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Cooks, Short Order
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 5.2% fewer of these jobs by 2035.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- -5.2% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $35,880 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 138,700 in the US, with about 17,400 openings a year
The work, 8 activities
The job description, marked up.
Every activity in this job, the biggest first. Tap a line for the evidence.
- deleAI does this
- +AIAI helps
- stetStill yours
AI helps with this: Prepare foods or beverages35%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 859 conversations, and it got them there 91% of the time.
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas17%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Stock supplies or products12%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Execute financial transactions10%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,073 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
Still yours: Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures8%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Provide food or beverage services6%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Purchase goods or services4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 214 conversations, and it got them there 91% of the time.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 95 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
Even shrinking, it should still see about 17,400 openings a year as people retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
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- Shares 57% of the workCooks, Restaurant2% AI does, against 0% here+12.1% by 2035 · $37,390 · No formal credential
The wire
On the wire.
Nothing filed about this job yet. The latest from the Work front:
How to read this file.
deleAI does this. In US Bing Copilot conversations from January to September 2024, AI itself performed the activity, completed it and made a real difference often enough to count.
+AIAI helps. People brought the activity to AI as their own goal, and it usually got them there.
stetStill yours. It barely shows up in AI use, AI rarely finishes it, or in this job it needs hands.
Shares are weighted by how much each activity matters in the job, using O*NET. Microsoft’s own AI applicability score for this job is 0.14, higher than 49% of jobs.
Doing an activity is not doing a job. The researchers behind this data warn against reading it as job loss, and so do we. It is US data; the shape of the work travels.
Sources: Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025) · O*NET OnLine, 35-2015 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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