NACE 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

• 56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities
• 56.2 Event catering, contract catering service activities and other food service activities
• 56.3 Beverage serving activities
• 56.4 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 takeaway restaurants, whether permanent or temporary, with or without seating. The fact that meals fit for immediate consumption are offered is decisive, not the kind of facility providing them.

What 56 excludes

• 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 and 11
• 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
• Coffee dispenser and vending machines selling food and drinks prepared by the machine itself, see division 47

56 in other systems