Select, train, and supervise workers who plan, prepare, and serve meals.

“Select, train, and supervise workers who plan, prepare, and serve meals.” is a supplemental task performed by Dietitians and Nutritionists. Among the occupation's 28 rated tasks, workers place it 19th by importance (#10 most important). About 63% 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.

• Train others on health or medical topics. in Training and Teaching Others
• Supervise personnel activities. in Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

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 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Assess nutritional needs, diet restrictions, and current health plans to develop and implement dietary-care plans and provide nutritional counseling. · importance 4.6
• Evaluate laboratory tests in preparing nutrition recommendations. · importance 4.5
• Counsel individuals and groups on basic rules of good nutrition, healthy eating habits, and nutrition monitoring to improve their quality of life. · importance 4.5
• Advise patients and their families on nutritional principles, dietary plans, diet modifications, and food selection and preparation. · importance 4.5
• Incorporate patient cultural, ethnic, or religious preferences and needs in the development of nutrition plans. · importance 4.5
• Consult with physicians and health care personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of patient or client. · importance 4.3
• Record and evaluate patient and family health and food history, including symptoms, environmental toxic exposure, allergies, medication factors, and preventive health-care measures. · importance 4.3
• Develop recipes and menus to address special nutrition needs, such as low glycemic, low histamine, or gluten- or allergen-free. · importance 3.8
• Coordinate diet counseling services. · importance 3.7
• Manage quantity food service departments or clinical and community nutrition services. · importance 3.5
• Make recommendations regarding public policy, such as nutrition labeling, food fortification, or nutrition standards for school programs. · importance 3.5
• Monitor food service operations to ensure conformance to nutritional, safety, sanitation and quality standards. · importance 3.4
• Develop curriculum and prepare manuals, visual aids, course outlines, and other materials used in teaching. · importance 3.4
• Inspect meals served for conformance to prescribed diets and standards of palatability and appearance. · importance 3.4

See all tasks on the Dietitians and Nutritionists 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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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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