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Monday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Robotic strawberry picker could be tool of the future
One Florida company is developing technology to replace farm workers with robots. Harvest CROO Robotics LLC, hopes to see their strawberry-picking robotic machines in Florida fields by 2016.
› Secret menu items a hidden delight at Central Florida restaurants
For many of Central Florida's most popular restaurants, there's a regular menu and a secret menu, available only to patrons in the know or armed with passwords.
› While effects are in question, vaping grows in Brevard
Popping up along with the Space Coast with regularity are retail shops like Pure Cigs, the Funky Buddha and others, not to mention enterprises like MNG Vape in Melbourne, a company founded by Tony Childers that makes hundreds of gallons of liquid that is shipped across the United States for electronic smoking devices.
› At Publix, robust grocery earnings, fresh North Carolina expansion
Maintaining its No. 1 market share among grocery stores in Florida, Publix on Friday reported a solid 6.8 percent gain in revenues and a more robust 11.2 percent bump in earnings for the first quarter.
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