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Food–Beverage

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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 23, 2024
High-end downtown Sarasota steak restaurant hiring for winter opening

Ocean Prime is hiring staff ahead of the restaurant’s opening this December in The Quay.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • September 19, 2024
Popular Tampa Bay pizza franchise shifts ownership

Longtime restaurateurs to take over.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • September 17, 2024
Clearwater restaurant group lands licensing deal with Naples taco restaurant

The deal will expand restaurants into Tampa Bay and central Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • September 13, 2024
Boar’s Head closes Virginia plant, discontinues liverwurst

The Sarasota company is also setting up a Boar’s Head Food Safety Council.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • September 9, 2024
Hospitality group acquires part of Tampa bakery

Gulf Coast Sourdough is slicing up its assets but will remain intact.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Andrew Warfield
  • September 9, 2024
Pair of downtown Sarasota restaurant buildings sold for $8.5M

Restaurant operations will be unaffected as Baird Inc. purchases El Melvin and Café Amici properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 7, 2024
Manatee County to buy Seafood Shack for $13 million

The county plans to develop nearly 8.9 acres in Cortez into a public boating access facility.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • September 6, 2024
SWFL food services company sells e-commerce unit for $700K

Innovative Food Holdings plans to grow its gourmet cheese business.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 5, 2024
Opening date set for flagship Fleming's in Tampa

The Bloomin' Brand-owned restaurant will be 13,000 square feet and designed to feel like a Napa Valley eatery.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Beth Luberecki
  • September 5, 2024
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.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Laura Lyon
  • September 4, 2024
North Florida coffee chain expanding to Tampa Bay

Ellianos Coffee, a chain based out of Lake City, is poised to open four locations in the Tampa Bay area.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 4, 2024
First Watch names chief technology officer

The restaurant group based in Manatee County promoted an industry veteran into a role in the C-suite.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 3, 2024
Boar's Head faces more lawsuits over listeria-recalled meat

The deli meat company headquartered in Sarasota is being sued for personal injury, wrongful death and other causes after selling meat contaminated with listeria.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon
  • August 28, 2024
Tampa fast-food chain names former Starbucks exec new CEO

Chris Tebben has coffee, candy and more on his executive resume.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio
  • August 27, 2024
Investor pays $6.6 million for Fort Myers Cooper’s Hawk location

An out-of-state buyer has purchased the property belonging to the popular eatery that opened last year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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