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Food Servers, Nonrestaurant
Serve food to individuals outside of a restaurant environment, such as in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, residential care facilities, or cars.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Place food servings on plates or trays according to orders or instructions.Mostly human for now
- 02Clean or sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, or facilities.Mostly human for now
- 03Monitor food distribution, ensuring that meals are delivered to the correct recipients and that guidelines, such as those for special diets, are followed.Mostly human for now
- 04Examine trays to ensure that they contain required items.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Load trays with accessories, such as eating utensils, napkins, or condiments.Mostly human for now
- 06Take food orders and relay orders to kitchens or serving counters so they can be filled.Mostly human for now
- 07Monitor food preparation or serving techniques to ensure that proper procedures are followed.Mostly human for now
- 08Remove trays and stack dishes for return to kitchen after meals are finished.Mostly human for now
- 09Carry food, silverware, or linen on trays or use carts to carry trays.Mostly human for now
- 10Record amounts and types of special food items served to customers.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
13%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 86% 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.
- Place food servings on plates or trays according to orders or instructions.
- Clean or sterilize dishes, kitchen utensils, equipment, or facilities.
- Monitor food distribution, ensuring that meals are delivered to the correct recipients and that guidelines, such as those for special diets, are followed.