Jack in the Box Inc. (JACK)
Quick service restaurants, 4,440 restaurant employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 28, 2025, filed November 19, 2025. Ranked 176 of the 199 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
12%
End of 2028
19%
Employees, annual report
5,046
Leading staffing pattern
Restaurants and Other Eating Places
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now12%
- End of 202717%
- End of 202819%
- End of 203019%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 80%
- Becomes checking a model's work 14%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing counts 4,440 restaurant employees, 53 field managers and 553 corporate staff, so the split is counted.
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: 12% now, 17% at the end of 2027, 19% at the end of 2028, 19% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 19% desk work, 22% people work and 59% 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 80% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 14% 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
5,046 employees as of September 28, 2025 (stated). The filing describes company-operated restaurants nationwide and no operations abroad (recorded as 1, flagged).
The filing: “As of September 28, 2025, for our combined brands, we had 5,046 employees, of whom 4,440 were restaurant employees, 553 were corporate management and staff, and 53 were field operations management.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 89% | The filing counts 4,440 restaurant employees and 53 in field operations management (a), who run the company-operated Jack in the Box and Del Taco restaurants. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 11% | The filing counts 553 corporate management and staff at its restaurant support center (a), a stated corporate count under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Most employees are paid hourly except managers and certain support center positions; about 84% of restaurant employees are part-time; franchisees' employees are not counted; the headcount fell from 8,168 a year earlier.
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
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 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
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-28 | 5,046 | 2025-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-29 | 8,168 | 2024-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-01 | 9,523 | 2023-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-02 | 12,083 | 2022-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-03 | 5,300 | 2021-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-27 | 5,200 | 2020-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-29 | 5,200 | 2019-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 5,200 | 2018-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-01 | 16,600 | 2017-11-30 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-02 | 22,200 | 2016-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-27 | 20,700 | 2015-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-28 | 19,150 | 2014-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-29 | 19,150 | 2013-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 22,100 | 2012-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-02 | 25,700 | 2011-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-03 | 29,300 | 2010-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-27 | 35,700 | 2009-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-28 | 42,700 | 2008-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 42,500 | 2007-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-01 | 44,300 | 2006-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-02 | 44,600 | 2005-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-03 | 45,000 | 2004-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-28 | 45,730 | 2003-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-29 | 44,100 | 2002-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 43,600 | 2001-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2000-10-01 | 40,200 | 2000-12-14 | 10-K |
| 1999-10-03 | 37,800 | 1999-12-02 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-27 | 32,600 | 1998-11-27 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-28 | 29,000 | 1997-11-20 | 10-K |
| 1996-09-29 | 24,800 | 1996-12-24 | 10-K |
| 1995-10-01 | 25,785 | 1995-12-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-10-02 | 26,170 | 1994-12-30 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Franchised restaurants' employees are not the company's (rule 8); only the company-operated restaurants' people are counted.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only restaurants nationwide; it states no count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000807882-25-000072, 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 Jack in the Box Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 12% now and 19% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Jack in the Box 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 Jack in the Box Inc. employ?
- 5,046 as of September 28, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 28, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Jack in the Box 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 19% desk work, 22% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Jack in the Box Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 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 October 20, 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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