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What can hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop switch to?

The closest match is fast food and counter workers, paying about 0% more at the median. 10 jobs in all use similar skills with less of the shift touched by AI or robots.

Time card for fast food and counter workers: 58m of an 8-hour shift touched by AI or robotsTime card: Fast Food and Counter Workers →

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What can hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop switch to? AI or robots touch about 3h 42m of a typical 8-hour shift for hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop, nearly all of it on tasks AI or robots have done on their own somewhere. The jobs below use many of the same skills, and less of their day is touched today. The closest fit is fast food and counter workers: 58m touched, with median pay about the same.

Matches come from O*NET's ratings of the skills, knowledge and work activities each job uses. "To build up" lists the skills each option rates as clearly more important than hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop do today. "Touched" is time on tasks with documented AI use or robots working in real workplaces. Treat these as starting points: pay, openings and requirements differ by state.

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HumanWith AIAIRobot
  1. Fast Food and Counter WorkersClose skills · 58m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $31k · +5.8% by 2035 · little or no preparationShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps
  2. Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender HelpersClose skills · 1h 19m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $34k · +5.3% by 2035 · little or no preparationShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps
  3. Maids and Housekeeping CleanersClose skills · 1h 51m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $36k · +0.6% by 2035 · little or no preparationShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps
  4. Agricultural Products Graders and SortersRelated skills · 0m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $36k · -3.4% by 2035 · little or no preparationShared skills: Installation, Quality Control AnalysisNo big skill gaps
  5. Amusement and Recreation AttendantsRelated skills · 2h 40m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $32k · +3.7% by 2035 · little or no preparationShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps

With more training

  1. Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room AttendantsClose skills · 1h 46m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $36k · +6.4% by 2035 · high school diploma, some trainingShared skills: Service OrientationTo build up: Speaking
  2. Waiters and WaitressesClose skills · 17m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $35k · +2% by 2035 · high school diploma, some trainingShared skills: Service OrientationTo build up: Service Orientation
  3. Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket TakersClose skills · 2h 17m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $33k · +0.9% by 2035 · high school diploma, some trainingShared skills: Service Orientation, NegotiationNo big skill gaps
  4. OrderliesClose skills · 1h 3m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $38k · +4% by 2035 · high school diploma, some trainingShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps
  5. Nonrestaurant Food ServersClose skills · 1h 4m touched (vs 3h 42m) · $35k · +4.5% by 2035 · high school diploma, some trainingShared skills: Service OrientationNo big skill gaps

Before you switch

See the full time card for hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop first: many tasks there still need a person, and learning AI tools for the rest can be its own way forward. For pay where you live, open any job above and pick your state.