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Florida restaurant owner launches food truck

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February 24, 2023

A devastating fire isn't stopping one Pensacola, Florida restaurateur from staying in business.

Johnathan Patti, who owned the Gulf Coast Seafood Market and Restaurant that burned down last fall, is now offering his menu from a food truck at the eatery's location at 2250 W. Nine Mile Road, according to a Pensacola News Journal report.

"We went through Hurricane Sally, we went through the Nine Mile Road expansion where nobody wanted to drive (over here), we had COVID-19," Patti told the news outlet. "I'm looking at all these things, I'm just saying, 'God put people in our path.'"

The restaurant/market is on track to reopen by mid summer.