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Then maybe restaurants aren't a viable business?

I know it sounds crazy because we've had them for so long, but maybe it's not sustainable to have so many of them?

In any case, this seems like a great area to let the market figure it out. If restaurants go out of business the owners and employees will find something else to do.

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> In any case, this seems like a great area to let the market figure it out. If restaurants go out of business the owners and employees will find something else to do.

I'm not sure more corporate concentration would be a better situation.

Your tone is quasi-facetious, but you do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars, so...now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

I don't think my comment implies more corporate concentration.

And even if it does, why should restaurants be held to a higher standard than other sectors? It's fine for Google and Facebook to buy up everything, but restaurants can't consolidate?

I do think that if it's persistently difficult to find workers for non-distortionary reasons, prices will likely increase gradually with whatever attendant effects there are from that.

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