BJ's Restaurants, Inc. (BJRI)

Casual dining restaurants with a small support center. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 30, 2025, filed March 2, 2026. Ranked 84 of the 94 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A restaurant company whose filing counts its restaurant team members and its support staff separately, so the restaurant pattern carries 99% and the stated support count the rest.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 11% now, 13% at the end of 2027, 14% at the end of 2028, 14% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 14% desk work, 22% people work and 65% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 86% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 10% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

22,230 employees as of December 30, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The sections read state no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 30, 2025, we employed approximately 22,000 team members at our 219 restaurants. We also employed approximately 230 team members at our Restaurant Support Center in Huntington Beach, California and in field supervision positions around the country.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: About 22,000 team members at 219 restaurants and about 230 at the Restaurant Support Center and in field supervision; about 18% of hourly restaurant team members work full-time as the Affordable Care Act defines it; no unions or collective bargaining arrangements are in place.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Restaurants and Other Eating Places, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Starbucks (SBUX, 381,000 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028
• Yum China Holdings, Inc. (YUMC, 290,000 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028
• Darden (DRI, 209,931 employees)11% now, 13% by 2028
• McDonald's Corporation (MCD, 150,000 employees)11% now, 13% by 2028
• Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG, 130,301 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028
• Texas Roadhouse, Inc. (TXRH, 101,000 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028
• Brinker International, Inc. (EAT, 85,003 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL, 74,500 employees)11% now, 14% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence is a risk factor listing use of artificial intelligence among the threats, with cyberattacks and malware, to its electronic information systems.

• “Our electronic information systems, including our back-up systems, and those of our third-party providers, are subject to damage or interruption from power outages, cyberattacks, computer and telecommunications failures, computer viruses, use of artificial intelligence, "phishing" attacks, ransomware, malware, internal or external security breaches, catastrophic events such as fires, earthquake...”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20251median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The headcount is the sum of the stated restaurant and support center counts (rule 2).
• The U.S. share is not stated in the sections read.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-083331, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.