The veteran of the Navy, the former Florida deputy finds coffee, family and a new way of serving

A retired Florida law enforcement officer who once defused the bombs is now cooking and grind coffee for customers.

Chris Smith, 56, and his wife opened Ground Ops Roother + Bakehouse in Tallahassee, Florida, in November 2023.

Before doing it, Smith was a deputy at the Sheriff’s Sheriff office, working as a member of the Swat team and then with the bomb team.

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He retired a few months before the great opening, but what seemed to be a drastic change of career was more familiar than he could seem.

“Everything returns to serve people and to be there for the community,” Fox News Digital told Fox News. (See the video on top of this article.)

Chris Smith worked with the Swat team and the bomb team at the Sheriff’s Sheriff’s Office of Leon in Tallahassee, Florida. He is now an entrepreneur, preparing the delicacies and grinding coffee for his customers. (Shannon Smith)

“The opening of land operations was only another way to provide a service to the community.”

The service was at the forefront of Smith’s work for most of his adult life.

He spent four years in The United States Navy Before attending the Florida State University on the GI invoice. He became a deputy in 2010 and also worked as a voluntary firefighter.

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But his wife, Shannon Smith, said that one of his husband’s greatest successes was the day he met him in 2021.

“Actually a little sense came to speak My adopted sonHe had put himself in trouble at school, “Shannon said to Fox News Digital.

Smith, on the right, has held a speech to the adopted son of this wife then future years several years ago that still appreciates today, he said. (Shannon Smith)

At the time, Shannon Smith was a single mother. A friend recommended Chris Smith to pay a visit.

Before talking to the young son, Smith presented himself and presented her a Food paper plate covered with sheet.

“Then I ate this thing (in the sheet), and it was fantastic,” said Shannon. “I’ve never had anything like this before.”

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A few days later, Smith sent her a message he was doing banana pudding For the bomb team – and asked him if he could bring them a little.

“At that point I knew it,” said Shannon Smith. The couple got married a year later.

As for the treatment that Smith brought to her the day they met, it turned out to be A future menu item On the ground.

On the left, Chris Smith’s baked goods gave his wife then Futura the day they met. That pastry shop eventually became the Hello cake on the right, on the ground menu in Florida. (Shannon Smith)

Then Smith did not have a name, but the Hello cake became “one of our most popular objects because that’s how we greeted,” said Shannon Smith.

Love for the family, country

Land operations are both an oven And a cafeteria that shares love for the country.

Many of its popular roasts have patriotic names, as Bravo Zulu merge with chocolate and caramel; Commander’s Choice hazelnut flavor with a touch of fruit; Mixture by espresso of the deeper charge; Missing in action for his decaffeinated beer; And southern pecan mixture of the war horse.

“We have a lot of fun – and they love it.”

“Many milk names also follow the military,” Smith said.

“So, we have the Roger who, we have the Buster bunker and others. We have a lot of fun – and they love it.”

Inside Ground Ops is also a framed photography of Smith’s cousin, Shannon Kent, a marina cryptologist who was killed in a 2019 suicide bomb attack in Syria.

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Her husband, Joe Kent, has recently been appointed director of the National Coonterrorism Center.

All the food is cooked from scratch every day, from rolls and popers to biscuits and cakes. Smith does not have a culinary background, therefore it rewards Family recipes And a lot of test and error.

Smith has found a new career in coffee and cooking worlds. (Shannon Smith)

“I love food and I love to sample food,” said Smith. “I love Traveling for foodAnd I like to try to recreate what I ate. And I eat as if I were also a 7 -year -old boy, as my wife says. “

Shannon Smith said that her husband “saved a lot” and slowly started buying equipment he would store because “he had the idea in his heart” to open his place one day.

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His work requires a lot of sacrifice and comes with challenges, he said.

“Managing a company is difficult,” he said. “I mean, the police are difficult, but managing a company is a different type of difficult.”

This includes awakening before dawn every day.

Chris Smith and Shannon Smith fell in love when he was still a deputy. “Law enforcement officers are difficult, but managing a company is a different type of hard.” (Shannon Smith)

“I should say that getting up early to cook in the morning is much more difficult than having to take care of the bombs,” said Smith.

“But I miss the guys.”

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Smith has not completely retired from his life in the police, he discovered.

“He has returned to the reserves – because he cannot do without himself,” said his wife.