TEXAS \u2014 The first day of class may be just around the\u00a0corner,\u00a0but we are still\u00a0in\u00a0the peak of summer. People are dealing with Texas heat across the board, including businesses.<\/p>\n
Even with\u00a0high\u00a0temperatures,\u00a0there\u2019s\u00a0a long line\u00a0outside the doors of Franklin Barbecue.\u00a0Long time customers like\u00a0Dontae\u00a0Blakemore wanted\u00a0to get in one more bite before the\u00a0restaurant temporarily\u00a0closes\u00a0up shop.<\/p>\n
Starting next\u00a0week,\u00a0Franklin\u00a0Barbecue is putting out the fires for their longstanding\u00a0summer closure tradition\u00a0to give\u00a0their\u00a0employees a vacation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can’t imagine anywhere else in the world I\u00a0would get better barbecue than Franklin\u2019s,\u201d Blakemore says, though he admits\u00a0sometimes the heat\u00a0keeps him from getting\u00a0more.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0an interesting dynamic because barbecue is considered a summer treat…In reality,\u00a0it’s\u00a0so heavy\u00a0that\u00a0you appreciate\u00a0it\u00a0a little bit more in the fall or\u00a0winter,\u201d Blakemore said.<\/p>\n
Even those in the business of the\u00a0other-worldly\u00a0are adjusting for the long haul of \u201chot\u201d hitting most of\u00a0Texas\u00a0right now. Austin\u00a0Ghost\u00a0Tours\u00a0have\u00a0guided walks through the oldest areas in town, sharing both historic and supernatural stories of the past\u00a0for 30 years.\u00a0This year, tour guide\u00a0Monica\u00a0Ballard\u00a0says\u00a0she\u2019s\u00a0had to make some changes due to the\u00a0soaring\u00a0temps.<\/p>\n
“With\u00a0the triple-digit heat, naturally, that heat is retained\u00a0a lot even after the sun goes down. So oftentimes, I will\u00a0mix\u00a0up the stops that we make, where we meet, places that we go to,\u201d Ballard says. \u201cLast\u00a0Friday,\u00a0was\u00a0incredibly\u00a0hot,\u00a0decided to take my group uptown here because there seem to be more places to\u00a0stop off and get\u00a0a bottled\u00a0water or a sports drink.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says even though\u00a0this summer\u2019s foot traffic\u00a0has\u00a0also been slower,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0nothing they can’t\u00a0handle.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The first day of class may be just around the\u00a0corner,\u00a0but we are still\u00a0in\u00a0the peak of summer.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5175,5201,132,134,133,910,1570,223,27,1569,835,172],"class_list":["post-401050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-abigail-vaerewyck","tag-app-weather","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-business","tag-ctv","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}