Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws.

“Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws.” is a core task performed by Bartenders. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 11th by importance (#10 most important). About 98% 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.

• Stock supplies or products. in Handling and Moving Objects

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

• Clean glasses, utensils, and bar equipment. · importance 4.8
• Collect money for drinks served. · importance 4.8
• Check identification of customers to verify age requirements for purchase of alcohol. · importance 4.7
• Balance cash receipts. · importance 4.7
• Clean bars, work areas, and tables. · importance 4.7
• Attempt to limit problems and liability related to customers' excessive drinking by taking steps such as persuading customers to stop drinking, or ordering taxis or other transportation for intoxicated patrons. · importance 4.6
• Take beverage orders from serving staff or directly from patrons. · importance 4.6
• Serve wine, and bottled or draft beer. · importance 4.5
• Plan, organize, and control the operations of a cocktail lounge or bar. · importance 4.5
• Serve snacks or food items to customers seated at the bar. · importance 4.4
• Supervise the work of bar staff and other bartenders. · importance 4.4
• Mix ingredients, such as liquor, soda, water, sugar, and bitters, to prepare cocktails and other drinks. · importance 4.3
• Order or requisition liquors and supplies. · importance 4.1
• Slice and pit fruit for garnishing drinks. · importance 4.0

See all tasks on the Bartenders 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.

@misc{singulariki-task-18735,
  title  = {Stock bar with beer, wine, liquor, and related supplies such as ice, glassware, napkins, or straws.},
  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-18735}
}