(CNN) It's a long-held tradition for patrons to staple money to anything they can at Siesta Key Oyster Bar: walls, ceilings and awnings. Now it'll go to a good cause.

At the beginning of September, staff and the owners at the Siesta Key Oyster Bar in Florida were watching reports about Hurricane Dorian ravaging the Bahamas and they wanted to find a way to help.

Dollar bills hang everywhere at the Siesta Key Oyster Bar.

Their answer was blowing in the wind around them: for years, patrons -- armed with an industrial-strength stapler stored at the host stand -- have been plastering bills anywhere there was room and on top of other bills when there was no room.

It's based on a tale the staff tells customers, says Kristin Hale, general manager at the bar. Fishermen would staple a dollar to the wall of a beloved bar so that if they didn't catch anything that day, they still had enough money for a drink.

The staff decided that the money that was stapled everywhere in the bar would go to hurricane relief efforts in the Bahamas.

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