This is the disturbing moment a massive rat with a doughnut in its mouth jumped across a Krispy Kreme car park.

Mortified customer Emma Higham said it looked 'like something straight out of Ratatouille.'

The 24-year-old hospital worker was so shocked she could no longer eat her snack from the drive-thru in Trafford, Greater Manchester.

Shocking: A massive rat with a doughnut in its mouth jumped across a Krispy Kreme car park in Trafford, Greater Manchester

A video taken on her mobile phone shows the furry pest running under a Krispy Kreme bin and then leaping across the car park with the snack in its jaws.

Ms Higham, who was parked up eating a doughnut and milkshake at the time, said: 'It had to jump because the doughnut was that big.

'It was disgusting - totally disturbing. The rat was massive.

'I gave my partner my doughnut because it was hanging. It put me off my food completely.'

Ms Higham and partner Chad Berrisford, 26, from Oldham, had been through the drive-thru and stopped in the car park to eat when they spotted the rat on Sunday.

They claim the rat jumped in and out of the bin at the side of the store before scurrying under the van to eat the snack.

At one point a seagull swooped down to get in on the action. The rodent scarpered but later returned to finish its meal.

Mortifying: Customer Emma Higham was put off her food after seeing the rodent

Fearless: The rat scurrioed out from under a bin then leapt across the car park with the snack in its jaws

'It was straight in the bin and then trying to find somewhere to eat it,' said Ms Higham.

'The way it did it, it must have done it before. It was like something straight out of Ratatouille. I won't be eating there again.'

The couple have made a formal complaint to Krispy Kreme.

A spokesman said: 'We take our food hygiene very seriously and immediately called in pest control who gave the premises the all clear. In addition, we are also conducting our own investigation into the matter.

Mortified customer Emma Higham said it looked 'like something straight out of Ratatouille'

'Krispy Kreme has an exemplary food safety record and we endeavour to take care at all stages of our food production process to ensure that products are produced in a hygienic and safe manner.'

Resourceful and industrious, rats are known to source human food and smuggle it away to their friends.