COVID stimulus: PPP loans helped Cape Cod restaurants stay in business
HYANNIS — When Gov. Charlie Baker shut down the state on March 14 to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, Cape Cod Beer owners Todd and Beth Marcus closed their doors and furloughed most of their staff — while continuing to pay their benefits. The couple then regrouped to consider the new business landscape. “My husband and I had a conversation. Is summer 2020 going to happen?” Beth Marcus recalled. “We decided it would.” What essentially had been a bar business, with most people standing to drink beer, became a sit-down affair with food and drink offered under a tent outsi...