SWFL restaurant week turns into bustling month of revenue gains

Sizzle Dining has grown from a small event to a September celebration — a big impact on the Southwest Florida restaurant industry and one of the largest restaurant week events in the region.

By Beth Luberecki
| 5:00 a.m. September 5, 2024
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Guy Clarke has been behind Sizzle Dining in Naples since 2016.

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Guy Clarke knows it might evoke some eye rolls to say he had a vision about starting a Naples restaurant week. But that’s exactly what happened back when he was running BaconFest Naples.

While he was overseeing the Kiwanis Club of Pelican Bay fundraising event one year, a friend asked him why Naples didn’t have a restaurant week the way places like New York, Miami, and Orlando did. And that’s when it happened.