Of course.
I’m sitting here at a McDonald’s in a wealthy area. I’ve had the district manager tell me he can’t get people. The teens are wealthy enough that they don’t need the part-time jobs.
The market will force his wages higher, just to keep the place staffed.
This is also a reason retail stores are closing: many can’t keep staffed, and so customers stop going. And store managers working 60-90 hours per week eventually figure out that their hourly rate would be better as a store employee.
The only problem with paying high wages for what is essentially an entry level little or no brains needed position is the higher wage greatly expands the choice of the employer on who he hires. The poor kid who lacks much in the way of knowledge and of course experience would have a chance for a job paying $8-10 per hr but doesn’t make the cut for $15 per hr.
Idiots in Congress do not seem to get that forcing higher than prevailing market wages on employers causes jobs to be lost as well as precluding the very people for whom those jobs were created in the beginning (before stupidity took over)to be bypassed for better educated and more experienced job seekers.