An Ohio woman has been sentenced to a month in jail and must work at a fast food restaurant for two months after assaulting a Chipotle worker.
Rosemary Hayne was caught on video throwing food in employee Emily Russell’s face on Sept. 5 at a Parma, Ohio Chipotle location, CNN reported.
Hayne, 39, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge and was sentenced to 180 days in jail by Parma Municipal Court Judge Timothy Gilligan at a hearing last week, according to media reports.
Gilligan then gave Hayne the option to instead spend 30 days in jail and serve the remainder of his sentence, 60 days, at a fast food restaurant, local news outlet FOX8 News reported. He must work at least 20 hours a week at any fast food restaurant where he finds work.
At sentencing, the judge asked Hayne if he wanted to “go in [Russell’s] shoes for two months and learn how people should treat people or do you want to do jail time?” CBS reported.
Hayne replied, “I would love to walk in her shoes.”
CNN reported that as of Wednesday, she had not yet found a fast food job, according to her attorney.
Gilligan also said during last week’s hearing, according to FOX8, “You didn’t get the burrito bowl you like and you responded like this? This is not The Real Housewives of Parma. This behavior is not acceptable.”
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Russell, 26, had worked at Chipotle for more than four years at the time of the incident, she told CBS, but quit a month after the attack because of the chain’s lack of support.
She said Chipotle never contacted her after Hayne’s attack, and said she had to work the remaining four hours of her shift on Sept. 5 after Hayne threw food in her face.
She told the paper that she was “relieved” by Hayne’s sentence, and of the request to work in fast food, she said: “I was saying she was happy to work 20 hours [a] week — I worked 65 hours a week.”
Russell added of the incident: “She said she was having a bad day, but that’s not the way you react when you’re having a bad day – to throw food in someone’s face.”
In a statement to PEOPLE, Laurie Schalow, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for Chipotle, said: “The health and safety of our employees is our highest priority and we are pleased to see justice served for any individual who does not treat our team members with the respect they deserve.”
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