Kura Sushi USA, Inc. (KRUS)
Revolving sushi restaurants, mostly non-exempt. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025, filed November 6, 2025. Ranked 234 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
3,900
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%
Kura Sushi USA states about 3,900 employees, 200 exempt and the rest non-exempt, at its revolving sushi restaurants in the United States, read whole at restaurants.
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
3,900 employees as of August 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes restaurants in the United States only and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.
The filing: “As of August 31, 2025, we had approximately 3,900 employees, of whom 200 were exempt employees and the remainder were non-exempt employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 100% | Stated counts (a) inside one business: about 3,700 non-exempt and 200 exempt employees of 3,900 at revolving sushi restaurants across the United States, restaurants, NAICS 7225, the SIC 5812 business, with the office staff inside the exempt count and no corporate count stated. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 3,900 employees, 200 exempt and the rest non-exempt (about 95%); no union; the count has grown from 1,030 in fiscal 2020 with new restaurants; office employees have work-from-home flexibility; fiscal year ends August 31.
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
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence is a risk factor: as consumers adopt new technologies such as AI, it may need to enhance its systems or modify its strategies to remain relevant.
- “Additionally, as technology systems continue to evolve and as consumers adopt new technologies, such as the use of artificial intelligence, we may need to enhance our systems or modify our strategies in order to remain relevant in our industry and to our guests.”
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 20242median 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.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 3,900 | 2025-11-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-31 | 3,300 | 2024-11-08 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-31 | 3,219 | 2023-11-09 | 10-K |
| 2022-08-31 | 2,100 | 2022-11-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-31 | 1,800 | 2021-11-12 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-31 | 1,030 | 2020-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-31 | 1,400 | 2019-11-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of U.S. restaurants, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-269773, 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 Kura Sushi USA, 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 Kura Sushi USA, 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 Kura Sushi USA, Inc. employ?
- 3,900 as of August 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Kura Sushi USA, 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 Kura Sushi USA, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 2 and 1 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 8, 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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