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Estes Park restaurant grapples with seasonality

ESTES PARK — As we ate dinner in Estes Park on a recent Tuesday evening, I asked our waitress if one of the owners was around so that I might ask him or her a few questions.
"That˜s her over there, bussing tables," she said, pointing to a woman scurrying around the room with alternating dirty, then clean, dishes. So it goes for some in the business of restaurant ownership. You don˜t always get to walk around with a glass of wine schmoozing up the patronage. Sometimes you have to do the work, too.
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