Dining room or cafeteria attendant
Helps with food service by cleaning and setting tables, clearing dishes, restocking supplies, and serving items like water and coffee.
Will AI replace dining room or cafeteria attendant jobs?
AI changes jobs more often than it replaces them. How much AI can help with this work: Low. More AI overlap than 16 in 100 jobs. AI touches a small part of this work. Most of the job happens with your hands, your body or in person. 0% of this job’s working time is already spent on tasks people bring to AI at work (Anthropic Economic Index). Based on Microsoft research on real AI use at work, matched to the tasks of each job in O*NET.
What stays human
- Serve ice water, coffee, rolls, or butter to customers
- Run cash registers
- Scrape and stack dirty dishes and carry them to the kitchen
10-year outlook · USA
Expected change in the number of these jobs by 2035: +5.3%. Typical pay: $33,980 a year. US Bureau of Labor Statistics. German figures differ, but the direction is usually similar.
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