Footage has been captured showing staff in a McDonald's branch in Croydon chasing a rat out of the restaurant.

The video shows the employees using brooms to usher the rodent out of the branch.

The rat is said to have scampered through the door of the McDonald's on Church Street on Friday morning.

Two members of staff guided the rodent with their brooms and a spokesperson said it left

The footage, which has been shared on social media, shows the rodent scampering around the restaurant before staff were able to chase the rat out of the restaurant, according to a spokesman for the fast food chain.

He added that pest control experts were called in straight away to ensure no other rodents were in the store.

'Hygiene and cleanliness is of utmost importance to us,' he said.

Three members of staff took on the project of ejecting the rogue rodent from the restaurant

'A rodent made a well-timed run through the front door but our staff reacted quickly to make sure the visit was a very brief one and ushered it out of the restaurant, unharmed.

'We immediately asked pest control experts to carry out a check of the restaurant, with further checks [also taking place] in recent days.

'All of these checks have confirmed no evidence of pest activity and we are confident that this is an isolated incident.'