ISIC 56—Food and beverage service activities

Where 56 sits

1. I Accommodation and food service activities
2. 56 Food and beverage service activities

Contains 4 narrower codes

• 561 Restaurants and mobile food service activities
• 562 Event catering and other food service activities
• 563 Beverage serving activities
• 564 Intermediation service activities for food and beverage services activities

What 56 includes

• This division includes food and beverage serving activities providing meals or drinks fit for immediate consumption, whether in traditional restaurants, self-service or take-away restaurants, whether permanent or temporary, with or without seating. Decisive is the fact that meals fit for immediate consumption are offered, not the kind of facility providing them.

What 56 excludes

• Excluded is the production of meals not fit for immediate consumption or not planned to be consumed immediately or of prepared food which is not considered to be a meal (see divisions 10: manufacture of food products and 11: manufacture of beverages). Also excluded is the sale of not self-manufactured food that is not considered to be a meal or of meals that are not fit for immediate consumption (see section G: wholesale and retail trade).
• Coffee dispenser and vending machines selling food and drinks prepared by the machine itself are classified in division 47

56 in other systems