Breakfast Blessings · Once a Month

Pull up a chair. Bless a server.

Once a month a long table of friends sits down for breakfast in St. Pete or Gainesville. We eat, we laugh, everyone pays their own check — and then a basket goes around for the person who kept our coffee full.

St. Petersburg Monday, Nov 16 · 8:30 AM RSVP for St. Pete Gainesville Tuesday, Nov 17 · 8:30 AM RSVP for Gainesville

The restaurant is shared only with people who RSVP — so nobody, including us, knows ahead of time who our server will be.

A big Breakfast Blessings group smiling around a long table in a sunny St. Pete diner
Breakfast Blessings badge — Good People, Good Conversation, Generous Giving. Leave a big tip, make a big difference.
How It Works

Everyone covers their own breakfast. Together, we cover the tip.

No agenda. It’s not a pitch meeting or a sales breakfast. Bring a friend, bring a business card if you like — mostly bring an appetite.

No planning the outcome. Someone else picks the restaurant, and we never choose the server. Whoever we’re given is who we bless.

It’s a we, not an I. One person can’t change a server’s month. A basket full of twenties can.

Guest checkTable: everyone

Breakfast Blessings

  1. 1 × RSVPfree
    Sign up for your city so we can text you the location.
  2. 1 × Breakfastyour own tab
    Order whatever you like — everyone pays for themselves.
  3. 1 × The basket$20+ each
    When plates are cleared, the basket goes around the table.
  4. 1 × Our serverchosen for us
    The whole basket goes to whoever waited on us that morning.
TipLife-changing

Thank you · see you next month

Why It Matters

We never know their story until the basket lands.

Her husband had lost his job that morning, and rent was due.

The basket covered the rest of the rent and groceries for the kids — and bought the family a little time.

A single mom couldn’t finish paying for the flowers at her daughter’s wedding.

A few hundred dollars from a table of strangers, and the flowers were paid for.

A grandmother was picking up extra shifts to buy a birthday present.

That morning she left with enough to buy it, without the extra shifts.

$1,000

The goal: one server, one $1,000 tip. Our biggest basket so far came in just under $500. Every chair at the table moves it closer.

At the Table

Good people. Good conversation. Generous giving.

Breakfast Blessings group around a long wooden table under pendant lights
A packed table at a deli and breakfast house with a neon sign behind the group
The Gainesville Breakfast Blessings table under a painted Gainesville, FL wall mural
Friends smiling around a breakfast table beside a beach mural
A long breakfast table with a white tile wall and greenery
Three friends laughing over coffee at the end of a long breakfast table
A cozy diner booth packed with Breakfast Blessings friends mid-laugh

Mornings from St. Pete and Gainesville since January. Tap a photo to see the whole table.

Why We Do It

It doesn’t have to be an I. It could be a we.

— Tina Yakel, RN, founder of Salty Fluids

Tina started Breakfast Blessings in January, in a hard season of her own, when she couldn’t give the way she wanted to — not to her kids, her family, or her community. So she called her friends instead.

They showed up, and they keep showing up, every month. Tina doesn’t pick the restaurant and nobody picks the server. As she puts it, it’s completely God-inspired: whoever we get is who gets blessed.

Your seat’s saved.

Bring twenty dollars and an appetite. We’ll text you where to go.

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Questions? Call Tina at (352) 213-1084