Restaurant owner adds bug spray invention to menu

Bodyguard is now available in 70 Southwest Florida locations.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 2:57 p.m. July 6, 2020
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Elke and Brian Podlasek have had their plates full for 20 years, running a busy restaurant on Sanibel Island, the Island Cow. The popular joint — it’s a “crazy, Key Westy-kind of place,” says Brian Podlasek — does more that $6 million in revenue a year.

 

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