FAIRFIELD, CT — Fairfield Police responded to Crave Restaurant on Sanford Street on the report of two assaults that took place within hours of each other on Friday night, including one in which an employee is accused of punching a customer in the face, according to multiple reports.

The Fairfield Citizen reports Lainiker Vargas-Badilla, 23, of Norwalk, was arrested after allegedly punching the victim outside of the restaurant during an argument. Vargas-Badilla, a Crave employee, was carrying a tray of food when the victim, his wife and some friends "jokingly" tried to pick some food off the tray, according to the Citizen. (To sign up for Fairfield breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

Vargas-Badilla was accused of deliberately spilling the tray on the women, which he said was an accident, before the dispute moved outside of the restaurant, the Citizen reports.