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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Lots of Americans are traveling, eating out, doing all the things that were off-limits during much of the last year. For many businesses, this is the payoff they ve been - waiting for. But just as demand is surging, employers are having trouble finding enough workers to keep up. NPR s Scott Horsley reports.
SCOTT HORSELY, BYLINE: This summer should have been a bonanza for Aaron Baumhackl. He runs Solstice Wood Fire Pizza in Hood River, Ore., where the last pandemic restrictions were lifted just this week.
AARON BAUMHACKL: The demand is like we ve never seen before. People are clamoring to Hood River to get out of the city. It would have been a record-breaking year.