The burglar caused damage worth thousands of dollars by making holes in ceilings and drywalls in the restaurant. (Photo: Facebook/ E&L Barbeque)

Jackson County (US): A burglar broke into the E&L Barbeque restaurant in Jackson, Mississippi on Tuesday, and then bizarrely stopped to cook a dinner for himself.

According to a report in NDTV, the burglar arrived in style, coming in through the roof and crawling around the floor, but then helped himself to five sandwiches, fries and some soda.

"He helped himself to steak sandwiches, which he had to turn on the grill to cook; he cooked himself fries and got a bag full of sodas, ribs and steak sandwiches, which he couldn't manage to get back out through the ceiling, so he had to leave them anyway," the restaurant manager told a newspaper.

The burglary attempt, caught on the restaurant’s surveillance camera, went viral.

The restaurant posted a video grab of the man on Facebook with the hashtag "#worldsdumbest".

"This is not the model you want to follow if you want to successfully rob a business!" the post said.

The report said the burglar caused damage worth thousands of dollars by making holes in ceilings and drywalls in the restaurant.