Keeping Tom a secret
Marianna initially wanted to hide the fact that she employed a homeless man in the establishment. She couldn’t have imagined that would improve the cafe’s reputation, but she would soon learn that the exact opposite was true.
People recognized him immediately
The fact that Tom was actually homeless was discovered on the very first day he started working at the cafe. Considering that Tom had been living on the streets in the area for some time, it was unlikely that anyone who had lived here at the time had never seen him before.