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O*NET detailed work activityAssist customers with seating arrangements
Stays humanBe there for people
4 jobs6 tasks
This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.
Part of Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 6 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Greet guests and seat them at tables or in waiting areas.
- Assign patrons to tables suitable for their needs and according to rotation so that servers receive an appropriate number of seatings.
- Assist host or hostess by answering phones to take reservations or to-go orders, and by greeting, seating, and thanking guests.
- Determine where patients or patrons would like to eat their meals and help them get situated.
- Escort customers to their tables.