A Gallatin cafe's customers get their breakfasts paid for
WSMV's Surprise Squad covered the checks at Cafe 393 in Gallatin, where co-owner Tanya McPherson has spent nine years serving free Thanksgiving meals and stocking teachers' classrooms.
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Customers at Cafe 393 in Gallatin sat down to breakfasts that were already paid for, WSMV reported. The station's Surprise Squad covered the checks as a thanks to co-owner Tanya McPherson, who has spent nine years serving free Thanksgiving meals and stocking teachers' classrooms.
The paid breakfasts were one morning. The nine years are the work the surprise was pointing at. The report is that cafe and that visit, not a promise that every check in town was picked up.
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Cafe 393 is in Gallatin, Tennessee. Co-owner Tanya McPherson has spent nine years doing two extra things: serving free Thanksgiving meals and filling teachers' classrooms with supplies. A television surprise crew showed up and paid for the customers' breakfasts, a thank-you aimed at her. The customers did not have to pay that morning. The longer story is the nine years of meals and classroom help that came first. One breakfast tab is a single morning. Nine years is the habit the surprise was answering.
- Why might paying someone's bill be a way to say thank you?
- What does a classroom need that a neighbor could help gather?
- Who in your town does quiet work that people forget to notice?
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