A 22-year-old Nova Scotia man has gotten himself into "double-double trouble" after breaking into a Tim Hortons with a late-night caffeine craving over the weekend, says the RCMP.

Police arrested the man after what the RCMP call "an unusual early morning break and enter" Sunday at the Tim Hortons in Parrsboro, which is located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.

Two employees who had arrived for work at the coffee shop at about 4 a.m. called police after stumbling upon the man inside. He had already made himself a hot coffee, and was then working on making himself an iced cappuccino, police said.

"They were simply surprised that this individual was there, in the store," Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson Const. Mark Skinner said Wednesday.

"He had been making a coffee, and was trying to make an Ice-Cap at the time," he said, "but unfortunately had been creating a rather large mess."

The man left the Tim Hortons before officers with Cumberland County RCMP had arrived to investigate, but police officers found him soon after in the nearby parking lot of a local grocery store, where they arrested the suspect.

"He took off, but certainly it wasn't took long before we caught up with him," Skinner said, adding police do believe "alcohol may have been involved" in this particular case.

The suspect from Conquerall Mills faces charges of break and enter and mischief, police said. He has been released from police custody and will appear in Amherst provincial court on the morning of Dec. 14.

"No money taken, just looking for something to drink," Skinner said, adding Timmy's opened in time to serve customers on their morning commutes.

"No employees or doughnuts were harmed during the break and enter," police said.