Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.

“Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.” is a core task performed by Butchers and Meat Cutters. Among the occupation's 12 rated tasks, workers place it 9th by importance (#4 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.

• Prepare foods or beverages. 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

• Prepare and place meat cuts and products in display counter to appear attractive and catch the shopper's eye. · importance 4.7
• Wrap, weigh, label, and price cuts of meat. · importance 4.6
• Cut, trim, bone, tie, and grind meats, such as beef, pork, poultry, and fish, to prepare in cooking form. · importance 4.5
• Receive, inspect, and store meat upon delivery to ensure meat quality. · importance 4.5
• Estimate requirements and order or requisition meat supplies to maintain inventories. · importance 4.3
• Record quantity of meat received and issued to cooks or keep records of meat sales. · importance 4.2
• Supervise other butchers or meat cutters. · importance 4.1
• Cure, smoke, tenderize, and preserve meat. · importance 4.0
• Negotiate with representatives from supply companies to determine order details. · importance 3.9
• Shape, lace, and tie roasts, using boning knife, skewer, and twine. · importance 3.9
• Total sales, and collect money from customers.

See all tasks on the Butchers and Meat Cutters 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-8785,
  title  = {Prepare special cuts of meat ordered by customers.},
  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-8785}
}