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Restaurant managers

MinimalExposure gradient (ILO 2025)

AI can help with a few sub-tasks (emails, paperwork), but the core of the job doesn't change.

Exposure is not job loss: it shows how much of the work generative AI could do today. Whether that turns into transformation, productivity gains or cuts depends on employers, regulation — and on you.

Exposure score
36/ 100 · ±12
050100
Average of all occupations: 30

0 = today’s generative AI cannot perform any of the job’s tasks, 100 = it could do all of them fully. The pale band is the spread across tasks.

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Change since 2023
−6
2023 classification
Uncertain

What can you do?

The AI analysis for this occupation is still being prepared — the background process covers a few occupations every day.

Task by task

The ILO scored every task of the occupation separately, as the average of two AI models (GPT-4o and Gemini). The pale band is the range between the two models' scores, the dot the ILO's final score (for a few tasks expert review placed it outside the band).

  • Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions60
  • Arranging the purchasing and pricing of goods according to budget49
  • Planning menus in consultation with chefs and cooks44
  • Taking reservations, greeting guests and assisting in taking orders38
  • Planning and organizing special functions35
  • Conferring with customers to assess their satisfaction with meals and service35
  • Selecting, set staff work schedules, training and supervising waiting and kitchen staff28
  • Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.27
  • Negotiating arrangements with clients and suppliers26
  • Ensuring dining, kitchen and food storage facilities comply with health regulations and are clean, functional and of suitable appearance23

How much does it affect you?

Every job is different: mark which of these tasks you do and how much, and we'll compute your own, time-weighted score.

For each task: I don't do it · sometimes · most of my job.

  • Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions(60)
  • Arranging the purchasing and pricing of goods according to budget(49)
  • Planning menus in consultation with chefs and cooks(44)
  • Taking reservations, greeting guests and assisting in taking orders(38)
  • Planning and organizing special functions(35)
  • Conferring with customers to assess their satisfaction with meals and service(35)
  • Selecting, set staff work schedules, training and supervising waiting and kitchen staff(28)
  • Ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety regulations.(27)
  • Negotiating arrangements with clients and suppliers(26)
  • Ensuring dining, kitchen and food storage facilities comply with health regulations and are clean, functional and of suitable appearance(23)
Your estimated exposure score
36/ 100

You are exactly at the occupation average. (The occupation's score: 36.)

About 10% of your working time goes to highly exposed tasks (score ≥ 50).

Most affected
  • • Maintaining records of stock levels and financial transactions
  • • Arranging the purchasing and pricing of goods according to budget
Most likely to stay human
  • • Ensuring dining, kitchen and food storage facilities comply with health regulations and are clean, functional and of suitable appearance
  • • Negotiating arrangements with clients and suppliers

An estimate from the ILO task scores. Everything is computed in your browser — nothing is sent or stored.

How many people work in this occupational group?

Share of the Hospitality, retail and other services managers group in total employment, by country (Eurostat, ISCO 2-digit — 4-digit breakdowns are not public by country).

Hospitality, retail and other services managers
Table view
CountryHospitality, retail and other services managers
Malta3.4% · 11 thousand · 2025
United Kingdom3.4% · 1,146 thousand · 2025
Ireland3.0% · 84 thousand · 2025
Bulgaria2.7% · 78 thousand · 2025
Portugal2.0% · 106 thousand · 2025
Estonia1.9% · 13 thousand · 2025
Italy1.8% · 445 thousand · 2025
France1.7% · 512 thousand · 2025
Croatia1.7% · 30 thousand · 2025
Poland1.7% · 296 thousand · 2025
Norway1.6% · 46 thousand · 2025
Spain1.4% · 317 thousand · 2025
Iceland1.3% · 3 thousand · 2025
Greece1.2% · 53 thousand · 2025
Hungary1.1% · 53 thousand · 2025
Belgium1.1% · 56 thousand · 2025
Netherlands1.1% · 105 thousand · 2025
Slovakia1.0% · 25 thousand · 2025
Sweden0.9% · 49 thousand · 2025
Cyprus0.9% · 5 thousand · 2025
Latvia0.8% · 8 thousand · 2025
Austria0.8% · 36 thousand · 2025
Lithuania0.7% · 10 thousand · 2025
Switzerland0.6% · 31 thousand · 2025
Germany0.6% · 241 thousand · 2025
Slovenia0.5% · 5 thousand · 2025
Romania0.5% · 35 thousand · 2025
Czechia0.4% · 21 thousand · 2025
Finland0.4% · 10 thousand · 2025
Denmark0.3% · 10 thousand · 2025
2.62 m
Hospitality, retail and other services managers — EU27
Eurostat · 2025
1.3%
of all employed (EU27)

What do they earn?

Mean gross monthly earnings in the major occupational group (Managers). Eurostat's earnings survey only publishes pay by occupation at 1 digit, so this is the job's broader group. Enterprises with 10+ employees, 2022.

€5,374
EU average (gross/month)
+87% compared with the average of all occupations

By country, at purchasing power parity (PPS/month), so countries with different price levels can be compared.

  1. Switzerland8,354
  2. Italy7,983
  3. Luxembourg7,683
  4. Belgium7,390
  5. Germany7,172
  6. Denmark6,654
  7. Austria6,190
  8. Ireland6,181
  9. Finland6,101
  10. Cyprus5,842
  11. Norway5,718
  12. Iceland5,653
  13. Netherlands5,508
  14. EU275,374
  15. France5,226
  16. Sweden4,960
  17. Slovenia4,808
  18. Spain4,699
  19. Czechia4,257
  20. Portugal4,203
  21. Greece4,190
  22. Malta4,128
  23. Poland4,112
  24. Romania4,078
  25. Lithuania4,031
  26. Hungary3,641
  27. Bulgaria3,559
  28. Croatia3,524
  29. Slovakia3,418
  30. Estonia3,290
  31. Latvia3,288

Source: Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey (earn_ses22_21), every four years. The United Kingdom is not covered by the survey.

Outlook to 2035

Employment in the Hospitality, retail and other services managers group according to Cedefop's 2026 forecast.

5010054201520192023202720312035

thousand · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · 2026–2035: projection

−51.5%
Change 2025→2035
−57 k
Expansion
23 k
Replacement demand
0
Total expected openings

Replacement demand is the jobs left by people retiring or changing careers — even a shrinking occupation can have many openings.

Related occupations

Sources: ILO WP140 (2025) · Eurostat lfsa_egai2d · Cedefop Skills Forecast 2026 · WEF Future of Jobs 2025 · ESCO. The exposure score measures how much of an occupation's tasks generative AI could perform — not whether the job disappears. For information only, not career advice. How do we calculate this?