(CNN) The routine fast-food transactions at a Syracuse, New York, drive-through are a lot warmer these days. Taco Bell customers are getting hand-written notes along with their burritos and gorditas, simply because one worker there, Kelly Stewart, is tired of hearing about bad news in the world.

For the past month and a half of this harsh winter, the 27-year-old has been writing inspirational messages. She hands the notes out with customer meals at the drive-thru and the front counter.

"We have to pass out these surveys and there's a blank space on the back. So I figured -- just write a little something," the single mom told CNN.

She's given out more than a hundred so far.

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