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Sunshine Recycling, a premiere roll off dumpster rental company in Orlando, is supplying a construction company with their services for a new restaurant development site in Clermont, Florida. The project began in November and is expected to finish next year.

The contractor in charge of the construction site is Schmid Construction, a general contractor located in the Southeast that works on a variety of projects like franchise restaurants, retail establishments, automobile dealerships and industrial distribution centers. Like Sunshine Recycling, they are a LEED certified company and are committed to working in the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly way.

The restaurant being constructed is named Culvers, which first opened in 1984 in Wisconsin and is labeled a fast-casual restaurant. As opposed to fast-food restaurants, fast-casual restaurants do not offer full table service but provide higher-quality meal options with less frozen or processed ingredients. As of this year, there are over 500 Culvers restaurants in the country and Culvers first Florida location was opened in 2013 in Naples. Their staple menu items are the ButterBurger and their frozen custard, which can be turned into Concrete Mixers.

Sunshine Recycling is providing the construction site with several roll off dumpsters as well as their hauling services. Recycling construction debris properly and in an environmentally friendly way is of the highest priority. Roll off dumpsters are the ideal product for construction sites, as they are manufactured to withstand the heaviest of materials including concrete, brick and asphalt. Hauling services are also being provided several times each day to ensure there is no delay on turnaround. Sunshine is also supplying the construction site with portable toilets.

Recycling debris quickly and efficiently is of the utmost importance on a construction site, said Chuck Herb, owner of Sunshine Recycling. Our services ensure that these sites are capable of being completed on time and on budget.

About Sunshine Recycling of Orlando: Sunshine Recycling Inc. of Orlando is a dumpster rental company servicing central Florida. Offering various sizes of dumpsters including front-load, roll-off and full-size construction dumpsters, Sunshine Recycling also provides recyclable, waste and construction debris collection and hauling services and trash compactors. The company is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council and is LEED AP certified. For more information about construction dumpsters from Sunshine Recycling, please visit http://www.orlando-dumpsters.com/construction-dumpsters/.

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PORT RICHEY Culver's, a popular restaurant best known in the Midwest for its ButterBurgers, has submitted plans for a restaurant in Port Richey at the city's busiest U.S. 19 intersection.

Plans call for a 4,200-square-foot, 123-seat restaurant at U.S. 19 and Richey Drive, across from the highway's bustling Ridge Road intersection. It will be the first franchise in Pasco County for Wisconsin-based Culver's, which has been making a recent push in Florida, including two restaurants in Tampa and another in Largo.

Culver's Port Richey franchise owner Krys Zielinski, 34, who moved from Germany to Wisconsin 14 years ago, said that after an exhaustive search for a restaurant location, he is thrilled to be settling with his family in Port Richey. He said construction will begin this month, with an opening date slated for April.

"It's a beautiful location," Zielinski said. "The street is busy, and the corner lot is awesome. So I'm pretty pumped. It's a great spot to be."

Culver's opened its first restaurant in Sauk City, Wis., in 1984 and now has more than 500 restaurants across 22 states. The restaurant in Port Richey will be on a former used car lot, also slated for another 3,000 square feet of retail space, according to plans submitted to the city.

The chain touts its signature ButterBurgers, with never-frozen beef on a lightly toasted, buttered bun. Culver's is also known for its vanilla and chocolate custard made daily, as well as a flavor of the day. The quick-service restaurant also offers chicken sandwiches, shaved prime rib sandwiches, hand-battered fish, beef pot roast and fried chicken.

Port Richey City Manager Tom O'Neill said Culver's could not have selected a better location for the restaurant an area that has been booming with development, including a Wawa service station and sub shop last year and a new Asian fusion restaurant currently under construction, both across the street.

"It's a sign that the U.S. 19 corridor is being looked at with a lot of interest," O'Neill said. "It will be another thing that will beautify and modernize the corridor."

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Popeyes, an Atlanta, Ga.-based fried chicken restaurant chain, will open its first store in Cedar Rapids early next year.

Jeff Braverman of SASAJ LLC in Coralville said the foundation for the 60-seat, 2,700-square-foot restaurant is under construction just east of the Road Ranger store at Blairs Ferry Road and C Avenue NE.

The actual structure is being trucked in and should be here on Dec. 15, said Braverman, formerly president of Hawkeye Foodservice in Coralville. Anyone driving down Blairs Ferry Road will see a real change at that intersection.

Our goal is to open Feb. 9. We plan to initially hire about 60 people and hope to keep them really busy.

Braverman said SASAJ in July bought an existing Popeyes location in Waterloo to become proficient at running the business.

Ive never been on this side of the business, said Braverman, whose family owned Hawkeye Foodservice until July 2012. Ive always worked on the supplier side of the restaurant business.

Its a chance to talk and interact with the people who actually consume the food, rather than those who prepare it.

Braverman said the restaurant will offer dine-in and drive-up service. He said Popeyes corporate monitors service through the drive-up window, which can account for 50 percent of the restaurants business.

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Chicago firefighters were tasked with an emotional assignment in the South Loop on Wednesday: Trying to save a historic former fire station from being destroyed in an extra-alarm fire.

Its a little heartbreaking, said Deputy District Chief John Shehan, who was on the scene Wednesday afternoon when the fire caved in the buildings roof. Its a shame.

The firehouse-turned-restaurant at 1401 S. Michigan Ave. has hosted a president, movie stars and served as one of former Mayor Daley's favorite eateries.

It is architecturally significant as well, according to Bonnie McDonald, president of Landmarks Illinois, who confirmed the building was designated as a landmark in 2003.

"It is a legitimate historic resource its a significant building that we believe can be rebuilt, said McDonald.

"I think whats wonderful is to see the outpouring of support from the firefighters themselves because many of them remember it being a firehouse its important for us to reuse this place as a landmark to firefighters, McDonald said.

Shehan remembers it because his father, a firefighter himself, used to take Shehan along on visits to the station in the early 1970s, where he could explore the building and play handball as a child.

The extra-alarm fire started by accident at about 10:20 a.m. while roofers were working on top of the building, according to CFD spokesman Juan Hernandez. The building was evacuated of construction workers and retaurant employees and everyone was out safely.The blaze was under control by about 12:15 p.m. after its roof collapsed.

Fire commissioner Jose Santiago used to work from the building when it housed firefighters, according to Hernandez. Once Santiago learned of the fire, "he focused all efforts on extinguishing it," Hernandez said. The building last served as a firehouse in the late 1990s, according to a CFD spokesman.

Hernandez said every effort was made to preserve the building, though since the roof had collapsed it would "take a lot of motivation to be rebuilt, and we hope that it is, because obviously it's a nice, iconic area."

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Cupertino residents some time in 2015 will be able to create their own hamburgers when The Counter comes to Stevens Creek Boulevard. Representatives with the custom burger-creation restaurant shared their plans to come to Cupertino during a Dec. 9 city planning commission meeting.

The restaurant will come to new retail frontage just steps from the under-construction Biltmore Apartment project near 10159 South Blaney Ave. The restaurant will take up 3,735 square feet of a 7,000 square-foot building pad. The Counter will have 76 indoor seats, 15 counter bar seats, and 12 outdoor patio seats near a fire pit. A maximum of 14 employees will be on hand during operating hours, according to Cupertino city staff.

South Bay residents might already be familiar with The Counter's locations in Mountain View, Palo Alto, Fremont and within Santana Row in San Jose. When it eventually opens, the Cupertino location will operate Monday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Representatives from The Counter visited the Cupertino Planning Commission Dec. 9 asking for a use permit to operate a counter area that will serve alcohol. Project applicant Jared Taylor referred to the chain as "iconic" in the Bay Area and said it would help generate interest along Stevens Creek Boulevard. The building will sit roughly 125 feet from the south-west corner of Stevens Creek Boulevard and South Blaney Avenue.

"We really draw in a nice clientele of families, and people coming in for lunch," Taylor told the commission. "We really feel that this restaurant and this location is going to help activate Stevens Creek Boulevard by having people out there on the patio, having the fire-pit out there, and seeing people at lunch as you drive by."

The Counter is a full service, sit down restaurant and bar that offers lunch and dinner options to customers. The proposed floor plan includes a separate bar area integrated within the restaurant and an outdoor patio area. Representatives from The Counter will also work with Cupertino city staff to tinker with how the exterior facade looks facing Stevens Creek Boulevard. Ideas include clear glass, back lit design features, or local artwork.

The retail building that will serve as The Counter's home is part of a much larger apartment complex expansion that been in the works for more than three years. In September 2012, the Cupertino City Council gave developers the go-ahead to add 80 residential units and the 7,000 square foot retail and commercial building along the Stevens Creek Boulevard frontage. The development is currently under construction and is expected to be operational by early 2015, according to Cupertino city staff.

The project wiped out the Blaney Plaza strip mall, which also was home to Chilli's and Shan Restaurant. The Village Falafel is the only retail pad that was not acquired by developers and has remained operational during the months and months of construction.

Prometheus, a San Mateo-based real estate and property management group, manages the property. The new apartments will be a continuation of the already-established Biltmore Apartments on S. Blaney Avenue. An additional 12 units were also planned to be added at the current Biltmore apartment site.

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TIME History Food & Drink How a McDonalds Restaurant Spawned the Slow Food Movement The McDonald's arches logo is displayed outside a McDonald's fast food restaurant BloombergBloomberg via Getty Images The Slow Food Manifesto was signed 25 years ago, on Dec. 10, 1989

When Italys first McDonalds franchise opened at the heart of Rome in 1986, the opposition came from all angles. Officials said it didnt have the right construction permits; celebrities called it the Americanization of Italy; politicians said it ruined a historic center; neighbors said it was noisy and its odor unbearable; thousands of people rallied outside the location in the Piazza di Spagna.

One of the opponents, an Italian journalist named Carlo Petrini, took a novel approach by handing out plates of penne to the protesters.

I was alarmed by the culturally homogenizing nature of fast food, Petrini told TIME years later, in the magazine May 17, 1999, issue.

The McDonalds franchise, said at the time to be the worlds largest, remained but Petrinis grievances would extend far beyond the Piazza di Spagna. He established the Slow Food association that year, aiming to protect traditional foods and advocating for agricultural biodiversity,

On Dec. 10, 1989, three years after the franchise opened in Rome and 25 years ago today, he joined representatives of 15 countries in Paris for the signing of the Slow Food Manifesto, and the international Slow Food movement was born.

Today, the movement boasts more than 150,000 members across 150 countries. TIME described Petrini in 2004 as a revolutionary who changed the way we think about eating.

And it was all thanks to McDonalds.

Read TIMEs 2008 story about the movement: Can Slow Food Feed the World?

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The Police have begun formal investigations into the collapse of a restaurant under construction in Cantonments, a suburb of Accra on Saturday.

The incident resulted in the death of one person and twelve others sustained various degrees of injury.

It took a rescue team drawn from the Ghana Police Service, the Military, the National Disaster Management Organization and the Ghana National Fire Service about 12 hours to pull out the body of a carpenter who was trapped under the debris. The Public Relations Officer of the Accra Police Command, ASP Effia Tenge told Citi News they were thirteen in all and one unfortunately found himself under the rubble, the twelve were rescued sent to the hospital then nine of them treated and discharged.

Normally in a rescue operation like this our major objective is to rescue the people who are under the rubble, so immediately when we rushed here that is what we did, she added.

Meanwhile, one of the workers [name withheld] in narrating their ordeal to Citi News said, We were at the top, one of the carpenters was down there then suddenly the building collapsed and we fell down. I was hurt at my knee and bruises on my elbow but the carpenter who was down there died.

We have been building the project for the past one year now. The building is a Lebanese restaurant. I have been working here for the past three months. It was only yesterday that we worked at night, and that happened.

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P.F. Chang's is on track to meet its goal of opening the new location at 720 Briarwood Circle by the end of 2014.

The restaurant, which describes its menu and atmosphere as mixture of American and Chinese cultures, is now slated to open Dec. 15, according to the company website.

Ann Arbor City Council approved plans for both P.F. Chang's and Bravo Cucina Italiana to have freestanding restaurant buildings in the Briarwood Mall parking lot in January.

Bravo Cucina Italiana has set an opening date of Dec. 11.

The restaurant will have an outdoor dining area and a pedestrian plaza with landscaping and bicycle parking. More than 100 employees are expected to staff the location.

The Arizona-based chain has over 200 locations, including those in nearby Northville Township, Dearborn and Troy.

Darcie Moran is a cops and courts reporter for MLive and The Ann Arbor News. Email her at dmoran@mlive.com or follow her on Twitter @darciegmoran.

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McDONOUGH Officials are projecting as many as 296 new full- and part-time jobs could be up for grabs in the McDonough area.

They said a critical construction loan for a hotel and restaurant should help bring to life a project for McDonough that will benefit its communitys economy and generate jobs for residents.

Home2 Suites hotel with 92 studio suites and a Wild Wing Caf are tapped for construction at 60 Mill Road, southwest of the Jonesboro Road exit from Interstate 75.

The hotel and restaurant will join Home Depot, Sams Club, Logans Roadhouse, Chilis Grill & Bar, OCharleys, Red Lobster and others in the retail center.

Officials said a La Quinta Inn will be constructed on the site next year as well.

The project is being developed by Global Hotel Group and Shetal Patel, a physician. The investors turned to AVANA Capital to facilitate a construction loan, which will then be converted into an SBA 504 Green Loan.

Were thrilled to see this come to fruition. This project will bring some needed rooms to McDonough and another terrific restaurant option, said Subhash Sam Patel, president and chief investment officer of Global Hotel Group. The jobs that will come as a result of this project will help strengthen the economy in McDonough and in the region.

Global Hotel Group and partner company Global Management & Investment Group manage more than 2,300 rooms for a variety of brands, including Hilton, LaQuinta, Wyndham, Accor, Choice and IHG.

Home2 Suites, a relatively new concept by Hilton, is designed to provide amenities of home with the facilities of a hotel. A typical room features a sleeper sofa, office area, microwave, dishwasher and refrigerator, as well as a separate sleeping area and bathroom for one-bedroom suites. Suites have a 42 HD flat-panel television, Serta Suite Dream beds, and alarm clock with iPod port and MP3 jack.

The Wild Wing Caf, inside the 9,470-square-feet building, will feature a 1,500-square-feet patio area. Part of the site will be rented out to a local tenant for a non-franchise restaurant.

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Given its prominent position within one of the countrys most celebrated heritage sites, applications concerning The Temple Bar pub have come under particular scrutiny from planning authorities in recent years. Photograph: Aidan Crawley/The Irish Times

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission for an ambitious redevelopment within The Temple Bar pub involving the construction of a new double height oyster bar.

Plans had been put in place to transform part of the premises, currently used for functions including bar and retail space, into a lavish new restaurant with an exposed loft at the first-floor level.

The proprietors had previously gained permission to construct the oyster bar element of the new design. However, an attempt to remove the first floor apartment which currently exists at 47 Temple Bar was rebuffed by the council because the new double-space height would detract from the setting and character of the adjoining protected structure.

The decision is the latest in a series of setbacks for the pubs owners, who initially instigated redevelopment plans in the summer of 2013. Although a planning appeal has already been lodged with An Bord Pleanla, a final decision isnt expected until April 2015.

Given its prominent position within one of the countrys most celebrated heritage sites, applications concerning The Temple Bar pub have come under particular scrutiny from planning authorities in recent years.

The published case decision also cited concerns over additional downlights over the new restaurant, which would be injurious to the amenities and character of the streetscape and would act as a visually intrusive feature in the area.

Speaking in the report, conservation officers said allowing a double-space height within that particular type of building could set an unfortunate precedence.

The report also recommended that proposed alterations should be sensitive to historical context as the facade is the only remaining element of the original nineteenth century building.

Planning officers also mentioned concerns in relation to increased noise penetration from the ground floor use to the upper residential units [floors three and four], which have not been addressed via the submitted application.

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