Food notes: Kitchen on San Marco OKd for build-out

Wednesday, August 20, 4:42 PM EDT

Compiled by Karen Brune Mathis

P&C Construction Inc. will combine four suites at a former pizza-burger location at 1402 San Marco Blvd. into one to create the Kitchen on San Marco.

The site is at San Marco Boulevard and Childrens Way.

Gary Montour, senior vice president with Colliers International in Jacksonville, represented the tenant. He said Tuesday the restaurant could open within 90 days.

The restaurant will serve as a teaching establishment where a staff of professional chefs provides a learning lab environment for culinary and pastry arts students from Culinard, The Culinary Institute of Virginia College.

Their focus is to give them a full feel of the entire realm of the restaurant industry, Montour said. San Marco is going to get a new restaurant.

Montour said it would be operated as any restaurant would. They have to make sure it is run like a business, he said, which means understanding a balance sheet, knowing how to apply for a bank loan for equipment, the terms of signing a lease.

The 4,533-square-foot project will be renovated at a cost of $617,005. Education Corporation of America owns Virginia College. Representatives of Education Corporation of America and The Culinary Institute of Virginia College did not return telephone calls for comment.

Last August, the Education Corporation of America vice president of student retail operations, Ron Patak, said students at Culinard will train at the restaurant during their 36-week course. Virginia College operates at 5940 Beach Blvd., at the intersection with University Boulevard.

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