NorthStar

Occupations/35-3023.00

Fast Food and Counter Workers

Perform duties such as taking orders and serving food and beverages. Serve customers at counter or from a steam table. May take payment. May prepare food and beverages.

High school

Usually a high school diploma, plus some experience or short training.

AI automation risk

65%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

42%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

68%

Higher automation risk

A day in this job

  • Mostly routine

    Request and record customer orders, and compute bills, using cash registers, multi-counting machines, or pencil and paper.

  • Task

    Accept payment from customers, and make change as necessary.

  • Task

    Serve customers in eating places that specialize in fast service and inexpensive carry-out food.

The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.

Core tasks

  1. 01Accept payment from customers, and make change as necessary.
  2. 02Serve customers in eating places that specialize in fast service and inexpensive carry-out food.
  3. 03Request and record customer orders, and compute bills, using cash registers, multi-counting machines, or pencil and paper.
  4. 04Balance receipts and payments in cash registers.
  5. 05Communicate with customers regarding orders, comments, and complaints.
  6. 06Serve food, beverages, or desserts to customers in such settings as take-out counters of restaurants or lunchrooms, business or industrial establishments, hotel rooms, and cars.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks3.83
  • Degree of automation2.43
  • Time sitting1.69
  • Originality (ability)2.00
  • Conflict situations3.23
  • Hands-on objects/tools2.97
  • Outdoors / weather2.36
  • Disease exposure1.43
  • Decision freedom4.39

Top abilities

  • Speech Recognition3.00
  • Speech Clarity3.00
  • Oral Expression3.00
  • Oral Comprehension3.00
  • Near Vision3.00
  • Trunk Strength2.88
  • Time Sharing2.88
  • Manual Dexterity2.75

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension2.38
  • Active Listening3.00
  • Writing2.00
  • Speaking2.62
  • Mathematics2.00
  • Science1.00
  • Critical Thinking2.50
  • Active Learning1.88
  • Learning Strategies2.00
  • Monitoring2.88

CIP matches

99.9999NO MATCH

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