VIRGINIA BEACH (WAVY) — It’s the fast food restaurant where Shannon Woodruff grew up eating, visits often and even works as a DoorDash driver.

But the McDonald’s on Birdneck Road just off the interstate is also where she said she broke a tooth biting into a breakfast sandwich.

McDonald’s ran its “You deserve a break today” ad campaign in the 1970s. This is not what they had in mind.

This is not a case of someone trying to get rich. Woodruff said she just wants to be compensated for the money she has spent at the dentist’s office, and could spend there in the future on any necessary follow-up care.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I think my tooth is broke,” Woodruff said in a Monday morning interview. She was inside the restaurant and had just bitten into her sausage biscuit back on March 5 while she was talking with an employee.

“I spit some out in the napkin, and [the employee] looked at me,” Woodruff said. “She was holding a broom, and her eyes [opened wide] because she saw what happened.”

Woodruff wasn’t lovin’ it, and went to the manager.

“I was telling her what had happened, and another piece of my tooth started crumbling,” Woodruff said. “They wanted to keep my biscuit. And I told them that’s my only proof. You’re confiscating my evidence.”

She shifted from fast food to fast dental care.

“I went straight to my dentist,” Woodruff said. “He gave me a temporary crown that day. I went back in a week or two later for the permanent crown.”

At more than $900 out of pocket, it’s taking a bite out of her bank account.

Woodruff had seen her dentist just two weeks earlier. So her dentist sent McDonald’s a message that the tooth was healthy, and confirmed that she needed the crown after biting into her bad biscuit.

She believes the unwanted ingredient was “a piece of bone or piece of gristle.”

Woodruff showed us the envelope where she writes down every time she phones or emails McDonald’s, and keeps what’s left of her lower left molar.

She has connected with an insurance representative for McDonald’s, which emailed that she’s waiting to see in-store surveillance video. Woodruff is a regular customer — she does DoorDash for the restaurant — and wants to continue to do both.

“I just want compensation,” she said. “I don’t want to be the next million dollar coffee man.”

WAVY has reached out to McDonald’s, and the company acknowledged our inquiry. We’ll update this story with further developments.