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I don't see any of these places actually struggling though. Sure it takes longer to get mcdonalds but like I said I've never seen a closed mcdonalds even during snowstorms. The employees ALWAYS make it work. I used to work at a Tim Hortons which was "short staffed" but you should have seen the stacks of applications we had pouring in. They were like small town phone books. Almost daily interviews too. But nobody else got hired the entire 8 months I was there. Management had "help wanted" signs up, but they clearly didn't want help very badly. The "worker shortage" is nothing but pure bullshit on bullshit on bullshit. Literally nothing is true about it, not even what you're saying that the jobs aren't worth it. Even the worst jobs have tons and tons of people competing for them.
I can't speak for McDonalds I don't go there. Can't recall any of the chains closing for worker shortages or anything, but the mom and pop shops definitely did have worker shortages, I know some of the workers personally and they took jobs for more money in other industries. I'm pretty sure McDonalds paid more than these places during covid. I haven't seen any signs in well over a year so I'd agree that there is no shortage anymore. I can confirm that several grocery stores were hiring people between 2020 and 2022. A lot of older people retired early or left public facing jobs.
I'm not denying that some businesses choose not to hire people on purpose, I'm sure that happened too. But I'd argue that Business owners doing that are also probably terrible to work for and people probably end up quiting.