"It’s nuts what’s happening to us…. I said, ‘I’ve got to do something.’"

Great ice cream alone wasn’t enough to keep the lights on at Little Havana’s famous ice cream shop.

The sales at Azucar, the Calle Ocho ice cream store with Latin flavors in its gelato and a towering ice cream cone sculpture outside, were 25 percent of what they were a year ago in August. Coronavirus had kept away the tourists that brought life to the heart of Miami’s old Cuban neighborhood.

So Azucar owner Suzy Batlle got an idea: Open a second store to subsidize the first.

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