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Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
Facilitate food service. Clean tables; remove dirty dishes; replace soiled table linens; set tables; replenish supply of clean linens, silverware, glassware, and dishes; supply service bar with food; and serve items such as water, condiments, and coffee to patrons.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Run cash registers.Mostly human for now
- 02Serve ice water, coffee, rolls, or butter to patrons.Mostly human for now
- 03Scrape and stack dirty dishes and carry dishes and other tableware to kitchens for cleaning.Mostly human for now
- 04Wipe tables or seats with dampened cloths or replace dirty tablecloths.Mostly human for now
- 05Set tables with clean linens, condiments, or other supplies.Mostly human for now
- 06Greet and seat customers.Mostly human for now
- 07Clean up spilled food or drink or broken dishes and remove empty bottles and trash.Mostly human for now
- 08Maintain adequate supplies of items, such as clean linens, silverware, glassware, dishes, or trays.Mostly human for now
- 09Locate items requested by customers.Mostly human for now
- 10Fill beverage or ice dispensers.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
0%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 14% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 93% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Run cash registers.
- Serve ice water, coffee, rolls, or butter to patrons.
- Scrape and stack dirty dishes and carry dishes and other tableware to kitchens for cleaning.