First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.
1,223,240 people do this job in the US. $44,080 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 56%
- 0%
- 44%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
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, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 42%. Today's estimate: 48%.
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 . 26 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train workers in food preparation, and in service, sanitation, and safety procedures.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Develop departmental objectives, budgets, policies, procedures, and strategies.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 9% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | 43%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Analyze operational problems, such as theft and wastage, and establish procedures to alleviate these problems.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 1.3 h38 min to 3.3 h | 90%Half by now | |
| Forecast staff, equipment, and supply requirements, based on a master menu.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 1.3 h38 min to 2.5 h | 97%Half by now | |
| Specify food portions and courses, production and time sequences, and workstation and equipment arrangements.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 50 min17 min to 1.7 h | 96%Half by now | |
| Assess nutritional needs of patients, plan special menus, supervise the assembly of regular and special diet trays, and oversee the delivery of food trolleys to hospital patients.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 6% | 1.7 h33 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Supervise and participate in kitchen and dining area cleaning activities.Done daily by most who do it. | 6% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform personnel actions, such as hiring and firing staff, providing employee orientation and training, and conducting supervisory activities, such as creating work schedules or organizing employee time sheets.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 1.7 h50 min to 4.2 h | 82%Half by now | |
| Control inventories of food, equipment, smallware, and liquor, and report shortages to designated personnel.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform various financial activities, such as cash handling, deposit preparation, and payroll.Done daily by most who do it. | 5% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Recommend measures for improving work procedures and worker performance to increase service quality and enhance job safety.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min17 min to 1.7 h | 96%Half by now | |
| Develop equipment maintenance schedules and arrange for repairs.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 1.7 h38 min to 4.2 h | 72%Half by now |
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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Where this job works
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