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Pre-pandemic numbers of guests are venturing to resort towns—but the rise of rental prices and a shortage of available properties is causing severe staffing shortages for restaurants. Here’s how they’re pivoting.
Eric Gowan and is republished here by permission. Mammoth Mountain closed on a stormy day in mid-March last season, but this time it was not a weather-hold. Chairlifts stopped spinning and skiers went home. Though she didn’t know it yet, Rachel Rainey had just worked her last shift at the restaurant that has supported her skiing lifestyle for the past 17 years. And that was just the beginning of the economic challenges she would face. The World Health Organization had declared a global pandemic. The NBA canceled their season and Tom Hanks announced he had tested positive for the coronaviru...