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Food service

The food service (US English) or catering (British and Commonwealth English) industry includes the businesses, institutions, and companies which prepare meals outside the home. It includes restaurants, grocery stores, school and hospital cafeterias, catering operations, and many other formats.

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Statistics

United States

Health concerns

Types of service

Subsectors of the food service industry

Food safety

Food waste

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Food service

Nodes73
Edges72
Triples33
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027397
Components1

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Food service

Top relations

related to Food safety · 11
Food service → Catering, ISO, ISO/TS, Part, Prerequisite, PRPs, The, The WHO, These, They, This
related to United States · 6
Food service → According, Full-service, National Restaurant Association, The, US, USDA
related to Health concerns · 4
Food service → Eating, Food, Healthy Eating Index, Many
related to Statistics · 4
Food service → According, It, Report, UNEP Food Waste Index
related to Commercial · 2
Food service → Commercial, This
related to Non-commercial · 2
Food service → Non-commercial, Places
is a · 1
Food service → broad umbrella term that encapsulates all businesses that prepare and serve food and/or drinks to customers for profit.This includes restaurants
related to Subsectors of the food service industry · 1
Food service → Food

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Important terminology

food service restaurants catering industry table fast consumer kitchens year us foods includes states ghost waste companies non-commercial calories full-service

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Food serviceis abroad umbrella term that encapsulates all businesses that prepare and serve food and/or drinks to customers for profit.This includes restaurants0.90text
recreational facilitiesinstance ofincluding locations that are not primarily engaged in dispensing meals0.80text
retail storesinstance ofincluding locations that are not primarily engaged in dispensing meals0.80text
Food servicerelated to CommercialCommercial0.60section
Food servicerelated to CommercialThis0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyThe0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyPRPs0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyISO/TS0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyPrerequisite0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyPart0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyCatering0.60section
Food servicerelated to Food safetyThis0.60section

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