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Concept information
- Fields of Study
- industrial organization and market structure
- industry
- agricultural industry
- food industry
Preferred term
food service
Type
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Topic
Definition
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The practice or business of making, transporting, and serving or dispensing prepared foods, as in a restaurant or school.
Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- cafeterias
- catering
- college food service
- Food and Drug Administration Food Code
- food service management
- food serving methods
- hospital food service
- hotel food service
- industrial food service
- menu planning
- military food service
- restaurants
- school food service
- temporary food service
- transport food service
Synonyms
- commercial food service
- commercial foodservice
- food establishments
- foodservice
- food service industry
- institutional feeding
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/20997
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