They suspect the cases are linked because all involve a man with a sawed-off shotgun who is about 5 feet 9 and wears dark clothing.
The crooks struck first on July 10, at the Just in Time Furniture Distributors, on Frankford Avenue near Sedgley.
The men sneaked into the East Frankford warehouse through an unlocked door about 4:20 p.m. and terrorized two employees, said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore.
The employees were forced to lie on the ground. One of the crooks, dressed in dark clothing, fired a shotgun at boxes to intimidate the employees, Vanore said.
The crooks made off with about $7,000. The employees were left unharmed in a locked storage locker, Vanore said.
About 5 a.m. Sunday, one man - possibly from the same band of crooks - jumped through the drive-through window of a Burger King on Cottman Avenue near Algon in Rhawnhurst, Vanore said.
The shotgun-toting man ordered employees to get on the ground and give him cash. It was unclear how much money he took.
On Thursday, surveillance footage showed three suspects barging into a Pizza Hut on Castor Avenue near Wyoming in Juniata, Vanore said.
The bandits - one armed with a shotgun, another with a silver handgun - vaulted a counter and "took over the place" while stealing an unknown amount of cash, Vanore said.
Last night, investigators were trying to determine if the same three bandits struck a check-cashing store at 47th and Spruce streets in West Philadelphia.
A man walked into the business about 4:30 p.m., pretending to be a UPS delivery man, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
Moments later, his two gun-toting cohorts barged in and robbed the business. The three men fled with surveillance tapes from the business, Walker said. *
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