The Workforce AI Index · Consumer Cyclical
Bloomin' Brands, Inc. (BLMN)
Restaurant operator, counted by role. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-28, filed 2026-02-25. Ranked 33 of the 39 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing counts approximately 64,000 Team Members with 500 at its support center, so the restaurants pattern carries nearly all of them (a).
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
64,000 employees as of 2025-12-28 (stated). The filing reports a U.S. segment as all of its revenue and workforce statistics for U.S. Team Members, without a count by country.
The filing: “As of December 28, 2025, we employed approximately 64,000 Team Members, of which approximately 500 are Restaurant Support Center employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 99% | By stated counts (a): the Team Members outside the 500 at the support center, about 63,500 in its Outback, Carrabba's, Bonefish and Fleming's restaurants. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 1% | By stated counts (a): the filing counts approximately 500 Restaurant Support Center employees, a stated corporate headcount under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 64,000 Team Members, down from 81,000, with about 500 at the Restaurant Support Center; 2025 turnover of 81% among U.S. hourly restaurant Team Members and 20% among restaurant management; about 90% of promotions to managing partner from within; the collector's first figure of 2,800,000 was a dollar amount.
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)10% now, 13% by 2028
- McDonald's Corporation (MCD, 150,000 employees)10% 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
7 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 7 sentences, as competition and risk: competitors using AI for customer insights, and AI tools and generative AI raising cybersecurity risks.
- “For example, our competitors may more successfully implement menu or technology initiatives, such as remote ordering, social media or mobile technology platforms that expedite or enhance the customer experience, or artificial intelligence to develop new customer insights.”
- “Risks Related to Information Technology, Privacy and Intellectual Property Cybersecurity breaches of confidential consumer, personal employee and other material information, the use of artificial intelligence tools and other threats to our technological systems may adversely affect our business.”
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of 24 Table of Contents BLOOMIN' BRANDS, INC. artificial intelligence technologies increases our cybersecurity risks, including generative artificial intelligence augmenting threat actors' technological sophistication to enhance existing or to create new malware.”
- “Additionally, artificial intelligence tools are increasingly being used in our industry.”
- “We are evaluating, and will continue to evaluate, the use of artificial intelligence tools throughout our organization.”
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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | 64,000 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-29 | 81,000 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 87,000 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-25 | 87,000 | 2023-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-26 | 82,000 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-27 | 77,000 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-29 | 94,000 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-30 | 93,000 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 94,000 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-25 | 97,000 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-27 | 100,000 | 2016-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-28 | 100,000 | 2015-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 101,000 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 93,000 | 2013-03-04 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's first figure was a charitable trust's payout in dollars; the human capital section's 64,000 Team Members is the count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001546417-26-000009, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Bloomin' Brands, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 11% now and 14% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Bloomin' Brands, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Bloomin' Brands, Inc. employ?
- 64,000 as of December 28, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Bloomin' Brands, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Restaurants and Other Eating Places; by those patterns the work is about 14% desk work, 22% people work and 65% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Bloomin' Brands, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 7 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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