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Chicken Salad Chick – The Inside Scoop On The Newest Addition To Bloomingdale Sq.
By Brian Bokor
General Manager Jennifer Warren, owners Tammy and Brad Cochran and District Manager Elena Diacanu welcomed guests to the recently opened Chicken Salad Chick in Bloomingdale Square.
become reality, passing on several storefront opportunities along Bloomingdale Ave. to remain in Bloomingdale Square due to the improvements being made to the plaza, the corner location of the store allowing for a drive-thru and the desire to become part of the ever-growing Brandon/Valrico/Fishhawk/Riverview community. The Bloomingdale store was to be the couple’s second in the Tampa area with the first having opened in 2015 near USF at 2790 E. Fowler Ave., so while this project was on hold, they moved forward and opened up two other Tampa locations. The menu focuses around the 12 flavors of chicken salad made fresh by hand every morning using only premium chicken tenderloins. Beyond chicken salad, the menu offers several other healthy options in fresh salads along with homemade mac 'n cheese, pimento cheese, gourmet soups and seasonal desserts. The Cochrans, as well as Chicken Salad Chick corporation as a whole, strongly believe in supporting local charitable events throughout the year, with all the money raised at its most recent friends and family event donated to Metropolitan Ministries along with supporting the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. This year, Feeding Tampa Bay will be supported with the proceeds from the giving card sales program that Chicken Salad Chick offers. Chicken Salad Chick is open Monday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Catering is also offered. Visit www.chickensaladchick.com, and follow on social media for the latest trends.
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Team Hosts Dueling Piano Date Night To Support Cooperstown Trip
By Kate Quesada
A group of as they stay in young baseball barrack style players are offering dorms, which residents a fun night also include food, out this month to lodging, uniforms help them achieve for the tournatheir dreams. ment and game FishHawk Youth expenses,” said Baseball’s (FYB) Woytowich. 2020 Cooperstown The team team is hosting a has also organFishHawk Youth Baseball’s 2020 Dueling Piano event ized three music Cooperstown team is hosting a Dueling Piano fundraising event on Friday, January bingo nights to on Friday, January 24, 2020 at the Palmetto Club. 24, 2020 at the raise money, but Palmetto Club in FishHawk Ranch to the Dueling Piano event will be the signaraise money to fund their trip to New York ture fundraising event. this summer to play in the Cooperstown Two levels of tickets are available at Dreams Park tournament. different price points for the piano night. Playing in the Cooperstown tournaThe standard ticket includes one free ment, located at the home of the National drink and light food items while the VIP Baseball Hall of Fame, is a goal of many level has three drinks and preferred seatyoung baseball players. ing in addition to the food. There will also According to the team’s manager, be silent auctions, 50/50 contests and a Rich Woytowich, the tournament was cash bar. founded in 1999 to promote a high caliber The team is currently sponsored by of play for those 12 and under and to Flatwoods Consulting and Leaven allow them to experience the purity of Brewery, but sponsorship opportunities baseball as it was meant to be played. are still available. Tickets to the event can “I have had the honor of coaching be purchased at https://fyb-cooperstownmost of these young men since the age 2020.ticketleap.com/ of 7 in one form or the other,” said FYB is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, 100 perWoytowich, whose son is also a member cent volunteer run organization. To learn of the team. “The park runs tournaments more, visit for 11 weeks each summer with over 108 www.fishhawkyouthbaseball.org. teams from the United States and Canada competing each week.” In This In addition to the tournament, there is Issue a skill competition and opening and closing ceremonies where each player and coach competing gets inducted into the SCOUTING FOR FOOD........................PG 3 American Youth Baseball Hall of Fame. “It is truly a once in a lifetime experiCALENDAR OF EVENTS.......................PG 5 ence,” said Woytowich. TAMPA THEATRE EVENTS ..................PG 9 Players are chosen to participate in the team by the FYB Cooperstown comRUNNING OF THE BULLS .................PG 11 mittee after a tryout in the fall the year FLORIDA WILDLIFE WITH ALI ...........PG 13 before they attend. The 13 FishHawk players will attend the tournament from CANINE CABANA ADDS ON..............PG 15 Saturday to Friday, July 4-10, 2020. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT................PG 26 In order to attend the tournament, the team needs to raise $30,000. YEAR IN REVIEW .......................PGS 27‐36 “This number is based on the number of players and coaches on the team,
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Chicken Salad Chick, the nation’s only Southern-inspired, fast casual, chicken salad restaurant concept opened its fourth Tampa area location at 965 E. Bloomingdale Ave. on December 10 in Bloomingdale Square at the southwest corner of Bloomingdale Ave. and Bell Shoals Rd. The owners, Brad and Tammy Cochran, as well as General Manager Jennifer Warren and District Manager Elena Diacanu, welcomed guests at its friends and family event held on the weekend prior to the grand opening. The turnout was fantastic at the opening with well over 100 customers lining the store by 9 a.m. The first 100 customers received a free chicken salad each month for a year with customer number one receiving a free chicken salad every week. The Cochrans initially signed the letter of intent in July 2016 with the store scheduled to open mid-2017, but due to unexpected construction delays, they waited over three years for their plans to
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