TIFU by eating my coworker’s sandwich

This technically happened yesterday, but reached a resolution today.

So, yesterday I walked into work a little before 10am. There was a DoorDash delivery from Starbucks sitting by the door addressed to the name Felix. It is important to note that there is nobody who works here by that name, but I work at a hair salon and assumed it was for someone’s client.

A little time goes by and one of my coworkers goes around asking if anyone had ordered door dash, and got a unanimous “No.”

A couple hours later, I see the sandwich from that order sitting on the table in the break room. There were three other people in there and I asked if we had ever figured out who it belonged to. They all said no and one of my coworkers (I’ll call her Jessica) said I was free to eat it if I’d like. It’s one of my favorite things from the Starbucks menu, so I jumped on the offer.

About an hour later I was chilling in the break room while my client’s color was processing. Another coworker of mine (I’ll call her Ivy) walked in, shuffles some things around on the table, then asked “where’s my sandwich?”

I froze. I wanted to speak up and tell her what happened but I just froze. The salon owner comes in and they start searching the break room, and EVEN THE TRASH to see if it had been thrown away by accident.
Thankfully at this point my timer went off to wash out my client’s color, so I slowly and quietly just backed out of the room. I know that was a bit immature, but seriously I was panicking.

This morning I get to work and two of my coworkers jokingly tell me that I’m in trouble. Jessica said she overheard Ivy talking about her missing sandwich and came clean about what happened. She told Ivy that it wasn’t my fault as I had been told I could have it and they both had a good laugh about it.

I texted Ivy today to apologize, both for eating her sandwich and for not coming clean in the moment. I told her it was 100% an accident and that I felt like an asshole in that moment and just panicked. I asked her to send me her Starbucks order so that I could pick some up for her the next time we work together.

She responded that she wasn’t mad at all, it was just a misunderstanding and I was sweet for offering. She said not to worry about buying her Starbucks, but I could bring her a redbull one day if I feel so inclined.

ETA: the food was delivered before Ivy got to work (I assume the guy she’s seeing ordered it for her) and she arrived after my coworker had asked who it belonged to. She was unaware that we had looked for the owner, and everyone else was unaware that it was hers

Tl;dr: a miscommunication led to me eating my coworker’s lunch and I fled the scene in a panic when I realized my mistake. Everyone has talked, no one is mad, and we’ve all had a good laugh