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Thursday's Daily Pulse
What you need to know about Florida today
› Accused of refusing aid to disabled kids, a Florida agency responded – by hiring a PR guru
Dan Bookhout was accustomed to fighting over almost everything in his dealings with Florida’s Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, the program underwriting care for his severely disabled daughter, Arwen. The program’s “no, no, no culture,” he said, was “exhausting.”
› Orlando virtual restaurants grow with Robert Earl’s TikTok Kitchen, Tijuana Flats’ Smack Wings
Orlando restaurateur Robert Earl plans to offer eateries a chance to serve a delivery-only menu based on trends from the popular short video app TikTok in 2022, just the latest twist in the growing virtual restaurant trend. Virtual restaurants offer menus that existing restaurants can add with different names on delivery apps such as Uber Eats without the expense of additional physical space for a new business.
› Hooters parent company changes its name
The Clearwater-based company that owns and operates Hooters restaurants is changing its name. Hooters Management Corporation is now known as HMC Hospitality Group, according to a media release. HMC Hospitality Group operates 22 Hooters restaurants and 5 Hoots locations in Tampa Bay and Chicago. The first Hooters restaurant opened in 1983 in Clearwater.
› COVID hits Miami-Dade’s garbage department, and some cans left uncollected in driveways
A surge of COVID-19 cases sweeping through Miami-Dade County is colliding with the regular spike in garbage after the Christmas holidays, leaving some full trash cans on driveways as the county’s sanitation department struggles with staff shortages this week.
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