While some workers who were sent home or opted not to work during the height of the crisis have returned, there are more jobs available at hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions this season than employees to fill them.
Staff has since begun offering some types of their classic sandwiches, such as turkey and Swiss and baked ham and provolone, made daily and available for sale in a refrigerated display.
Fifty years later, The Cheese Shop and Fat Canary in Merchants Square remain iconic Peninsula small businesses, but even they are having to make adjustments amid historic staffing storages, including putting their well-known sandwiches on hiatus.