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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: YOUR INSIGHT
Darifair seeks foundation permit at Flagler Center
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The Jacksonville-based food-science company wants to build a research, development and technical HQ. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
About half of Menuat’s customers now are using the QR code menus. Founder and CEO Jeff Charette said he thinks the touchless option is here to stay. “I think you’re going to see some permanent changes out of this and I think it’s pushed us a little further into the future,
Darifair Foods LLC, the Jacksonville-based food-science company, wants to lay the foundation for its Southside Innovation and Technical Center. Stellar Group Inc. is the contractor and architect for the project at 13129 Flagler Center Blvd. in the Flagler Center office and industrial park in South Jacksonville. Darifair wants to build an almost 43,000-square-foot building with about 5,300 square feet of unenclosed space. The job cost is shown at an estimated $15 million on the foundation permit. Plans show customer service cubicles; a break room-meeting area; storage areas, including for raw materials; a research and development kitchen and a separate show kitchen; research rooms; R&D cubicles; a conference area; and accounting and human resources, among other functions. Darifair Foods LLC wants to develop the commercial building on 5.07 acres at northeast Gran Bay Parkway and Flagler Center Boulevard. The company paid $2.1 million Jan. 23 for the development site. Flagler Center is south of Old St. Augustine Road between Interstate 95 and Philips Highway. The city has been reviewing construction plans and the St. Johns River Water Management District issued a permit June 19 authorizing a surface water management system on 4.92 acres.
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SCAN FOR THE MENU
Customers using Menuat’s technology can scan a QR code with their smartphone camera to bring up the restaurant’s menu. It’s a sanitary solution to traditional menus amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Jeff Charette is the founder and CEO of Jacksonville-based Menuat. The company makes digital menus displayed on screens and launched its QR code menu product after the COVID-19 outbreak.
After a monthlong lull at the start of the pandemic, Menuat found a solution for its clients. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
As restaurants search for a more sanitary alternative to traditional, reusable menus, Jacksonville-based Menuat is offering a solution. Typically, Menuat develops digital menus for its clients that can be dis-
played on large screens at restaurants, hotels or stores. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and restaurants were forced to adapt to keep customers and employees safe, Menuat launched a QR code menu. It allows customers to scan a QR code with their smartphone camera and bring up the restaurant’s menu.
Shipley Do-Nuts plans October opening Franchisee Robb Hamlett said July 30 he intends to open the area’s first Shipley Do-Nuts shop and drive-thru in October. The city issued a permit July 29 for Equity Builders of Florida L.L.C. to build-out 1,576 square feet for the shop at 12667 Beach Blvd., No. 101, at Tamaya Market at a cost of $228,759. Tamaya Market is the shopping center anchored by Sprouts Farmers Market at Beach and Kernan boulevards. Shipley will occupy an end unit of a three-tenant building that includes Heartland Dental.
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