GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. (GENK)
Korean barbecue restaurants, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 31, 2026. Ranked 233 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
13%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
13%
Employees, annual report
2,700
Leading staffing pattern
Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now13%
- End of 202713%
- End of 202813%
- End of 203013%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 87%
- Becomes checking a model's work 9%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states approximately 2,700 employees at December 31, 2025, 375 of them full-time, and describes one restaurant business, 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
2,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes restaurants regulated under U.S. federal, state and local law and nothing abroad; recorded as 1 without a stated figure, flagged.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 2,700 employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 100% | The filing describes a restaurant company whose approximately 2,700 employees, 375 of them full-time, staff its restaurants, so the whole workforce is read at restaurants and other eating places by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 2,700 employees at December 31, 2025, of whom 375 are full-time; about 37% female; no collective bargaining agreements; existing employees typically recruit new team members.
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
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2,700 | 2026-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,700 | 2025-03-10 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,500 | 2024-03-06 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. operations, without stating it.
- No count by function; one pattern by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-134555, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 13% now and 13% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce GEN Restaurant Group, 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 GEN Restaurant Group, Inc. employ?
- 2,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Restaurants and Other Eating Places; by those patterns the work is about 13% 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 GEN Restaurant Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2023 to 2025 name it in 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. 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 November 9, 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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