Family Favorites Awards - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!

🏆 Macaroni KID Family Favorite Awards 2025

🎉 Your 2025 Family Favorite WINNERS are here! 🎉

Nearly 1,500 votes were cast by local parents, grandparents, caregivers, and community supporters to choose this year’s Macaroni KID Family Favorites. These businesses were nominated and then voted in as the best of the best by our community. 💛

Every winner below is a local business, program, or organization that our readers love — places they trust with their families, their fun, their celebrations, and their everyday lives. Thank you for supporting them!

👏 Congratulations to all of our 2025 Family Favorite Award Winners!

We’ll be reaching out to each winning business next week with details about their prize package, winner graphics, and advertising credit.

One Celebration Across Three Communities

These awards bring together readers from all three of our editions — Winter Park, Apopka–Mount Dora, and Seminole County — into one big community celebration. 🥳

All nominees and winners are featured together in this combined guide, giving them recognition across our full Central Florida network.

🎁 What Winning Businesses Receive

• Digital Winner Graphic Pack — social media graphics and a website badge to proudly share your win.
• Yearlong Business Directory Listing — a featured listing that keeps your business in front of local families all year ($99 value).
• $75 Advertising Credit — use toward any Macaroni KID promotion package (valid for 6 months).
  1 Credit per winning business.
• Spotlight in this Winner Article & Social Posts — recognition across our three editions and social channels.
• Bonus Drawing: all winning businesses are entered to win a $300 Premium Advertising Package. The advertising package winner will be drawn on Monday and emailed.

🏅 Winners: Watch your inbox! We’ll email you next week with your graphics, directory details, and how to use your ad credit.

For Our Voters

One lucky voter will win a $25 gift card to the local business of their choice (based on availability). The winner will be randomly selected on Monday from eligible entries and emailed.

🎉 2025 Macaroni KID Family Favorite Award Winners

Browse the list below to see which local businesses Central Florida families chose as their favorites this year.

Note: Winners are listed in alphabetical order by category. Businesses may serve multiple areas across Winter Park, Apopka–Mount Dora, and Seminole County.

💌 Thank You for Supporting Local!

Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted, and congratulations again to our 2025 Family Favorite winners. When you visit these businesses, make sure to tell them Macaroni KID sent you!