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    Food Servers, Nonrestaurant

    Serve food to individuals outside of a restaurant environment, such as in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, residential care facilities, or cars.

    Median pay
    $35,360
    Growth
    +4.5%
    As fast as average
    Openings a year
    48,800
    Typical education
    No formal credential

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $28,030
    Median
    $35,360
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $46,120
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    293,900 people work in this occupation.

    What food servers, nonrestaurant do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Serve food to individuals outside of a restaurant environment, such as in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, residential care facilities, or cars.

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R) · strongest
    64 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    8 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    18 / 100
    Social (S)
    54 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    31 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    48 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    85
    Getting Information
    82
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    77
    Performing General Physical Activities
    73
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    71
    Handling and Moving Objects
    70
    Assisting and Caring for Others
    66
    Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
    61
    Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
    58
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    58
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Active Listening
    • Service Orientation
    • Speaking
    • Coordination
    • Critical Thinking
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Time Management
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Monitoring

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • English Language
    • Food Production
    • Administration and Management
    • Education and Training
    • Public Safety and Security
    • Mathematics
    • Psychology
    • Law and Government
    • Computers and Electronics

    Abilities

    • Oral Comprehension
    • Near Vision
    • Oral Expression
    • Selective Attention
    • Speech Clarity
    • Speech Recognition
    • Arm-Hand Steadiness
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Information Ordering

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Cooperation
    • Attention to Detail
    • Social Orientation
    • Empathy
    • Optimism
    • Sincerity
    • Integrity
    • Stress Tolerance
    • Self-Control

    Also called

    Boat Hop · Car Attendant · Car Hop · Curb Attendant · Curb Hop · Curber · Dining Room Server · Food and Beverage Server · Food Cart Attendant · Food Order Delivery Runner

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What food servers, nonrestaurant may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

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    Licenses by state

    2 states list a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 9, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.