Staff and customers at a Florida restaurant were surprised by an uninvited guest Monday afternoon when a gator was spotted just a few feet away from the front door.

A bartender at Hudson's on the River in Stuart, Florida, first saw the gator on the rocks near the tiki bar on the side of the restaurant.

The bartender quickly informed assistant general manager Sarah Felten, who initially thought she was kidding.

"She said, ‘What's our policy on alligators at the tiki?’” Felten said. “And I thought she was joking, so I kind of laughed and was just like, ‘They've got to be over 21.’ And she said, ‘No, there's an alligator at tiki.”

Felten and operations manager Ben Foster went to check it out and saw the gator.

“He was just very docile,” Felten said.

"He was definitely not being aggressi

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