A Spokane family-owned restaurant is dealing with a small business’ worst nightmare. Mossuto’s Italian Restaurant in North Spokane was broken into last month, with the thief taking thousands of dollars.

“I put so much trust in my employees and the community and everything like that, that you never think that it’s going to happen until it happens,” Tony Poole said. Poole and his family opened Mossuto’s on Black Friday in 2021.