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They will seek president, vice president roles in next Council term.
Being nice, at First Watch, isn’t only for greeting customers. It’s a JACKSONVILLE companywide belief that kindness goes a long way.
BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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Five months into the 2019-20 term, City Council’s next president and vice president could already be determined. Council Vice President Tommy Hazouri filed a letter of intent Nov. 19 for the presidency in the 202021 year. Group 5 At-Large Council member Sam Newby filed his letter Nov. 25 for vice president. Hazouri, 75, a former Jacksonville mayor from 1987-91, is seeking the Council presidency during his second term in the at-large seat. He spent 12 years in the Florida House of Representatives from 1974-86, and was a Duval County School Board member from 2004-12. According to documents from Hazouri’s office, only Council members Al Ferraro, Danny Becton and Rory Diamond have yet to commit to his candidacy. Newby, 56, a Republican, was elected to Council in 2015 and reelected in March. He is a past chairman of the Duval County Republican Party. As of Tuesday afternoon, Council President Scott Wilson; Ferraro; Becton; and Council member Garrett Dennis had not pledged their support for Newby. Hazouri and Newby will need a majority vote from the 19-member Council to be elected to the one-year terms. They would be seated July 1. MMENDENHALL@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
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First Watch intends to open by early summer in OakLeaf Crossing and about a month after that in Nocatee Town Center, said Eleni Kouvatsos, the company’s public relations and communications manager. “Both these new restaurants will have a bar and serve our crafted brunch cocktails,” Kouvatsos said. “As a 36-year-old company, we’ve learned throughout the years that in order to stay relevant, we must evolve, try new
ospitality lifer Ken Pendery recalls vividly the time when he was proudly wearing a new shirt and tie and a waitress in a fancy Cincinnati restaurant accidentally spilled red wine on him. It wasn’t the spill that irked Pendery, it was management. They nonchalantly told him he could get the shirt dry-cleaned, return with the receipt and they would cut him a check. “That’s really inconvenient,” said Pendery, a Cincinnati-area native, of the mid-1990s incident. “I didn’t want to have to come back there with the receipt.” In response, Pendery, the executive chairman of breakfastbrunch-lunch chain First Watch, tells company managers to do the opposite. “They will take $10 out of the drawer and pay for it in advance,” Pendery said. “And they will give the customer their card and say, ‘If this isn’t enough, call me, and we’ll send you the money for the rest.’” That attitude defines the ‘You
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First Watch Restaurants Inc.
Ken Pendery founded First Watch in California along with John Sullivan in 1983. The company moved its headquarters to Florida in 1986.
Chain expanding in Northeast Florida, adding bars BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
First Watch, The Daytime Cafe, is adding two Northeast Florida locations next year in addition to the six open in Duval and St. Johns counties — and they will have bars, or at least partial ones. The Riverside restaurant at 192 Riverside Ave. was the first in the company to sell and serve alcohol when it opened in October 2017, renovating and moving into a former Corner Bakery Cafe.
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