Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers
Facilitate food service. Clean tables; remove dirty dishes; replace soiled table linens; set tables; replenish supply of clean linens, silverware, glassware, and dishes; supply service bar with food; and serve items such as water, condiments, and coffee to patrons.
542,750 people do this job in the US. $33,980 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
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Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
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At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 23 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perform serving, cleaning, or stocking duties in establishments, such as cafeterias or dining rooms, to facilitate customer service.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 19% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Clean and polish counters, shelves, walls, furniture, or equipment in food service areas or other areas of restaurants and mop or vacuum floors.Done daily by most who do it. | 8% | 29 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Maintain adequate supplies of items, such as clean linens, silverware, glassware, dishes, or trays.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 8% | 13 min4 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Run cash registers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 17 min4 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Carry food, dishes, trays, or silverware from kitchens or supply departments to serving counters.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Set tables with clean linens, condiments, or other supplies.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 10 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Scrape and stack dirty dishes and carry dishes and other tableware to kitchens for cleaning.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 8 min3 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Wipe tables or seats with dampened cloths or replace dirty tablecloths.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 7 min3 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Fill beverage or ice dispensers.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 7 min3 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Stock cabinets or serving areas with condiments and refill condiment containers.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min4 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Serve food to customers when waiters or waitresses need assistance.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min3 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Clean up spilled food or drink or broken dishes and remove empty bottles and trash.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 3% | 7 min3 min to 17 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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