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> “We literally do not have enough cooks to operate and after months of continuous hiring, training, begging, pleading and getting creative, we have a tiny, loyal, incredible team of individuals at their breaking point and in desperate need of help,” the owners wrote.

I'm genuinely not being facetious: why don't they pay more? Isn't that the solution to a labor shortage in a free market?

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Modern economics seems to believe that CEOs can only be motivated by more and more money. But low income people get lazy and spoiled if they make more money.

Because they’d rather complain than pay better wages. It’s easier to shove the problem onto the local government than it is to have them pay their own wages. This is common among all industries/businesses. Have the masses pay - not your business.

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