Clean and polish counters, shelves, walls, furniture, or equipment in food service areas or other areas of restaurants and mop or vacuum floors.

“Clean and polish counters, shelves, walls, furniture, or equipment in food service areas or other areas of restaurants and mop or vacuum floors.” is a core task performed by Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 5th by importance (#20 most important). About 93% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areas. in Performing General Physical Activities

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Serve ice water, coffee, rolls, or butter to patrons. · importance 4.5
• Run cash registers. · importance 4.5
• Wipe tables or seats with dampened cloths or replace dirty tablecloths. · importance 4.5
• Scrape and stack dirty dishes and carry dishes and other tableware to kitchens for cleaning. · importance 4.5
• Set tables with clean linens, condiments, or other supplies. · importance 4.5
• Greet and seat customers. · importance 4.5
• Clean up spilled food or drink or broken dishes and remove empty bottles and trash. · importance 4.4
• Maintain adequate supplies of items, such as clean linens, silverware, glassware, dishes, or trays. · importance 4.4
• Locate items requested by customers. · importance 4.3
• Fill beverage or ice dispensers. · importance 4.3
• Carry food, dishes, trays, or silverware from kitchens or supply departments to serving counters. · importance 4.3
• Perform serving, cleaning, or stocking duties in establishments, such as cafeterias or dining rooms, to facilitate customer service. · importance 4.3
• Carry trays from food counters to tables for cafeteria patrons. · importance 4.2
• Replenish supplies of food or equipment at steam tables or service bars. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers page.

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
• “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  = {Clean and polish counters, shelves, walls, furniture, or equipment in food service areas or other areas of restaurants and mop or vacuum floors.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-11175}
}