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HUDSON, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio restaurant owner who's missing months of work after undergoing a kidney transplant says dozens of his regular customers are pitching in to keep his pizza place running.
Farinacci Pizza owner Dave Janotka has chronic kidney failure and tells WEWS-TV (http://bit.ly/1KCUPJN ) that about 60 regulars are taking customer orders, washing dishes and cleaning the dining room of his Hudson restaurant. He says he feels 95 percent healed, but he can't start working again until next year.
Janotka's kidneys started failing him about two years ago and he had a kidney transplant in August.
Customer Joann Hayes says she wanted to help Janotka in any way she could. She says that, if nothing else, she could wash dishes.
Janotka says the customers are treating him like family.
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