Estimate supplies, ingredients, or staff requirements for food preparation activities.

Estimate supplies, ingredients, or staff requirements for food preparation activities. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 4 occupations and seen in 5 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Determine resource needs of projects or operations. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 5 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 5 (100%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.004% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Forecast staff, equipment, and supply requirements, based on a master menu. · First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Determine food and beverage costs and assist in implementing cost control procedures. · Dietetic Technicians · importance 4.4 · exposure with tools
• Estimate amounts and costs of required supplies, such as food and ingredients. · Chefs and Head Cooks · importance 4.3 · exposure with tools
• Estimate ingredients and supplies required to prepare a recipe. · First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers · importance 4.2 · direct LLM exposure
• Estimate expected food consumption, requisition or purchase supplies, or procure food from storage. · Cooks, Restaurant · importance 4.0 · exposure with tools

Occupations that perform this

• First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
• Dietetic Technicians
• Chefs and Head Cooks
• Cooks, Restaurant

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  title  = {Estimate supplies, ingredients, or staff requirements for food preparation activities.},
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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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