Poor Weather Bad For Cape Businesses
Local Restaurants 'Suffering'
POSTED: 5:07 pm EDT June 19,
2009
UPDATED: 5:53 pm EDT June 19,
2009
BOSTON -- Summer officially begins on Sunday, but the rainy weather has some Cape Cod business owners worried.NewsCenter 5's Amalia Barreda reported that the bad weather on the Cape has been a double edged sword for Taylor Rental of North Falmouth. The good news is that the tent rental business is great. The bad news is that working conditions are terrible."Inventory gets wet and then you have to dry it out. It's a lot more work," said Justine Schlosser, of Taylor Rental.At the office, Schlosser's wife has been forced to turn business away.Schlosser and his crew rushed all day to get tents up for Falmouth's annual Arts Alive festival, which is likely going to get soaked this weekend."We can't do a rain day because we have 60 performers, and you can't reschedule 60 performers," said Judy Day, of the Arts Alive Festival.Across the Cape, beaches and waterfront restaurants are empty. Parking lot attendants are idle. Bill Zammer owns two waterfront restaurants."Those are suffering," he said. "It's atypical."Jamie Alcock, who owns a sport fishing boat, was hoping for a profitable Father's Day weekend."Our regular bottom fishing customers, they bring rain coats. But families, it is a totally different story. We were supposed to have families this weekend, but they won’t come with the way the weather is."
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