While Lana Del Rey was serving customers at the Waffle House, David Letterman was packing groceries in Iowa

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Like Lana Del Rey’s obvious new job working as a waitress at the Alabama Waffle House, David Letterman also got a new job… sort of.

On Friday, the former “Late Night with David Letterman” host swung in front of a Hy-Vee grocery store in Iowa where he was seen wearing an apron and his own name tag in picture It was posted on the store’s Facebook page.

“You never know who you’ll run into while shopping the aisles at Hy-Vee,” the caption read.

in video Posted on Letterman’s Instagram page on Sunday, it saw him tell the store manager that he “spent a great deal of my life in a grocery store in Indianapolis, last single independent grocery store and I loved it.”

“If I could give something back to the marketing community, I’d love to do it — but I don’t have it every day, of course,” he joked.

In the video, Letterman is seen peering down the aisles of Hy-Vee, packing groceries, eating uncooked minestrone soup and telling customers on megaphone that “today and only today” celery was free.

It was Letterman It said In Des Moines over the weekend for the Hy-Vee IndyCar Race, Christian Lundgaard driving the #45 race car—which Letterman co-owns through his car Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Team —but he looked like he’d scored a quick Hy-Vee turnaround before the weekend festivities got underway.

While Letterman’s turnaround in the market appears to have been prompted by his racing team’s participation in the big race weekend, it remains unclear why Del Rey was involved. Alabama.

Last week, videos surfaced of the singer wearing a Waffle House outfit while on set serve customers From behind the counter it started spreading on social media.

She was reportedly recently spotted at a nail salon and Starbucks in the area, and was even seen in a parking lot autographing a fan’s namesake poster while dressed in her Waffle House outfit, as seen on video Posted on social media on Saturday.

CNN has reached out to the singer’s representative for comment.

Letterman and Del Rey aren’t the only famous faces who have surprised sponsors as unsuspecting employees in recent months.

Oscar-winning actor and director Ben Affleck worked a makeover at Dunkin’ earlier this year to shoot a funny movie commercial at Super Bowl LVII and Ariana Maddix from Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules registered A transformation in a car window at Southern California’s Raising Cane in May.