i’ve noticed less teens working for several decades in socal.
once asian immigrant families get their businesses going they want their kids on the education job all day.
generally, as people become more wealthy they don’t expect their kids to work.
as bill handel of radio kfi am 640 famously said: “my kids are not flipping burgers!”
They do have tattooed, pierced, ill educated and rude teens working there; lots of them. The word was that you could only be hired there is you knew someone who had worked there or was working there.
So she took a job as a waitress at a small tearoom and worked for her father as a researcher and transcribing.