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FILE - This Aug. 5, 2011 file photo shows colorful Tupperware products in Bellflower, Calif.

Once Florida’s ‘Magic Kingdom before Disney,’ Tupperware faces dire future

May 9, 2023 at 1:35 p.m.

The year was 1954, and Tupperware was having a party. The company's new Osceola County, Florida, headquarters was dedicated by famed Tupperware executive Brownie Wise during a five-day "jubilee," which...

Customers in line in front of the menu boards at Portillo's River North restaurant during lunchtime in Chicago on April 27, 2017.

Orlando gets its first taste of Portillo’s — and the Chicago institution is bustling even before opening day

June 2, 2021 at 11:16 a.m.

Orlandoans have started to get a taste of Portillo's hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, even though the Floridian outpost's announced opening date is June 15. A YouTube video posted...

Pavos en la granja Lake Meadow Naturals de Dale Volkert en Ocoee, Florida, el miércoles 28 de octubre de 2020.

Pocos, pero muy agradecidos

November 3, 2020 at 3:46 p.m.

El tradicional pavo gordo de Acción de Gracias podría convertirse en otra víctima de la pandemia del coronavirus este año. El gigante minorista Walmart está almacenando más pechugas de pavo...

Turkeys at Dale Volkert's Lake Meadow Naturals farm in Ocoee, Wednesday, October 28, 2020. The farm raised 1,200 turkeys this year and still had about 400 turkeys available recently, Volkert said.

Big turkeys could be rare birds at Thanksgiving dinner this year

November 2, 2020 at 1:22 p.m.

The traditional fat Thanksgiving turkey could become another casualty of the coronavirus pandemic this year. Retail giant Walmart is stocking more turkey breasts as people plan to get together in...

Original Fat Cats is seen packed in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday June 20, 2020. Jennifer Lett South Florida Sun Sentinel

Florida reopens: DeSantis lifts state’s coronavirus restrictions

October 1, 2020 at 9:10 a.m.

TALLAHASSEE — Florida will no longer require bars and restaurants to operate at less than full capacity, as Gov. Ron DeSantis issued an executive order Friday removing all remaining restrictions...

Angelo Ross, left, facing camera, and Jonathan Diaz, right, facing camera both Patient Consultants at Trulieve a Medical Marijuana ,dispensery in Orlando Florida assist patients Tuesday,April 24, 2018. (Red Huber/Staff Photographer)

Medical marijuana chocolates, cookies and gels hit the dispensary shelves in Florida

September 21, 2020 at 12:26 p.m.

Nearly four years after Floridians voted to legalize medical marijuana, chocolates, cookies and gummy-like gels containing the drug are just becoming available at dispensaries in the state. Trulieve is carrying...

Guests walk past Starbucks while others wait in a socially distanced line during the reopening of Disney Springs on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Starbucks, which has 32,000 stores globally, said in a Wednesday news release it was accelerating the transformation of its stores in the United States due to coronavirus and evolving customer needs.

Starbucks to shut down 400 stores as company accelerates transformation because of coronavirus

June 12, 2020 at 12:54 p.m.

Starbucks plans to close as many as 400 company-operated stores in the next 18 months, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission document. The document did not include a list...

The Space X Falcon 9 rocket carrying two astronauts in the Crew Dragon capsule sits on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Wednesday, May 27, 2020, as the countdown clock shows the time it was stopped because the launch was scrubbed due to weather. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel)

SpaceX and NASA launch two astronauts from the U.S. for the first time in 9 years

May 31, 2020 at 12:52 p.m.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — America's triumphant return to human spaceflight looked like this Saturday: A commercial rocket cutting through clear blue skies with cheers erupting along the Space Coast. SpaceX's...

The Olive Garden on North Orlando Avenue in Winter Park, photographed Thursday March 19, 2020. Owner Darden Restaurants said that 49% of its dining rooms had reopened as of May 17 and it expected more than 65% of them to open with limited capacity by the end of the month.

Darden Restaurants reopens nearly half its dining rooms; employees to return to Orlando headquarters

May 19, 2020 at 1:42 p.m.

The Orlando-based owner of Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and other chain restaurants has opened back up nearly half of its more than 1,800 dining rooms as coronavirus restrictions across the...

At the new-look Olive Garden in front of Fashion Square — which opened last year — there is a dedicated to-go area with a separate entrance.

Red Lobster to open ghost kitchen, emphasize delivery in 2020

January 10, 2020 at 12:59 p.m.

This year won't be the first time Red Lobster has been around for a presidential election or the Summer Olympic Games. But this time around, the Orlando-based seafood chain of...

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