LANCASTER (AP) - Former reality star Jon Gosselin has shown up at a popular restaurant chain, not as a diner but as one of its cooks.

Gosselin, formerly of TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8," says he recently worked for over a month as a cook at a

T.G.I. Friday's in Pennsylvania.The restaurant in Lancaster is about a half hour from the hospital where his then-wife, Kate Gosselin, gave birth to sextuplets in 2004.The 39-year-old Gosselin told Dallas radio talk show hosts Kannon and Sybil on Wednesday that he worked at the restaurant to help a friend and because he loves to cook. He said his paychecks went to charity.The restaurant's manager told the New York Post that Gosselin had been working for him a few days a week.