OAKLAND PARK, Fla. – “It’s a rare opportunity to own a storied piece of South Florida,” says franchise brokerage firm owner Andrew Cagnetta of Transworld Business Advisors in Fort Lauderdale about the restaurant/dinner revue establishment Mai-Kai that’s up for sale. It was the floor show though, not the food, that had it tops on the tourism roster as part of the “don’t-miss-while-in Fort Lauderdale” bucket list right up there with visiting the famous beach. Bob and Jack Thornton opened Mai-Kai in 1956, a very different Fort Lauderdale back then. “The Mai-Kai has been a family-run business since its inception,” said Tiare Thornton Bugarin, the granddaughter of one of the founders. “From choreographing the Polynesian show to overseeing, a descendant of the Mai-Kai’s founders has always been involved.