RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. (RICK)
Nightclubs and restaurants, entertainers contracted. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed March 19, 2026. Ranked 209 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
20%
Employees, annual report
3,444
Leading staffing pattern
Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages)
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.
- Now18%
- End of 202720%
- End of 202820%
- End of 203020%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 80%
- Becomes checking a model's work 16%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
A table counts 3,444 employees, 3,348 in operations and 96 corporate, across nightclubs and Bombshells restaurants, with the entertainers outside as independent contractors.
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: 18% now, 20% at the end of 2027, 20% at the end of 2028, 20% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 20% desk work, 26% people work and 54% 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), 16% 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
3,444 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing describes only U.S. locations (clubs and restaurants in Minnesota, Arizona and other states), so the U.S. share is recorded as 1, flagged.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, we had the following employees: Operations Managers Non-Managers Corporate Total Hourly 60 2,874 8 2,942 Salaried 365 49 88 502 425 2,923 96 3,444.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) | 70% | By description (c): the nightclubs, where alcoholic beverages are 44% of revenue and service revenues 35%, employ most of the 3,348 operations staff; entertainers are independent contractors and are left out under rule 8. |
| Restaurants and Other Eating Places | 27% | By description (c): the Bombshells restaurants, food and merchandise being 14% of revenue, with more people per dollar than the clubs, so a share above the revenue line. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 3% | Count (a): 96 corporate employees in the filing's table (8 hourly, 88 salaried), a stated corporate count under rule 6, kept under rule 5 because it is counted. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,942 hourly and 502 salaried; 425 operations managers, 2,923 non-managers and 96 corporate; entertainers are self-employed independent contractors (at two clubs they may elect to be commissioned employees); no union.
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One sentence, a risk factor: the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may heighten cybersecurity risks by making attacks harder to detect, contain and mitigate.
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies may also heighten our cybersecurity risks by making cyber-attacks more difficult to detect, contain, and mitigate.”
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 3,444 | 2026-03-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 3,613 | 2024-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,778 | 2023-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 3,219 | 2022-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 2,529 | 2021-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 2,074 | 2020-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 2,200 | 2020-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 2,050 | 2018-12-31 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 2,130 | 2018-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 2,000 | 2016-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 2,150 | 2015-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 1,750 | 2014-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 1,750 | 2013-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 1,400 | 2012-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 1,200 | 2011-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 1,200 | 2010-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 1,000 | 2009-12-17 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector found no count; the headcount is the total of the filing's employee table, 3,444.
- Independent contractor entertainers are left out under rule 8; the filing says it has plans should they have to become employees.
- The club and restaurant split is by description from revenue lines; the filing counts employees by status, not by business.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-019804, 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 RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 20% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce RCI Hospitality Holdings, 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 RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 3,444 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up RCI Hospitality Holdings, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages); by those patterns the work is about 20% desk work, 26% people work and 54% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does RCI Hospitality Holdings, 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, 0 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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