{"id":149374,"date":"2026-02-09T22:40:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149374\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:40:54","slug":"pirates-invade-riverview-chick-fil-a-just-in-time-for-the-gasparilla-childrens-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/149374\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Invade Riverview Chick-fil-A Just In Time For The Gasparilla Children\u2019s Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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January is pirate season in Tampa Bay, and with that brings two Gasparilla parades. The Gasparilla Children\u2019s Parade took place on January 24, with the main Gasparilla Parade on January 31. <\/p>\n

To kick off the parade season, the Riverview Chick-fil-A hosted its own pirate invasion for local families ahead of the Gasparilla Children\u2019s Parade. <\/p>\n

\u201cChick-fil-A has been a sponsor of the Gasparilla Children\u2019s parade for years,\u201d said Toni Miller, restaurant marketing director of Chick-fil-A Riverview. \u201cOur operator, Gabe, says that it\u2019s one of his favorite events and loves that our restaurant gets to participate year\u202fafter year.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Riverview Chick-fil-A was approached by the local pirate krewe, the Krewe of the South Shore Marauders, to host a fundraiser for its scholarship fund at the restaurant. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe saw this as a great opportunity to bring a smile to the faces of our guests and combined forces to make it a whole experience by turning it into an event and bringing a taste of Gasparilla to Riverview,\u201d Miller said. \u201cTheir krewe dressed up in their pirate gear and passed out beads and balloon swords to our guests both inside the restaurant and in our drive-through. Our restaurant was decked out in pirate flags and maps, we had a DJ playing music outside and, of course, we were visited by the cow.\u201d <\/p>\n

Local children were invited to craft their own parrot out of paper tubes, feathers and pipe cleaners. Families dressed for the party with lots of eyepatches and bandanas. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe loved hosting the event and supporting their fundraiser and hope to grow it to be even bigger next year,\u201d Miller said. \u201cRiverview is such a unique and special place to live. The people here are wonderful, and we love that they have embraced us from the very beginning. We are honored to be a place where this community gathers to celebrate, connect, and enjoy each other\u2019s company.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Chick-fil-A Riverview is owned and operated by Gabriel Porrata. It opened in October 2020 as the first Chick-fil-A in Riverview and was immediately very popular within the community. Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy believed \u201ca great company is a caring company,\u201d and Porrata strives to bring that energy to his store in Riverview. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter the title or job description, our reason for coming to work is to generously share our time, talents and resources,\u201d Miller said. \u201cEveryone\u2019s job at Chick-fil-A is to care for and serve others. Chick-fil-A Riverview aims to be the most caring company in our community by serving great food that people can feel good about and strengthening our community. We do that by being involved in local schools and organizations in the area, by serving great food and by offering memorable experiences within our restaurant.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Riverview location hosts a breakfast bingo twice a month where guests can compete to win prizes while they enjoy their food. The next breakfast bingo will be held on Thursday, February 19. The Riverview Chick-fil-A is located at 12810 Summerfield Crossing Blvd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January is pirate season in Tampa Bay, and with that brings two Gasparilla parades. The Gasparilla Children\u2019s Parade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-149374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}