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April 13, 2021
Petoskey businesses are short staffed, and the summer season still has yet to arrive.
President of the Petoskey Chamber of Commerce Nikki Devitt said after all of the shutdowns and restrictions, it’s an important summer for the area. “What we’re seeing now is the concern is greater even then it was last summer because already job ads are staying open and they’re not being filled,” she said.
Devitt said well over half of Petoskey businesses including almost all of those in the hospitality industry are short staffed, including Beards Brewery who will have to close for the next 10 days. “Cases in the area are spiking pretty heavily and pretty out of control and we had some staff exposed at an after hours event so at that point we’re already so thin that it’s kind of our only option at this point,” said Ben Slocum, owner of Beards Brewery.