Restaurant owner leaves a note for the person rummaging through her trash for food

An Oklahoma restaurant is welcoming someone that many other restaurants might turn away.

Ashley Jiron, owner if P.B. Jams in Warr Acres, noticed that someone was going through her trash and sifting through discarded food containers.

“Last week, I had noticed some bags, when I had taken out the trash, were torn open and some of the food was taken out,” Jiron said to KFOR News.

The fact that somebody so hungry would resort to eating from her trash had an incredibly profound effect on her, so she decided to reach out to the person – a person that she had no clue as to their identity.

From KFOR:

So she put a sign on the dumpster and at the front door, telling whomever was eating from her trash that they’re “a human being, and worth more than a meal from a dumpster.”

The sign goes on to say the person is welcome to come in to the sandwich shop for a meal, free of charge.

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Photo credit: IJReview

“I will not take down that sign until they come in,” she said.

“I think we’ve all been in that position where we needed someone’s help and we just needed someone to extend that hand, and if I can be that one person to extend that hand to another human being then I will definitely do it.”

Watch KFOR’s report in the video below:

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