Summer
Heat wave lets ice sale collapse
The higher the temperatures, the better the ice sale, you might think. But from a certain threshold, this is no longer true.
The extreme heat wave of the past few days, according to the Association of Italian feeding ice manufacturers in Germany (uniteis), has the ice sales collapse. “From 30 degrees, people just want to drink.
It is better for ice sale 25 or 26 degrees, “said uniteis spokeswoman Annalisa Carnio of the” Rheinische Post “. If it is much warmer,” water and soft drinks are more in demand than ice cream, “emphasized Carnio. The ice cream buyers therefore hoped for good, but not too hot summer weather.
Heat and minimum wage as a “problem”
Carnio sees the expected increase in the minimum wage from next year as “a problem”. According to the association, expenditure for staff accounts for around a third of the costs of an ice cream parlor. Compared to the previous year, the ice prices have hardly increased this season. “We wanted to keep a reasonable price,” said Carnio.
Germany has been groaning under an extreme heat wave for days, which reached its climax on Wednesday and was replaced by the first summer thunderstorms.
The German Weather Service (DWD) had predicted temperatures of 34 to 38 degrees, locally to close to the 40-degree mark. By Wednesday afternoon, the values at individual weather stations rose to the range from 36 to 37 degrees, as the DWD announced on the Internet.
In Germany, values of more than 40 degrees, even in very pronounced heat waves, have so far rarely been reached. The temperature ever officially confirmed so far was registered on July 25, 2019 with 41.2 degrees of two measuring stations in North Rhine-Westphalia.
AFP
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Source: Stern
