{"id":5678,"date":"2011-04-18T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5678"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T14:25:56","slug":"restaurant-needs-votes-to-win-national-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5678","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant Needs Votes To Win National Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<br \/>\nSentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a means of introducing his latest movie, a popular star is hosting a national contest. And, one Tampa restaurant hopes to get enough online votes to win.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is entitled <strong><em>\u201cMy Favorite Family Restaurant Competition.\u201d <\/em>Tyler Perry\u2019s<\/strong> latest movie, <strong><em>\u201cMadea\u2019s Big Happy Family,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> is promoting the competition, known as <strong><em>\u201cMadea\u2019s Restaurant Wars.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two Tampa restaurants, <strong>Urban Culinary Cuisine<\/strong>, and <strong>Simply Good<\/strong>, are participating in the contest. Other Florida cities participating are Orlando and Miami. Cities in several other states and Washington, D.C., are also participating.<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to cast votes go on line to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">www.MadeasRestaurantWars.com<\/span>, select the restaurant you wish to vote for, and cast your ballot. Those participating have an opportunity to win \u201cThe Ultimate Family Dinner,\u201d valued at $500, if chosen.<\/p>\n<p>The voting ends on Thursday, April 21st. The movie will begin showing in theaters on Friday, April 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Located in New Tampa, Urban Culinary Cuisine features heart-healthy southern cuisine. The Executive Chef and Co-owner, <strong>John Saxton<\/strong>, also conducts \u201cHealth &amp; Wellness Lectures\u201d to organizations interested in providing healthy cooking techniques to its members.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saxton<\/strong> has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Science. His goal is to target the African American community to share information about healthy eating. During his lectures, he teachers about foods taste good, but that can help reduce cholesterol and blood pressure levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor As a means of introducing his latest movie, a popular star is hosting a national contest. And, one Tampa restaurant hopes to get enough online votes to win. The contest is entitled \u201cMy Favorite Family Restaurant Competition.\u201d Tyler Perry\u2019s latest movie, \u201cMadea\u2019s Big Happy Family,\u201d is promoting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}