A New York pizzeria owner has turned an upsetting encounter outside his restaurant into a simple message of kindness for people struggling to afford food. Daniel Romano, owner of D’Romano’s Pizza in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, noticed an elderly woman taking half a pizza from his restaurant’s rubbish bin. Instead of ignoring her, Romano approached her, removed the discarded slice and gave her a fresh one. The woman began crying, and Romano reassured her before she ate. The incident later prompted him to put a handwritten note in his restaurant window asking hungry people to come inside and tell him they needed food rather than searching through the rubbish.
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