{"id":31007,"date":"2025-11-11T11:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31007\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:51:09","slug":"veteran-owned-pennsylvania-sandwich-shop-feeding-vets-for-free-theyre-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/31007\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran-owned Pennsylvania sandwich shop feeding vets for free: “They’re suffering”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this Veterans Day<\/a>, veterans in the Philadelphia region are helping veterans and hope that those who serve the country are never forgotten. The owner of 2 Street Sammies in Montgomery County is helping by donating to the local nonprofit\u00a0Salute 2 Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the menu at 2 Street Sammies<\/a> in Ambler is a favorite at the sandwich shop: the Italian hoagie.<\/p>\n

Owner Nate Baynes knew from an early age that food can be transformative, but it wasn’t until he served in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the Air National Guard did Baynes knew he wanted to make good food his life’s work when he came back home.<\/p>\n

\"Nate<\/p>\n

Nate Baynes in the Air National Guard<\/p>\n

Nate Baynes<\/p>\n

“We would have things like the MREs, which are basically, you know, food in a bag,” Baynes said. “There wasn’t exactly a private chef on hand to take care of the troops.”<\/p>\n

This Veterans Day, Baynes is prepared to be that private chef for veterans. He’s feeding vets for free at his spot inside Ridge Hall.<\/p>\n

“The sacrifices they make \u2014 for themselves and their families \u2014 when they come back, the support doesn’t seem to be there,” Baynes said.<\/p>\n

Baynes is also donating a portion of his proceeds to the nonprofit Salute 2 Service this year.<\/p>\n

\"2<\/p>\n

2 Street Sammies owner and veteran Nate Baynes<\/p>\n

CBS Philadelphia<\/p>\n

CBS News Philadelphia profiled its founder, Marine veteran Rodney Wyatt<\/a>, back in 2022. Now, years later, Wyatt says the need has only grown.<\/p>\n

“There are roughly 28,000 veterans in Bucks County outside of the 275,000 in Pennsylvania,” Baynes said, “and they’re suffering, a lot of veterans are suffering. We give away upwards of $50, $60, $70, $80 worth of food in one box for a family.”<\/p>\n

Salute 2 Service provides not only food, but also clothing and other essentials to veterans and their families.<\/p>\n

Wyatt says donations are now more important than ever as the organization also looks to relocate to lower Bucks County.<\/p>\n

\"Rodney<\/p>\n

Rodney Wyatt, founder of Salute 2 Service<\/p>\n

Rodney Wyatt<\/p>\n

“[Donations] will help us secure a facility once we can find one,” Wyatt said. “This is our problem right now. So, it is important for me to try and bring as much awareness to that whenever I can, and Veterans Day is a great time to do that.”<\/p>\n

2 Street Sammies<\/a> will be feeding veterans for free from 11:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Ridge Hall in Ambler. You can also help Salute 2 Service anytime, especially if you can help them find a new location in Bucks County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this Veterans Day, veterans in the Philadelphia region are helping veterans and hope that those who serve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[197,200,28,30,29,15041],"class_list":["post-31007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bucks-county","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}