After the 27-year-old finished his lunch, he returned to his car and attempted to drive away when he backed his SUV into a pole. Frustrated, he proceeded forward -- right through the front entrance of the Garrison Road family restaurant.

"He came straight through the front doors and took doors out. The entire SUV was in the dining room," said manager Pat Robinson.

Robinson, who was at the back of the restaurant when the incident happened, said a waitress had just finished clearing a table where the SUV came to rest.

"She had just walked away with the dirty dishes. A few seconds before and she would have been in the hospital. It's a miracle no one got hurt," she said. "It looked like World War Three hit the dining room. There was glass all the way to the back of the restaurant."

Robinson said the crash sounded like a huge bag of ice being emptied into an aluminum sink.

"It was loud," she said.

Niagara Regional Police Const. Jacquie Forgeron said the driver attempted to maneuver out of his parking spot when he hit the post.

"Then, perhaps through driver error, he over corrected and went though the building," she said.

Alcohol was not a factor, she said.

No one was injured but one of the two female passengers was taken to hospital as a precaution, said Forgeron.

Robinson said the woman in the front passenger seat was the driver's wife who is six months pregnant.

General manager Cal Kopinak pegged damage at upwards of $75,000 plus $20,000 worth of lost sales, since Fridays and Saturdays are the restaurant's two busiest days. He said after the crash food had to be thrown out and the restaurant didn't re-open until Tuesday.