{"id":200239,"date":"2026-03-21T09:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:10:12","slug":"restaurant-closing-after-75-years-franchise-eatery-closes-12-sites-fl-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200239\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Closing After 75 Years | Franchise Eatery Closes 12 Sites: FL Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a 75-year-old family-owned restaurant\u2019s pending sale and closure to an airline adding two new international flights at Tampa International Airport, here are the latest business headlines from Patch.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a pair of bills into law on Thursday, including one that blocks a proposed cruise port in Manatee County. The law protects the Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve from being developed into a cruise ship terminal near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/florida\/across-fl\/patient-refuses-leave-fl-hospital-5-months-after-discharge-lawsuit-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Patient Refuses To Leave FL Hospital 5 Months After Discharge, Lawsuit Claims<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Florida hospital is suing a patient who they claim refuses to leave her room despite being formally discharged five months ago, according to reports. Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said it was filing a lawsuit against a patient who was discharged from the hospital on Oct. 6 and continued to occupy a room at the time of filing on March 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a 75-year-old family-owned restaurant\u2019s pending sale and closure to an airline adding two new international flights at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-200239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}