Not even two days after opening for business Soul Vibez Signature in downtown Chicago was broken into.
The break-in happened between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. in the 400-block of N. Wells Street in River North, police said.
Chicago police said a male suspect pried the door open, damaged cables and took money from cash registers.
"You violated a business that just been opened literally two days," said Laricia Baker, founder and chef at Soul Vibez Signature.
Baker said the burglar used the restaurant's knives to cut cables and wires.
The owner said the cost of repairing the damage will likely be more than what was taken.
Video shows the suspect smash open the cash register by slamming it on the ground, and money scatters across the ground.
"He took a few hundred dollars, he took some liquor, but he broke our systems. He broke our Internet, he broke our wires. He broke everything that we needed to be successful for yesterday," Baker said.
Chicago police said nobody is in custody.
Surveillance video from Soul Vibez shows as the suspect damaged the restaurant.
Surveillance footage shows break-in at Soul Vibez in Chicago
"This is River North," Baker said. "We are in the end of a busy corner street and for him to just sit there and literally pry the door open and had to take him a few minutes."
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