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Qdoba employee helps feed disabled customer in heartwarming video

By Samantha Jordan
May 14, 2015

A random act of kindness at a fast-food restaurant in Kentucky was caught on camera and has been melting hearts of viewers.

Qdoba employee Ridge Quarles took it upon himself to go above and beyond for a disabled customer who has become a regular at the restaurant on Hurstborne Parkway.

"Sadly enough, she has to sit outside the restaurant until someone notices her or another customer that's coming in has to let her into the building," Quarles told Wave 3 News. "By now, she's actually been in so many times that we know what she likes to eat."

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The woman was dropped off one day by a bus that helps people with disabilities. Quarles helped her as usual, getting her through the line, sitting her down at a table and getting her napkins and utensils. Then he asked if she needed anything else.

"She turned around and she was like, 'Sir, if you don't mind could you help me eat?'"

Quarles didn't hesitate. He put on a pair of gloves and held the woman's food as she took small bites. Another customer, Dr. David Jones, was touched by the moment and recorded the kind gesture on his cellphone.

"I said, I don't know, I think I'll just send it out to some of my friends and say, 'There's still some good people in the world,'" Jones said.

The video has since gone viral.

"It seems to me that if everybody in the world would just use the little simple gift that they have to maybe benefit somebody else ... think what the world would be like."

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