If you’ve ever played “Whac-A-Mole” on the boardwalk or at an arcade, you can get a sense of the frustration that both food and beverage processors and architecture/engineering/construction (AEC) firms are feeling in today’s economy—fix one problem, another pops up. Though the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are sinking from view, the havoc that the pandemic wreaked with the supply chain and the economy is popping up in both expected and unexpected ways. We expected a slow recovery from the pandemic—especially with supply chain issues and the economy, but for some AEC firms, unexpected surprises either slowed projects or opened new projects.