Two San Francisco women are recovering today after separate assaults at local food sales establishments left them shaken and injured.
The first food-related attack went down at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday evening, when a 28-year-old woman leaving a pizza parlor near Ninth Avenue and Irving Street was punched in the face by a stranger.
The Chron reports that the suspect, described only as a man in his 50s, grabbed a slice of pizza from his victim's hands before he struck her, then "took a bite of the pizza and walked away."
The victim experienced some facial swelling, but didn't require hospitalization. The thief remains at large.
Then at around 10 p.m., a man in his early to mid 20s shoved a woman down the stairs at the Whole Foods Market on 2001 Market Street, KRON4 reports.
"The woman was walking toward a set of stairs when the man ran up behind her and shoved her down them," KRON reports, a fall that broke her collarbone.
As with the case of the pizza puncher, the woman did not know her assailant, police say. Whole Foods Market spokesperson Beth Krauss confirmed the assault, and told KRON that "the company is cooperating with the police investigation."