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Retired Officer of Florida Laws who once exposed bombs now bakeing treats and ground coffee for customers.
Chris Smith, 56, and his wife, opened Ground Ops Roastery + Bakehouse at Tallahassea, Florida, November 2023.
Previously, Smith was Deputy Sheriff’s Leon County Office, working as a member of the Swat team and then on a bomb team.
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He retired a few months before the opening ceremony – but it seemed that the drastic change of career was known than it might seem.
“Everything goes back to the service of people and be there for the community,” Smith told Fox News Digital. (Watch the video at the top of this article.)
Chris Smith worked with a swat team and a Bomb team at the Leon Sheriff’s Office in Tallahassea, Florida. He is now the owner of the company, bakes treats and grinding coffee for his customers. (Shannon Smith)
“Open OPA was just another way to provide a community service.”
The service was most of its adult life at the helm of Smith’s work.
Spent four years in American Navy Before attending Florida State University on the GI account. He became a deputy in 2010, and worked as a voluntary firefighter.
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But his wife, Shannon Smith, said that one of her biggest achievements was on her husband on the day she met him in 2021.
“In fact, he came in to speak some sense My adopted sonwho had problems at school, “Shannon told Fox News Digital.
Smith spoke with the adopted son of this then wife, she still appreciates, she still appreciates, she said. (Shannon Smith)
At the time, Shannon Smith was a single mother. A friend recommended that Chris Smith visit them.
Before talking to a young son, Smith appeared and introduced her a paper plate of food covered with foil.
“Then I ate this thing [in the foil]And it was amazing, “Shannon said.” I’ve never had anything like it before. “
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A few days later, Smith sent her a text that made banana pudding For a bomb team – and he asked if he could bring them.
“I knew at that moment,” Shannon Smith said. The couple got married a year later.
As for the treat that Smith brought her the day they met, it turned out to be future menu item on the soil of the ops.
On the left, Peciva gave Chris Smith to his then future wife on the day they met. That dough eventually became Hello Cake, on the right, on the menu on Ground Ops in Florida. (Shannon Smith)
Smith had no name for that at the time, but Hello Cake became “one of our most popular items because we welcomed,” said Shannon Smith.
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Ground ops are both Bakery and a cafe that divides the love of Earth.
Many of his popular baking have patriotic names, such as the Bravo Zulua connection with chocolate and a cafe; Commander of the choice of hazelnuts with a touch of fruit; Espresso mixture of depth charging; Missing in action because of its own without caffeine; and war horses of the south mixture of bakery.
“We have very well – and customers love it.”
“Many Latte names follow the army,” Smith said.
“So we have a roger that we have a bunker buster and others. We have very well – and customers love it.”
Inside Ground Ops is also a framed photo of Smith’s cousin, Shannon Kent, a naval cryptologist who was killed in the 2019 suicide bomb attack.
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Her husband Joe Kent was recently appointed Director of the National Center for Anti -Terrorism.
All foods are baked from zero, from pastries and pops to cookies and cakes. Smith does not have a culinary background, so he relies on Family recipes and a lot of attempts and mistakes.
Smith has found a new career in the coffee world and baking. (Shannon Smith)
“I love food and I like to sample food,” Smith said. “I love Traveling for foodAnd I like to try to recreate what I ate. And I eat like I’m a seven -year -old, as my wife says. “
Shannon Smith said her husband “saved a lot” and slowly started buying the equipment she would store because he “had an idea in his heart” one day opening his place.
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His work requires a lot of sacrifice and comes with the challenges, she said.
“It’s hard to take a job,” she said. “I mean, the implementation of the law is difficult, but running a job is a different kind.”
This includes waking up before sunrise every day.
Chris Smith and Shannon Smith fell in love when he was still a deputy. “The implementation of the law is difficult, but running a job is a different kind.” (Shannon Smith)
“I would have to say that getting up early in the morning to bake a lot harder than you have to go to take care of bombs,” Smith said.
“But I miss the guys.”
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Smith completely withdrew from his life in the implementation of the law, it turns out.
“He returned to the reserves – because one cannot help,” his wife said.
