Alva Review-Courier -

With unemployment at a nine-year low of 4.7 percent and the fear of a crackdown on immigration, legal and otherwise, a shortage of fast-food workers has materialized.

In the past, a future of “flipping burgers” was considered a dead-end option of last resort, but that is changing. Michael Harms, executive director of a restaurant research firm, says, “Every employee, whether they’re 17 or 40, has options in fast food.” You might say we have a food-fight over workers!

How will fast-food corporate America, which employs thousands of part-time and full-time restaurant workers, keep staffing, both...