{"id":353223,"date":"2026-07-26T23:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353223\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T23:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:53:13","slug":"local-businesses-gear-up-for-727-day-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353223\/","title":{"rendered":"Local businesses gear up for 727 Day events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 Restaurants, businesses and residents across Pinellas County are marking 727 Day with weekend events celebrating the region and its area code.<\/p>\n<p>One of the businesses taking part is Driftwood Cafe in St. Petersburg, where customers were served breakfast, lunch and homemade ice cream as part of the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Manager of Driftwood Cafe Ashley Nester said, &#8220;727 is an opportunity for us to give the community a little bit of a deal and opportunity to come out enjoy the somewhat hot weather but it brings everybody together it&#8217;s not just ice cream it&#8217;s our way to celebrate the community celebrate St. Pete and just something we can do a little bit back and everybody comes out and has a good time ice cream and a great view.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The annual event recognizes the 727 area code, which serves much of Pinellas County, including St. Petersburg and Clearwater.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses across the area are hosting promotions, themed menus and community events leading up to Monday&#8217;s official 727 Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ADAM.WALSER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida memory care facility files for bankruptcy after $1.5M court judgment<\/p>\n<p>A Pasco County memory care facility filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy weeks after a judge ordered it to pay a $1.5 million award to a resident&#8217;s family in a wrongful death lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Florida memory care facility files for bankruptcy after $1.5M court judgment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETE, Fla. \u2014 Restaurants, businesses and residents across Pinellas County are marking 727 Day with weekend events&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[140837,144393,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-353223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-727-day","tag-businesses-st-pete","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}