday showing the shattered windows, some with chairs still sticking through them. And glass littering the ground inside and outside his store.
“It was glass all the way all around,” Mahmoud said. “It takes us like five hours just to clean everything.”
But they were ready to open by 11 a.m. Friday.
According to an incident report from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, they processed multiple chairs for fingerprints with no results. By Monday night, the incident was still under investigation.
“He needs help. I believe this guy needs help,” Mahmoud said of the person responsible. He says he’d be the first to help them.
While deputies search for a suspect, the community has been supporting the Dough Show.
“I got calls from a hundred people, maybe half of them, I don’t know. They want to support,” Mahmoud said.
He described business Friday as “crazy busy.”
“If that happened to anyone, I would go and support too,” he said. “This is how the community is supposed to be, and this is the word of peace we need to spread around.”
