Its not at all imo. Franchised businesses are not in the habit of employing low skill workers as a public service. This data is interacting with both covid effects and infrastructure upgrade/rollover - in other words, it takes a while for companies to adopt affordable touch screen ordering systems and its been phased in at a ton of non-fast food (at least in my area) over the same period of time. Local health grocery store has touch screen ordering at their deli, as well as simultaneously going cashless. Most coffee shops too. Look at most international airports - almost all the kiosks have one or no attendants now.

The causality is raising the minimum wage pushed business to do this sooner rather than later. this is why, as per the study, California lost more jobs than states that didn’t raise the minimum wage