The more obvious uses of kitchen shears are snipping herbs, breaking down poultry, cutting parchment, and opening food packaging. They are, after all, primarily scissors.
They have other uses, too, though. Kitchen shears often have a built-in jar and bottle opener, nutcracker, and screwdriver. Granted, you can’t do heavy-duty screw driving and they won’t even fit in a small screw, but they will do in a pinch.