Police say 29-year-old Montrel Amos told a clerk at the Circle K store that he had a gun before taking the food about 11 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say a witness described the car Amos used and police stopped and arrested him a short time later.
Police say they did not find a weapon but recovered the stolen items.
Amos is charged with robbery, possessing instruments of crime and retail theft.
Online court records do not list an attorney for him.
Information from: Erie Times-News, http://www.goerie.com