Chefs & Cooks
Food Services
SOC 35-2014
~2.6M US jobs
Median $35,000
OFI
8.8
transformation pressure
Robotics automates some prep; craft, taste & kitchen coordination stay human. — AIOE; Eloundou et al. 2023; modeled
Task transformation under adoption
Share of tasks automated / augmented / human, projected via Bass-diffusion adoption. Scenario, not a prediction.
Exposure profile
Representative tasks
- Prepare & cook food
- Plan menus
- Manage kitchen
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We model task transformation, not job loss. OFI and its projections are scenario estimates grounded in published AI-exposure frameworks — model outputs, not predictions of employment outcomes.