Portillo's Inc. (PTLO)

Restaurant chain, 7,890 team members. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025, filed February 24, 2026. Ranked 181 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

A restaurant chain whose filing states 7,890 team members and nothing by kind of work, so the whole workforce is read 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: 11% 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

7,890 employees as of December 28, 2025 (stated). The filing describes only U.S. restaurants, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.

The filing: “Our team member base, as of December 28, 2025, consisted of 7,890 team members.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 7,890 team members as of December 28, 2025 (8,512 a year earlier); hourly team members on a flexible scheduling system; Restaurant Support Center staff on a hybrid model; a record 91% survey participation.

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

12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says failing to maintain competitive digital systems, including its growing use of AI in operations, could cost it guests, and that governmental regulation of AI is evolving.

• “Form 10-K Summary 79 Exhibit Index Signatures Table of Contents Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information This Annual Report on Form 10-K ("Form 10-K") contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 ("PSLRA"), which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause actual...”
• “If we do not maintain and innovate competitive digital systems, including our growing use of AI in our operations, our business and sales may be adversely affected as we lose guests to competitors.”
• “Additionally, the cybersecurity and privacy requirements, including the regulation of AI, imposed by governmental regulations are evolving.”
• “The rapid development and integration of AI and emerging technologies into our processes poses risks to our business.”
• “The use of AI technologies within our business processes must be implemented and managed effectively and ethically to avoid outputs that are false, biased, or inconsistent with our values and strategies.”

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 20248median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. restaurants; it states no count by country.
• The plants and the support center have no count and stay inside the restaurant pattern; the data service's segment table (Gift Card 100%) is not the business mix.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001871509-26-000012, 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.