David Equi can’t seem to catch a break. He opened a gleaming new factory in Glasgow for his eponymous luxury ice-cream business on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic, and has now missed out on the cutoff for government energy support by a single day.
Faced with a sharp rise in energy costs, he plans to shut down his blast freezer – a container that rapidly cools 40 pallets of ice-cream – this winter. “We’re turning that off and using our existing freezers just to save money, and will switch it back on in the summer. We’re just looking at the tiniest wee things where we can save.”
