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It's interesting that when labor costs shoot up (and let's be honest, that's what this is, you can get people to take those jobs if you pay enough) it's a 'shortage,' but we don't really call skyrocketing medical costs a 'medicine shortage' or skyrocketing rents and home prices a 'housing shortage.'

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They literally call high rents and prices "affordable housing shortages".

Maybe we should take a hint from the modifier here and call it a "cheap labor shortage."

More accurately an entry level labor shortage.

Per TFA:

> Low wages are the most common reason people cite for leaving food service work. But in one recent survey, more than half of hospitality workers who've quit said no amount of pay would get them to return.

Note that over half of survey respondents directly refute your claim of "Just pay more". Paying more will get some people in, but having your restaurant half or three-quarters staffed is still an unenviable position.

> more than half of hospitality workers who've quit

So this is only sampling existing workers who've quit, not potential workers who would enter the market for the right wages.

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