When the lines are popping on the Alyeska slopes, the lines are most likely long at the local coffee shop in Girdwood, The Grind.
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“We’re very much dependent on the weather, just like the mountain is,” O’Leary said. “Sometimes if it snows a lot, I might see it go down just because it’s harder to get to and from Anchorage to here because the roads but at the same time, more snow also means more people to go ride.” “The 10th is when the mountain opened and then that’s when definitely we saw more. You know it probably increased maybe 50% on average days. And I’d say, anywhere between 70 and 90% on like weekend days,” O’Leary said.
“Yeah, we are short staffed but we, you know, we make up with it,” O’Leary said. “It’s a difference between waiting two minutes for your mocha versus five minutes for your mocha.”
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