San Antonio based Whataburger is responding to a viral video making the rounds on Facebook showing a mouse running around the kitchen area behind the counter of a restaurant in Bastrop.
A customer who was waiting for food to be prepared took the video, which shows the mouse running along the stainless steel counter of the food preparation area.
A Whataburger employee assures customers in the video that they will get their money back.
Then, as an employee tries to catch the mouse, it jumps into the deep fat fryer. Employees react with shock and screams, and one man yells "it's fried, man!"
One commenter on Facebook writes, 'this is what happens when a Chicago bank buys Whataburger,' a reference to the company's recent purchase by Chicago based BDT Capital Partners.
In a statement, Whataburger said: "We closed the restaurant out of an abundance of caution and notified pest control. The entire restaurant has since been cleaned and sanitized."