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Business News: Stanley Cup At Dive Bar, First Watch Opens New HQ

In other Tampa Bay-area business news: Grow Financial offers free items at select eateries, Beans & Barlour makes world record attempt.

Head coach Jon Cooper celebrated the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stanley Cup win by bringing the famous trophy to the Drift Inn on Bradenton Beach.
Head coach Jon Cooper celebrated the Tampa Bay Lightning’s Stanley Cup win by bringing the famous trophy to the Drift Inn on Bradenton Beach. (Christine Claxton)

TAMPA BAY, FL — Here's the latest restaurant, retail and other business news from the Tampa Bay region that you might have missed this week.

Try These Inspired Dishes; Grow Financial Will Pick Up The Tab

Grow Financial is treating the community to free items at select eateries as part of its continuing effort to support small businesses.

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Champions Ice Beer Made With Ice From Stanley Cup Final Game

Tampa Bay Lightning fans can celebrate the team's Stanley Cup championship win with a limited-edition brew made with ice from a Stanley Cup Final game at Amalie Arena rink. Coors Light used ice collected from the rink at Amalie Arena during the Stanley Cup Final to brew Champions Ice. The beer will be available on tap in Tampa area bars and in 32-ounce collectable crowlers.

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Meet Stanley; Giraffe Born On Night Of Lightning's Big Win: Video

Busch Gardens Tampa is celebrating the birth of Stanley the giraffe, born on July 7, the same night the Tampa Bay Lighting won their back-to-back Stanley Cup championship.

Art In Common Places Brings Poetry, Visual Art To Ordinary Spaces

Collaborations by artists, writers are displayed throughout Sarasota at everyday venues like laundromats, shops, restaurants, apartments.

Egg-Cracking Ceremony Opens First Watch's New Bradenton HQ

The brunch restaurant chain First Watch opened its new corporate headquarters in the University Town Center area with a ceremonial cracking of the eggs Thursday. The newly constructed 39,000-square-foot standalone building is located just off Cooper Creek Boulevard behind the BJ's shopping center at 8725 Pendery Place.

Lightning Coach Brings Stanley Cup To Bradenton Beach Dive Bar

Coach Jon Cooper celebrated the Tampa Bay Lightning's Stanley Cup win by bringing the famous trophy to the Drift Inn on Bradenton Beach.

Beans & Barlour Aim For World Record On National Ice Cream Day

Beans & Barlour and Brugal 1888 Rum will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most people scooping ice cream simultaneously to celebrate National Ice Cream Day on Sunday. Dairy Queen China holds the record with 270 people who dished up the sweet treat in June 2015.

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