Man beaten up at Little Caesars after calling woman overweight

Photo: John Storey, Special To The Chronicle A man was beaten up in a Salinas pizza restaurant after advising a...

An angry man roughed up a customer at a Little Caesars Pizza restaurant in Salinas for making a crack about his mom’s weight, police said.

The ruckus started at 4:25 p.m. Sunday when a 50-year-old man at the pizza joint inside a strip mall at 506 East Laurel Drive told a woman “she should not eat pizza because she was already overweight,” police Cmdr. Sheldon Bryant said.

The comment sent the woman into a rage. She went to her car to get a crow bar, but before she could get in any blows, her son punched the man several times in the head, police said.

The mom and son then took off. They were not identified or arrested.

Paramedics took the victim to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

Evan Sernoffsky is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky