# Cooks, Short Order

> Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.
- **Entity Type:** role
- **Schema Version:** role.v1
- **Soc Code:** 35-2015.00
- **Summary:** Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.

## Aliases

- Cook
- Grill Cook
- Line Cook
- Short Order Cook
- Broiler Cook
- Deli Cook (Delicatessen Cook)
- Food and Beverage Attendant
- Pizza Maker
- Prep Cook (Preparation Cook)
- Snack Bar Cook
- Barbecue Cook
- Bed and Breakfast Cook (B&B Cook)

## Tasks

| Text | Type | Iwa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clean food preparation equipment, work areas, and counters or tables. | Core | 4.A.3.a.1.c |
| Grill and garnish hamburgers or other meats, such as steaks and chops. | Supplemental | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Restock kitchen supplies, rotate food, and stamp the time and date on food in coolers. | Core | 4.A.3.a.2.ak |
| Complete orders from steam tables, placing food on plates and serving customers at tables or counters. | Core | 4.A.3.a.1.o |
| Plan work on orders so that items served together are finished at the same time. | Core | 4.A.4.b.4.j |
| Grill, cook, and fry foods such as french fries, eggs, and pancakes. | Core | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Perform food preparation tasks, such as making sandwiches, carving meats, making soups or salads, baking breads or desserts, and brewing coffee or tea. | Core | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Perform general cleaning activities in kitchen and dining areas. | Core | 4.A.3.a.1.c |
| Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements. | Core | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Order supplies and stock them on shelves. | Supplemental | 4.A.3.a.2.ak |
| Accept payments, and make change or write charge slips as necessary. | Supplemental | 4.A.4.c.1.c |

## Emerging Tasks


## Activities

| Name | Iwa |
| --- | --- |
| Store supplies or goods in kitchens or storage areas. | 4.A.3.a.2.ak |
| Maintain food, beverage, or equipment inventories. | 4.A.4.c.3.a |
| Prepare foods for cooking or serving. | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Prepare hot or cold beverages. | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Prepare breads or doughs. | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Clean food preparation areas, facilities, or equipment. | 4.A.3.a.1.c |
| Coordinate timing of food production activities. | 4.A.4.b.4.j |
| Cook foods. | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Take customer orders. | 4.A.4.c.1.c |
| Serve food or beverages. | 4.A.3.a.1.o |
| Arrange food for serving. | 4.A.3.a.2.c |
| Order materials, supplies, or equipment. | 4.A.4.c.3.e |
| Process customer bills or payments. | 4.A.4.c.1.c |

## Capabilities

| Name | Family | Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food Production | knowledge | 3.98 |
| Oral Comprehension | ability | 3.5 |
| Near Vision | ability | 3.5 |
| Customer and Personal Service | knowledge | 3.41 |
| Trunk Strength | ability | 3.25 |
| English Language | knowledge | 3.21 |
| Reading Comprehension | essential_skill | 3.12 |
| Active Listening | essential_skill | 3.12 |
| Time Management | transferable_skill | 3.12 |
| Information Ordering | ability | 3.12 |
| Manual Dexterity | ability | 3.12 |
| Speaking | essential_skill | 3 |
| Coordination | transferable_skill | 3 |
| Service Orientation | transferable_skill | 3 |
| Problem Sensitivity | ability | 3 |
| Selective Attention | ability | 3 |
| Time Sharing | ability | 3 |
| Arm-Hand Steadiness | ability | 3 |
| Finger Dexterity | ability | 3 |
| Control Precision | ability | 3 |
| Critical Thinking | essential_skill | 2.88 |
| Monitoring | essential_skill | 2.88 |
| Oral Expression | ability | 2.88 |
| Category Flexibility | ability | 2.88 |
| Far Vision | ability | 2.88 |
| Speech Clarity | ability | 2.88 |
| Written Comprehension | ability | 2.75 |
| Deductive Reasoning | ability | 2.75 |
| Extent Flexibility | ability | 2.75 |
| Visual Color Discrimination | ability | 2.75 |
| Speech Recognition | ability | 2.75 |
| Social Perceptiveness | transferable_skill | 2.62 |
| Complex Problem Solving | transferable_skill | 2.62 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | transferable_skill | 2.62 |
| Inductive Reasoning | ability | 2.62 |
| Perceptual Speed | ability | 2.62 |
| Auditory Attention | ability | 2.62 |
| Production and Processing | knowledge | 2.59 |
| Memorization | ability | 2.5 |
| Multilimb Coordination | ability | 2.5 |

## Skills

| Name | Type |
| --- | --- |
| English Language | Common Skill |
| Time Management | Common Skill |
| Reading Comprehension | Common Skill |
| Information Ordering | Specialized Skill |
| Active Listening | Common Skill |
| Finger Dexterity | Common Skill |
| Critical Thinking | Common Skill |
| Speech Recognition | Specialized Skill |
| Deductive Reasoning | Common Skill |
| Social Perceptiveness | Common Skill |
| Inductive Reasoning | Common Skill |
| Complex Problem Solving | Common Skill |
| Instructing | Specialized Skill |
| Active Learning | Common Skill |
| Chemistry | Specialized Skill |
| Writing | Common Skill |
| Visualization | Specialized Skill |
| Negotiation | Common Skill |
| Foreign Language | Common Skill |
| Mathematics | Common Skill |
| Learning Strategies | Specialized Skill |
| Depth Perception | Common Skill |
| Systems Analysis | Specialized Skill |
| Physics | Specialized Skill |
| Telecommunications | Specialized Skill |
| Equipment Selection | Specialized Skill |
| Biology | Specialized Skill |
| Psychology | Specialized Skill |
| Geography | Specialized Skill |
| Installation | Specialized Skill |
| Equipment Maintenance | Specialized Skill |

## Tools

| Example | Category | Hot | In Demand |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aldelo Systems Aldelo for Restaurants Pro | Point of sale POS software | no | no |
| Foodman Home-Delivery | Point of sale POS software | no | no |
| Inventory control software | Inventory management software | no | no |
| Plexis Software Plexis POS | Point of sale POS software | no | no |
| RestaurantPlus PRO | Point of sale POS software | no | no |

## Work Context

| Name | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Spend Time Standing | 4.75 |
| Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams | 4.66 |
| Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | 4.45 |
| Freedom to Make Decisions | 4.11 |
| Physical Proximity | 4.06 |
| Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings | 4.02 |
| Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team | 3.92 |
| Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | 3.81 |
| Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures | 3.76 |
| Contact With Others | 3.66 |
| Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities | 3.52 |
| Time Pressure | 3.52 |
| Spend Time Walking or Running | 3.48 |
| Frequency of Decision Making | 3.43 |
| Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets | 3.34 |
| Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | 3.33 |
| Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers | 3.31 |
| Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals | 3.27 |
| Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | 3.25 |
| Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | 3.17 |
| Health and Safety of Other Workers | 3.13 |
| Exposed to Contaminants | 2.89 |
| Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body | 2.87 |
| Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions | 2.63 |
| Telephone Conversations | 2.59 |
| Level of Competition | 2.57 |
| Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | 2.55 |
| Deal With External Customers or the Public in General | 2.42 |
| Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled | 2.36 |
| Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People | 2.35 |
| Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable | 2.26 |
| Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling | 2.16 |
| Exposed to Hazardous Conditions | 2.03 |
| Written Letters and Memos | 2 |
| Conflict Situations | 2 |
| Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance | 1.86 |
| Consequence of Error | 1.86 |
| Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions | 1.84 |
| Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment | 1.84 |
| Exposed to Hazardous Equipment | 1.63 |

## Preparation

- **Job Zone:** 2
- **Job Zone Name:** Job Zone 1-2: Very Little to Some Preparation Needed
- **Education:** Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
- **Experience:** Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.
- **Svp Range:** (Below 6.0)

### Education Distribution

| Label | Percentage |
| --- | --- |
| High School Diploma | 66.35 |
| Less than a High School Diploma | 14.43 |
| Some College Courses | 9.47 |
| Post-Secondary Certificate | 7.38 |
| Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) | 2.38 |

## Person Fit

| Name | Family | Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Realistic | career_interest_type | 6.13 |
| Conventional | career_interest_type | 4.37 |
| Culinary Art | specific_interest_area | 4.33 |
| Physical/Manual Labor | specific_interest_area | 3.84 |
| Enterprising | career_interest_type | 3.68 |
| Social | career_interest_type | 3.19 |
| Personal Service | specific_interest_area | 2.54 |
| Artistic | career_interest_type | 2.27 |
| Dependability | work_style | 2.11 |
| Sales | specific_interest_area | 1.81 |
| Stress Tolerance | work_style | 1.8 |
| Attention to Detail | work_style | 1.6 |
| Self-Control | work_style | 1.47 |
| Management/Administration | specific_interest_area | 1.38 |
| Cooperation | work_style | 1.28 |
| Social Orientation | work_style | 1.27 |

## Related Roles

| Soc Code | Slug | Title | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 35-2014.00 | role-35-2014-00 | Cooks, Restaurant | Primary-Short |
| 35-2011.00 | role-35-2011-00 | Cooks, Fast Food | Primary-Short |
| 35-2021.00 | role-35-2021-00 | Food Preparation Workers | Primary-Short |
| 35-2012.00 | role-35-2012-00 | Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria | Primary-Short |
| 51-3011.00 | role-51-3011-00 | Bakers | Primary-Short |
| 51-3021.00 | role-51-3021-00 | Butchers and Meat Cutters | Primary-Long |
| 35-2013.00 | role-35-2013-00 | Cooks, Private Household | Primary-Long |
| 35-3023.00 | role-35-3023-00 | Fast Food and Counter Workers | Primary-Long |
| 35-1011.00 | role-35-1011-00 | Chefs and Head Cooks | Primary-Long |
| 51-3093.00 | role-51-3093-00 | Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders | Primary-Long |
| 35-9021.00 | role-35-9021-00 | Dishwashers | Supplemental |
| 35-3041.00 | role-35-3041-00 | Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | Supplemental |

## Career Clusters

| Cluster | Slug |
| --- | --- |
| Hospitality, Events, & Tourism | hospitality-events-tourism |

## Education Level

- **Category:** No formal educational credential

## Study Programs


## Market

- **Median Wage:** 35620
- **Mean Wage:** 35660
- **Pct10Wage:** 23770
- **Pct25Wage:** 30160
- **Pct75Wage:** 39990
- **Pct90Wage:** 46010
- **Employment:** 150420
- **Area Title:** U.S.

## Industries


### Top

| Naics | Slug | Title | Level | Employment | Median Wage | Lq |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 72 | 72 | Accommodation and Food Services | Sector | 124350 | 35620 | 8.95 |
| 722511 | 722511 | Full-Service Restaurants | National industry | 36820 | 34740 | 7.04 |
| 44-45 | 44-45 | Retail Trade | Sector | 14940 | 35170 | 0.98 |
| 71 | 71 | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Sector | 5670 | 33390 | 2.2 |
| 31-33 | 31-33 | Manufacturing | Sector | 1360 | 37190 | 0.11 |
| 81 | 81 | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Sector | 1250 | 30540 | 0.29 |
| 62 | 62 | Health Care and Social Assistance | Sector | 1030 | 44430 | 0.05 |
| 56 | 56 | Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services | Sector | 640 | 39760 | 0.07 |
| 713940 | 713940 | Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers | National industry | 490 | 39200 | 0.8 |
| 561320 | 561320 | Temporary Help Services | National industry | 480 | 43680 | 0.19 |
| 51 | 51 | Information | Sector | 360 | 46860 | 0.13 |
| 42 | 42 | Wholesale Trade | Sector | 320 | 29420 | 0.05 |

### Concentrated

| Naics | Slug | Title | Level | Employment | Lq |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 72 | 72 | Accommodation and Food Services | Sector | 124350 | 8.95 |
| 722511 | 722511 | Full-Service Restaurants | National industry | 36820 | 7.04 |
| 71 | 71 | Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Sector | 5670 | 2.2 |
| 44-45 | 44-45 | Retail Trade | Sector | 14940 | 0.98 |
| 721120 | 721120 | Casino Hotels | National industry | 320 | 0.97 |
| 713940 | 713940 | Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers | National industry | 490 | 0.8 |
| 81 | 81 | Other Services (except Public Administration) | Sector | 1250 | 0.29 |
| 561320 | 561320 | Temporary Help Services | National industry | 480 | 0.19 |
- **Count:** 19

## Ai Signals

| Source | Label | Score | Scale | Release |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| frey_osborne | Computerization probability | 0.94 | 0-1 probability | 2013-baseline-2016-employment-snapshot |
| felten_aioe | AI occupational exposure | -0.5933817 | relative exposure score | 2021-plus-generative-ai-workbooks |
| felten_image_generation_aioe | Image generation occupational exposure | -0.7271932 | relative exposure score | 2021-plus-generative-ai-workbooks |
| felten_language_modeling_aioe | Language modeling occupational exposure | -0.5674362 | relative exposure score | 2021-plus-generative-ai-workbooks |

## Ai Outlook


### Index

- **Value:** 27
- **Percentile:** 25
- **Band:** Low
- **Version:** ai-exposure-index-v1

#### Components

| Percentile | Source |
| --- | --- |
| 32 | felten_aioe |
| 3 | openai_gpts_are_gpts |
| 47 | microsoft_working_with_ai |
- **Component Count:** 3

### Exposure

| Source | Label | Value | Percentile | Band | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| felten_aioe | Overall AI exposure (Felten et al.) | -0.5933817 | 32 | Low | How much this job's abilities overlap with what AI systems can do, across many AI capabilities. A relative research score, not a forecast of job loss. |
| eloundou_gamma | LLM task exposure, γ (OpenAI / Eloundou) | 0 | 3 | Low | Share of this job's tasks where a large language model plus simple tools could cut the time to do them by at least half. γ is capped at 1.0 and many jobs reach that ceiling, so treat a top score as 'in the top group', not a precise rank. |
| microsoft_applicability | AI assistant applicability (Microsoft) | 0.14188318165315575 | 47 | Moderate | How applicable today's AI assistants are to this job's activities, measured from real Microsoft Copilot conversations. Applicability is not the same as replacement. |

### Frey Historical

- **Source:** frey
- **Label:** Computerization probability (Frey & Osborne, 2013)
- **Value:** 0.94
- **Percentile:** 86
- **Band:** High
- **Note:** A pre-LLM (2013) estimate of how automatable this job is by computerization and robotics. Shown for historical context only — it is not part of any current AI ranking.
- **Teleworkable:** no

### Eloundou

- **Alpha:** 0
- **Beta:** 0
- **Gamma:** 0

### Usage Tasks

| Task | Usage Percent | Importance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements. | 0.004724558253803269 | 4.2 |
- **Usage Release:** 2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2

### Bls

- **Growth Percent:** -5.6
- **Growth Percentile:** 11
- **Direction:** Declining
- **Annual Openings Thousands:** 20.6
- **Annual Openings Percentile:** 78
- **Employment2024Thousands:** 151.1
- **Employment2034Thousands:** 142.7

### Sources

| Source | Version |
| --- | --- |
| bls_employment_projections | 2024-2034 |
| dingel_neiman | dingel-neiman-workathome |
| felten_aioe | felten-raj-seamans-aioe |
| frey_osborne | frey-osborne-automation |
| microsoft_working_with_ai | working-with-ai |
| openai_gpts_are_gpts | gpts-are-gpts |

## Ai Playbook

- **Trusted Task Count:** 2
- **Task Count:** 3
- **Total Sample:** 84
- **Autonomy Median:** 3.5
- **Dominant Collaboration:** directive
- **Automation Share:** 31.75

### Collaboration

| Label | Percent |
| --- | --- |
| directive | 31.75 |

### Use Case

| Label | Percent |
| --- | --- |
| personal | 90.48 |

### Delegated Tasks

| Task | Usage Percent | Autonomy Median | Sample Count | Collaboration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Plan work on orders so that items served together are finished at the same time. | 0.003300412551568946 | 4 | 33 |  |
| Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements. | 0.0030003750468808603 | 3 | 30 | directive |

### Boundary Tasks

| Task | Human Needed Percent | Sample Count |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Plan work on orders so that items served together are finished at the same time. | 100 | 33 |
| Take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements. | 100 | 30 |

### Seed Prompts

| Prompt | Collaboration |
| --- | --- |
| Help me with this part of my job: plan work on orders so that items served together are finished at the same time |  |
| Do this for me: take orders from customers and cook foods requiring short preparation times, according to customer requirements. Give me a finished draft I can review and adjust. | directive |
- **Release:** 2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2

## Counts

- **Tasks:** 11
- **Skills:** 31
- **Capabilities:** 120
- **Tools:** 5
- **Related Roles:** 20

## Source

- **Dataset:** gold.onet_role_starter_surface
- **Version:** 30.3
- **Generated At:** 2026-06-02T21:00:32.945303+00:00
- **Content Hash:** e1325ca7b0187e2a