Around 1 a.m., after the store had closed, the man came out of the bathroom wearing a mask, pulled a semiautomatic handgun, forced two of the three workers into the freezer and directed the third worker to open the safe, the police said.
Mr. Taylor and an accomplice, Craig Godineaux, had forced seven people into a walk-in freezer; bound and gagged the workers, and forced them to kneel before shooting each in the head.
Busy office workers hit the freezer case for take-home meals.
The suspect took an undisclosed amount of cash and told ordered workers into a freezer, the Pleasanton Police Department said.
Sub-Zero, the freezer and refrigerator manufacturer, told workers last year that factories in Wisconsin would have to be shut down, with 500 employees losing their jobs, unless staff took a 20percentt pay cut, The New York Times reported.
A McDonald's manager in the Bay Area was arrested on suspicion of using a gun to rob his own restaurant and another one and ordering workers into the freezer in both incidents, police said Tuesday.
Sub-Zero, which makes refrigerators, freezers and ovens, warned its workers last month that it might close one or more factories in Wisconsin and lay off 500 employees unless they accepted a 20 percent cut in wages and benefits.
At 20 degrees below zero, the thing turns so slowly that you are better off having workers jog through the freezer with shopping carts pulling items off shelves.
Lunch supplies for float workers that were stored in the freezer, including hot dogs, chips and soda, were also missing, Neilson said.
The announcement came days after President Rodrigo Duterte responded angrily to reports that a Filipino domestic worker had been found in a freezer in the gulf state.
