shelters are all full of cats and kittens across the area right now
how close are they to the restaurant? Would the person walking by foot have to have a vehicle to get the kitten to a shelter? Perhaps they haven’t transport. Perhaps they have a disability. Perhaps many reasons they can’t get to a shelter. If the shelter is right beside the restaurant, then yeah, the person wasn’t thinking. If not, they were probably trying to get kitten safe immediately especially if it’s wet and the restaurant could be the closest warm building to where the kitten was found. Not ideal but it is a possible scenario.
I’m glad either way the end result was she found a new home. Just hopefully we don’t have to assume malice is around every corner with other fellow humans.
Trump gets weirder every day