Restaurant owner 'put everybody else first'

CHAMPAIGN – It didn't matter what day of the week it was, Betty Buttitta was there at the front to welcome you into Dom's Patio Villa.

So the experience won't be the same for regular Bob Swisher of Urbana, who usually orders Breast of Chicken a la Dom in the restaurant started by the late Dominic Buttitta.

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