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The Daily City – #49 – Fantastic Worlds and Where to Find Them

July 29, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Publix is now hanging signs in their stores that explain briefly their service animal policy. The policy isn’t new or different. It’s always been in place. Now they’re just alerting the public through appropriate signage. The service animal signs say, “For food safety reasons, only service animals that are specifically trained to aid a person with disabilities are permitted within the store,” the signs say. “Service animals are not permitted to sit or ride in shopping carts. Thank you for your help!”

Universal Orlando may be opening a 4th theme park in Orlando called Fantastic Worlds according to their patent application for that name with the attached purpose of “entertainment services in the nature of amusement park and theme park services.”Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #48 – Members Only Coffee

July 22, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Highwoods Properties, Inc submitted a request for a Major Certificate of Appearance Approval to the Appearance Review Board for the renovation of the Eola Park Centre office building site 200 E. Robinson Street, at the corner of Robinson and Rosalind. Improvements most visible and useful to locals looking for a new place to eat lunch or hang the construction of shade pavilions, increased plaza space, outdoor recreating space.

Gratitude Coffee Shop is now open in College Park at 1307 Edgewater Dr. Hours will be Monday thru Friday 7am-3pm and Saturdays 8am-2pm. The shop will sell coffee, used books, local art, plants and more. The business had been running as a coffee truck for years.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #47 – Amazon Rekognition

July 14, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer will deliver the 2018 State of the City Address August 7th at 10:30am at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The Mayor will share the City’s current and future plans with the community. Locals can watch the presentation live as well as watch the recording of it later at cityoforlando.net.

The new area code for new phone customers in Orange, Osceola, Seminole, and parts of Lake and Volusia counties will be 689 within about 10 months. Customers with the 407 area code will retain it. The new code was supposed to be introduced in 2002 but because of an “aggressive push for number conservation plans,” it wasn’t.Continue Reading …

The Daily City – #46 – Bubble Egg Waffles

July 9, 2018 By Chris

TRANSCRIPT: The steakhouse chain Mannys Chophouse has opened a location in downtown Baldwin Park at 4979 New Broad Street, next door to Colibri Mexican Cuisine. The Mannys Menu is a family friendly collection of basics: buffalo wings, onion rings, potato skins, steaks, seafood, chicken, burgers and chocolate cake. Manny Nikolaidis opened the first Manny’s Original Chophouse® in Haines City, Florida, in 2004. Between 2007 and 2013, Manny opened three more locations in the same part of the state. There’s one Manny’s already in the Central Florida region and that one is located in Altamonte Springs.

A new restaurant called Blended Cafe Bar serving bubble tea, bubble egg waffles, banh mi, bao, coffee, wine and wine cocktails, and craft beer is coming to College Park in a 5,064 sq ft. space at 2306 Edgewater Drive next door to the College Park Diner. One item on the menu, the bubble egg waffle is a dish I’d never heard of. Perhaps if you’re as food-ignorant as I am, you may find the next sentence of value. A bubble egg waffle is an egg-based square waffle divided into giant pull-apart bubble pieces. Hmmm. Blended Cafe Bar will join two other dessert shops along College Park’s Edgewater Drive: Jeremiah’s Italian Ice and Trevi Pasta.