Help Wanted signs greet visitors to grocery stores, retail shops and restaurants from the Bourne and Sagamore bridges all the way to Provincetown.
Restaurants can’t find enough cooks and servers. Hotels and motels can’t find enough front desk clerks and cleaners. Landscapers can’t find the men and women they need to cut grass, rake leaves and tend to gardens.
And as the summer season fast approaches, the situation has only grown more concerning for business owners.
Rod Sroczenski, the general manager of the Bayside Resort Hotel in West Yarmouth. said the hotel and restaurant owners and landscapers he knows are all in the same boat.