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Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
Mostly untouched
AI barely touches this work so far. The BLS expects 5.3% more of these jobs by 2035, faster than the 3.5% average.
- Rank
- Joint #685 of 785 jobs, by how much of the work AI does
- US jobs, 2025 to 2035
- +5.3% All jobs: +3.5%
- Median US pay
- $33,980 a year, 2025
- People doing it
- 546,600 in the US, with about 95,300 openings a year
The work, 12 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
Still yours: Provide food or beverage services30%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Stock supplies or products17%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas14%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Move materials, equipment, or supplies9%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
Still yours: Replenish inventories of materials, equipment, or products5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Provide information to guests, clients, or customers5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 75 conversations, and it got them there 91% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
Still yours: Escort others5%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists5%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 98 conversations, and it got them there 84% of the time. In this job the work is hands-on, so AI can only assist.
AI helps with this: Execute financial transactions4%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 1,073 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
AI helps with this: Prepare foods or beverages4%
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 workpieces, finished products, or other objects2%
Barely appears in AI conversations: fewer than 1 in 2,000.
AI helps with this: Prepare mixtures or solutions1%
People asked AI for help with this in about 1 in 714 conversations, and it got them there 93% of the time.
2025 to 2035
Ten years from now.
For every 100 of these jobs in 2025, the BLS projects 105 in 2035. Across all US jobs, about 104.
About 95,300 openings a year, from growth and from people who retire or move on.
Nearby
Where your skills travel.
The jobs closest to this one. None of them is much less exposed.
- Shares 49% of the workWaiters and Waitresses20% AI does, against 0% here+2% by 2035 · $35,230 · No formal credential
- Shares 49% of the workFast Food and Counter Workers12% AI does, against 0% here+5.8% by 2035 · $31,200 · No formal credential
- Shares 47% of the workFood Servers, Nonrestaurant7% AI does, against 0% here+4.5% by 2035 · $35,360 · 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 0.06, higher than 16% 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, 35-9011 · BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
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