Daydreamers Cafe and Grill in Safety Harbor

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Good day, Tampa Bay.
Happy Wednesday to you and happy.
Veterans Day. We salute you, all veterans out there.
And they're saluting you here in Safety Harbor,
Main Street, 7th Avenue North.
You'll find Daydreamers Cafe and Grill.
And until 10.30, about another hour, come by for a free breakfast.
No strings attached at all. Free breakfast for veterans.
First responders as well are included in that.
The gentleman very subtly dressed over there, that is Chris.
He owns Daydreamers, originally from London, England,
but has such a passion for this country.
This has become the seventh annual.
This is our seventh annual Veterans Day promotion.
And you just love America and you love
Florida and you love Safety Harbor.
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Well, thanks to some of that Safety Harbor part.
We got a mayor right here.
Joe Ayoub is here, mayor of Safety Harbor.
Happy Veterans Day to you, sir.
And I know it starts here, but anybody's gonna move down
to Veterans Memorial Park down near
the marina for a celebration later this morning.
Right?
Yeah.
So Chris is generous enough
to open up his restaurant, bring the community together,
give free.
Meals to the veterans and I get the volunteers out here.
So we're very, very thankful for that as a community.
Then at 11 a.m., we have a Veterans Day ceremony down
at Veterans Park near the marina.
So looking forward to that, too.
Just another way to honor the sacrifices
of the veterans and their spouses.
Absolutely. It's important.
The whole the whole family is involved with that service
and takes on different stresses.
I'm glad you pointed that out. So 11 o'clock.
Down by the marina and a big fun celebration of our veterans.
Yeah, exactly. Nice.
The spouse thing was brought up to me
by a person inside. They said, hey,
don't forget to talk about the spouses.
I said, you know what? You're absolutely right. I never
talked about the spouses. And listen, it's wives and it's husbands.
It's wives, it's husbands. It's the kids and yes, the sacrifice
they go through. Yeah, we see that at MacDill.
Anytime we're out there, you're reminded when
there's an entire city out there of children
and families and they're all
Oh,
I mean, we're worried at night
when they don't know where the service member might be.
So, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up, Mayor.
Thank you.
Anything else you want to say before I take
the live microphone away from you?
I think just happy Veterans Day, everyone.
There you go.
Have a great day.
Good, good.
You never know with these politicians.
Thank you for doing that.
Give me ten more minutes.
Oh, my goodness.
And Carol is here.
Now, normally the tradition, Carol, is Safety Harbor Elementary School.
We normally see your choir or chorus out here singing patriotic songs.
They are coming, but there's no school today.
We let them sleep in a little bit.
They're gonna be down here in what, about 15, 20 minutes?
They'll be here in about 15, 20 minutes,
and they're gonna sing a few songs
in honor of our veterans.
Very nice, so if you are nearby,
you should get down here right away
so you can enjoy the kids singing.
And if you're a veteran, certainly come down here
and get your breakfast.
And if you're not a veteran,
but you just wanna come down here
and say thank you to a veteran, you can do that too.
Breakfast will cost you 10 bucks,
but you can still do that as well.
So there you go everybody, Veterans Day,
happy Veterans Day to you all out there.
And thank you Chris for what you did again
this year, we'll see you next year.
And thank you all veterans here, thank you,
thank you, appreciate it, enjoy your breakfast,
enjoy your day.
Good day Tampa Bay, we'll be right back.
