Black Rock Coffee Bar, Inc. (BRCB)

Drive-thru coffee bars, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 4, 2026. Ranked 229 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states approximately 2,800 team members at December 31, 2025 across stores, roasting facilities and a corporate office with no count by place, so the whole workforce is read at restaurants and other eating places by description.

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: 13% now, 13% at the end of 2027, 13% at the end of 2028, 13% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 13% 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 87% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 9% 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

2,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the excerpt gives no count by country.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 2,800 team members across our stores, roasting facilities, and corporate office.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 2,800 team members at December 31, 2025 across stores, roasting facilities and the corporate office; none in a union; a Career Path pipeline from Barista to Shift Lead, Assistant Store Lead, Store Lead and Multi-Store Lead, with Area Managers and Directors of Operations overseeing 20 to 55 stores.

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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

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

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its risk factors: competitors with greater resources may innovate with new technologies including artificial intelligence, fictitious media content produced by generative AI could bring negative publicity, and deepfakes heighten the risk of social engineering attacks.

• “Some of our competitors also have substantially greater financial and other resources to devote to innovation in products, technology, and market and consumer data analytics, including integration, use, or offering of new technologies, including artificial intelligence ("AI").”
• “Negative publicity may adversely affect us, regardless of whether the allegations are substantiated or whether we are determined to be responsible, and it may be difficult to address negative publicity, including as a result of fictitious media content (such as content produced by generative AI technologies or bad actors).”
• “The risk of unauthorized circumvention of our security measures or those of the third parties with whom we work has been heightened by advances in computer and software capabilities and the increasing sophistication of actors who employ complex techniques, including, without limitation, "phishing" or social engineering incidents (including deep fakes, which are becoming increasingly difficult t...”
• “Additionally, any integration of AI into our or any service providers' operations, products or services is expected to pose new or unknown cybersecurity risks and challenges.”
• “Additionally, Confidential Information of the Company or our guests could be leaked, disclosed, or revealed as a result of or in connection with the use of AI technologies by our employees, personnel, or third parties with whom we work.”

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 U.S. share is not stated.
• The roasting facilities and corporate office are uncounted and fold into the stores pattern under rule 5.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-014380, 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.