Gus regularly meets adults who remember buying ice creams from him as children – who now arrive with families of their own.<\/p>\n
He said the community “was amazing”.<\/p>\n
“The kids are really amazing too. They’re really respectful, they’re not rude at all and they’re very, very polite. Credit to the parents.”<\/p>\n
Gus’s tips and tricks to keep cool while working, include a wet flannel on his head and drinking plenty of water – but he also recommends a cup of tea.<\/p>\n
Asked whether he remembered a similar heatwave, he said he thinks back to 1976, “but this time, it’s a different level. Much hotter and more consistent. It’s not one day, it’s one week, it’s two weeks.<\/p>\n
“We’re just soldiers and we’re trying to do the best that we can. <\/p>\n
“We drink loads of water and try to serve our ice cream and give everybody a smile.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gus regularly meets adults who remember buying ice creams from him as children – who now arrive with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}