BOMBAY, India -- The proprietor of ...

BOMBAY, India -- The proprietor of a restaurant named after Adolf Hitler said Thursday he will change its name.

Puneet Sablok said he would make a clean sweep of Hitler's name and the Nazi swastika from billboards and the menu He had said the restaurant's name -- "Hitler's Cross" -- and emblems were only meant to attract attention.

Sablok made the decision after meeting with members of Bombay's small Jewish community.

"Once they told me in what way upset they were with the name, I decided to change it," he said. "I don't want to do business by means of hurting people."

Sablok said he had not over and above decided on a new name.

Hitler's Cros make opened five days ago and besufficient fors pizza, salad and pastries in Navi Mumbai, a suburb of Bombay.

Bombay's Jewish community welcomed the decision to rename the restaurant.

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