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Cooks, Restaurant vs Food Batchmakers

Side-by-side · O*NET · BLS · AI-exposure research · Anthropic Economic Index

A factual, source-backed comparison of Cooks, Restaurant and Food Batchmakers on the dimensions both occupations carry. Every figure is a position within an independent published dataset — not a verdict on which job is better, safer, or more “future-proof.”

Cooks, Restaurant Food Batchmakers
Median pay · BLS OEWS
$36,830
$40,790
Employment · BLS OEWS
1,452,130
171,660
AI exposure (percentile) · task overlap, not automation
60th pct
19th pct

At a glance

Dimension Cooks, Restaurant Food Batchmakers
Median pay $36,830 $40,790
Employment 1,452,130 171,660
Employment outlook (2024–34) · BLS projection Growing fast (+14.9%) About average (+6.9%)
Annual openings · BLS projection 250,700 24,200
Typical education · O*NET Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not. Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
AI exposure · published exposure studies Moderate · 60th pct Low · 19th pct
Global GenAI gradient · ILO ISCO-08 · via crosswalk 29th pct · 18% of tasks 30th pct · 19% of tasks
Observed AI use · Anthropic Economic Index Automation-leaning (49.8%) Automation-leaning (26.3%)
Mostly remote-capable · Dingel–Neiman No No

Pay and employment are BLS OEWS estimates; outlook and openings are BLS 2024–2034 projections; AI exposure and observed-use figures come from separate research and reflect exposure and usage, not predictions that either job will disappear. Compare like with like.

Skills

Shared: Near Vision, Food Production, Manual Dexterity, Problem Sensitivity, English Language, Speaking, Critical Thinking, Monitoring, Oral Comprehension, Oral Expression, Information Ordering, Perceptual Speed, Selective Attention, Arm-Hand Steadiness, Finger Dexterity, Control Precision, Trunk Strength, Speech Recognition, Active Listening, Deductive Reasoning, Category Flexibility, Reading Comprehension, Customer and Personal Service, Coordination, Judgment and Decision Making, Written Comprehension, Operations Monitoring, Inductive Reasoning.

Specific to Cooks, Restaurant

  • Time Management
  • Time Sharing
  • Visual Color Discrimination
  • Speech Clarity
  • Active Learning
  • Visualization
  • Multilimb Coordination
  • Far Vision

Specific to Food Batchmakers

  • Public Safety and Security
  • Production and Processing
  • Education and Training
  • Administration and Management
  • Mechanical
  • Mathematics
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Operation and Control

Knowledge, skills & abilities O*NET rates as important for each occupation. “Shared” are common to both; the columns list what is distinctive to each (top by the order O*NET surfaces).

Tools & technology

Shared: Office suite software .

Specific to Cooks, Restaurant

Specific to Food Batchmakers

Full profiles

This page is a summary. See the complete source-backed profile for Cooks, Restaurant or Food Batchmakers — tasks, the full skill graph, tools, work context, preparation, wages by percentile, industries, AI exposure and the AI work map.

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Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Cooks, Restaurant vs Food Batchmakers." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans; ILO / Gmyrek et al. GenAI exposure gradient 2025; IBS O*NET-SOC ↔ ISCO-08 occupation crosswalk 2022; Frey & Osborne (2013) frey-osborne-automation; Dingel & Neiman (2020) dingel-neiman-workathome. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/compare/cooks-restaurant-vs-food-batchmakers

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Cooks, Restaurant vs Food Batchmakers. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/compare/cooks-restaurant-vs-food-batchmakers

BibTeX 
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