# Other Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers

> SOC minor group 35-9000 within Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations — 4 detailed occupations.

- **SOC minor group:** 35-9000
- **Canonical URL:** https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/other-food-preparation-and-serving-related-workers
- **Frame:** "AI exposure" means task overlap, not jobs lost. Figures below are aggregates over the group's member occupations, each traced to a named public dataset.

## Scale & pay

- **Employment (BLS OEWS, May 2024):** 1,510,410.
- **Median wage:** $33,170.
- **Projected growth (BLS 2024–34):** 2.2%.
- **Annual openings:** 298.7.

## AI exposure

- **AI task-overlap (mean across member occupations):** 23rd percentile (Low) — Eloundou GPT-overlap + Felten AIOE; task overlap, not automation.

## Member occupations

- Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-9011-00) — $32,670; 0th percentile overlap
- Dishwashers (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-9021-00) — $33,670; 0th percentile overlap
- Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-9031-00) — $30,380; 0th percentile overlap
- Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other (https://singulariki.com/roles/role-35-9099-00) — $34,830

## Sources

- **O*NET** (30.3) — U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS)** (May 2024) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS Employment Projections** (2024–2034) — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **“GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.)** (arXiv 2303.10130) — OpenAI / academic. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130
- **AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE)** (Felten, Raj & Seamans) — academic. https://github.com/AIOE-Data/AIOE

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_Generated from Singulariki's joined dataset; data snapshot 2026-06-02T20:31:11.516731+00:00. https://singulariki.com/occupation-groups/other-food-preparation-and-serving-related-workers_