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First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Resolve customer complaints regarding food service.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Train workers in food preparation, and in service, sanitation, and safety procedures.Mostly human for now
- 03Assign duties, responsibilities, and work stations to employees in accordance with work requirements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Present bills and accept payments.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Perform various financial activities, such as cash handling, deposit preparation, and payroll.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Supervise and participate in kitchen and dining area cleaning activities.Mostly human for now
- 07Recommend measures for improving work procedures and worker performance to increase service quality and enhance job safety.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Specify food portions and courses, production and time sequences, and workstation and equipment arrangements.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Control inventories of food, equipment, smallware, and liquor, and report shortages to designated personnel.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Observe and evaluate workers and work procedures to ensure quality standards and service, and complete disciplinary write-ups.AI could speed this up a lot
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 loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
51%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 37% 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 60% 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.
- Train workers in food preparation, and in service, sanitation, and safety procedures.
- Supervise and participate in kitchen and dining area cleaning activities.