Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Mia Bella Scalini Family Italian Restaurant Expands, Adds New Menu Entrees
“A family Italian restaurant was perfect for this area,” said Ron Schwartz, one of the principals of the restaurant along with famous chef and entrepreneur Donato Mastontoni. “Our customer base has been growing fast and during dinner hours we’ve had to turn customers away,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz expanded the restaurant seating to some 80 seats and tables.
The new menu entrees feature delectable pastas, chicken and veal dishes and Italian subs.
“We’re the perfect restaurant for lunch and dinner,” Schwartz said. Mia Bella Scalini Family Restaurant also features traditional classic NY style and gluten-free pizzas.
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For more information, please contact: Scalini’s Pizza and Pasta, 407-291-9349, info@scalinispizza.com; Ron Schwartz, Owner, Scalini’s Pizza and Pasta, 407-342-3648
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Cuhaci & Peterson Architects Awarded Contract to Design Pizza Hut Restaurant facilities in Georgia, South Carolina
Jed Downs, president of Cuhaci & Peterson Architects, said Yum Brands, Inc., the Louisville, Ky. Company that owns the Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s brands and ranks as the largest restaurant company in the world, awarded the contracts.
Both restaurant facilities will total 1,200 square feet of space, Downs said.
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For more information, contact:
Lonnie Peterson, Chairman Cuhaci & Peterson Architects, LLC, 407-661-9100
Jed Downs, President Cuhaci & Peterson Architects, LLC, 407-661-9100
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142
Friday, August 14, 2009
Data Transfer Solutions, LLC Playing Big Role Shaping GIS Technology as an Everyday Household Appliance
AVALON PARK, Fla. - Lead GIS software architect Brian Noyle at Data Transfer Solutions, LLC, which provides professional asset management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software engineering and web development services to local and state government agencies from offices in eight U.S. cities, is playing a leading role in a worldwide effort to reshape GIS technology into a more practical, user-friendly and powerful tool for consumers.
“As web mapping technologies become more ubiquitous through the efforts of vendors like Google and Microsoft,” Noyle said, “it becomes incumbent upon the software development community to satisfy the increasing expectations of users regarding how easily and how fast they get information. Our goal is to produce software systems that are as ubiquitous and easy to use as Google, Twitter, and the iPhone,” he said.
“Put simply, traditional GIS technology has long enabled the user to locate anything with a spatial context on a map, and perform analyses related to the data” Noyle explained. “At first, GIS provided benefits to government agencies, land managers, infrastructure providers and technology specialists who need to know where assets and their customers are located, where impacts to the landscape are occurring, or other specific scientific questions,” Noyle explained.
“Initially, GIS applications were developed from the engineer’s perspective, and it took a fair amount of expertise to utilize the technology.”
Now, Noyle is a leader in a worldwide movement to make GIS mapping technology accessible to a wider audience, including anyone with a cell phone. The potential, Noyle said, is enormous.
When power lines go down during a hurricane, repair crews need to know what has been impacted and how to get there quickly. Both police officers and pizza delivery vans need to know their way around unfamiliar neighborhoods without having to learn GIS technology, Noyle said.
“In the developing world, this new approach to distributed mapping technology can better the lives of millions of people in just a few years,” Noyle explained. “Right now, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a program in Africa that links small plot farmers using cell phones to a data base that collects information on irrigation, fertilizing, planting and harvesting decisions.
The end result will be better productivity and more food for hungry populations. But the key benefit is to achieve these ends at affordable costs, without a huge government bureaucracy, while providing information to users in a paradigm that they already understand” Noyle said.
Data Transfer Solutions engineers have developed a mapping application that tracks the spread of influenza virus. “It’s global in scope, fully internationalized, and highly specialized---it does one thing very, very fast,” Noyle said. “Rather than providing generalized GIS toolsets to our users, we simply ingest data and show disease incidence on map for the individuals around the world who need this information.”
Noyle and Dave Bouwman, chief technology officer at Data Transfer Solutions, lead the DTSAgile division, which focuses on developing cutting-edge geospatial solutions concentrated on usability and performance. (http://dtsagile.com/staff/Dave) and (http://dtsagile.com/staff/Brian).
Noyle and Bouwman made big waves recently when they presented papers during the ESRI 2009 Developer Summit in Palm Springs, Calif. ESRI, Inc., ranks as the world’s foremost developer of GIS software, and conference participants included most of the major corporate and government GIS users. (http://www.dtsagile.com/Media/Presentations)
“Our whole focus was on how to bring GIS mapping into the 21st century and make it accessible to everyone,” Noyle said.
They were a smash hit.
Almost immediately, ARCUser Magazine---a leading U.S. industry journal on GIS mapping technology---commissioned an article outlining Noyle and Bouwman’s design and development philosophies and two additional articles ran in the same issue addressing the summit presentations. Directions Magazine, a leading professional journal in the GIS field, then commissioned a series of articles to expand on Noyle and Bouwman’s usability ideas.
A.M. “Trey” Fragala III, ACP, chief operating officer at Data Transfer Solutions, headquartered at Orlando’s Avalon Park, said Noyle and Bouwman are rising quickly to the top ranks of GIS technologists.
“Dave Bouwman and Brian Noyle are creating a major impact on GIS mapping technology with their developments,” Fragala explained. “The technology revolution under way in the field of GIS mapping will have profound effects on the ability of public agencies to manage public assets efficiently and effectively, and on end users---average citizens---to create new ways to address age-old problems,” Fragala said.
“The solutions we are developing are playing a major role in an important technological evolution,” Fragala said.
For more information, contact:
A.M. “Trey” Fragala, III, AICP, Chief Operating Officer, Data Transfer Solutions, 3680 Avalon Park East Blvd., Suite 200, Orlando, 32828; 407-382-5222; tfragala@edats.com;
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142 lvershelco@aol.com
Monday, May 4, 2009
Scalini’s Pizza ‘N Pasta Introduces “Two-Timer” Offer For Free Topping
ORLANDO, Fla. - Scalini’s Pizza ‘N Pasta, the gluten-free pizzeria which opened its first location in the Dr. Phillips area recently, is introducing a special “Two-Timer” offer in May.
Ron Schwartz, a principal of the restaurant, said patrons on Fridays and Saturdays will get a coupon good for a free extra topping on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
“Pizza is fun food and we want to make it even more fun,” said Schwartz.
Scalini’s Pizza ‘N Pasta at 5106 Dr. Phillips Blvd. offers traditional New York style and gluten-free pizza with a wide variety of special toppings that are healthier and more nutritious, said Schwartz who hopes to open additional locations throughout Central Florida.
For more information, please contact:
Scalini’s Pizza 'N Pasta, 407-291-9349, info@scalinispizza.com
Ron Schwartz, Owner, Scalini’s Pizza 'N Pasta, 407-342-3648
Larry Vershel, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-461-3780 or 644-4142
