Food-Away-From-Home (FAFH) covers

meal A meal is an eating occasion that takes place at a certain time and includes consumption of food. The names used for specific meals in English vary, depending on the speaker's culture, the time of day, or the size of the meal. Although they ca ...

s and

snack A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home. Traditionally, snacks are p ...

s supplied by commercial

food service The foodservice (US English) or catering (British English) industry includes the businesses, institutions, and companies which prepare meals outside the home. It includes restaurants, school and hospital cafeterias, catering operations, and man ...

establishments and by eating facilities in non commercial institutions.

Segments covered in FAFH

;Commercial Foodservice * Limited service restaurants:

quick service restaurant A fast-food restaurant, also known as a quick-service restaurant (QSR) within the industry, is a specific type of restaurant that serves fast-food cuisine and has minimal table service. The food served in fast-food restaurants is typically ...

s, quick

casual dining Restaurants fall into several industry classifications, based upon menu style, preparation methods and pricing, as well as the means by which the food is served to the customer. This article mainly describes the situation in the USA, while catego ...

cafeteria A cafeteria, sometimes called a canteen outside the U.S., is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school ...

, delivery and take-away, and

buffet A buffet can be either a sideboard (a flat-topped piece of furniture with cupboards and drawers, used for storing crockery, glasses, and table linen) or a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners serve ...

Full-service restaurant Restaurants fall into several industry classifications, based upon menu style, preparation methods and pricing, as well as the means by which the food is served to the customer. This article mainly describes the situation in the USA, while categ ...

s: family style restaurants, casual dining, upscale casual dining and

fine dining Fine may refer to: Characters * Sylvia Fine (''The Nanny''), Fran's mother on ''The Nanny'' * Officer Fine, a character in ''Tales from the Crypt'', played by Vincent Spano Legal terms * Fine (penalty), money to be paid as punishment for an offe ...

restaurants * Drinking place: bars & taverns * Lodging:

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...

s, motels, bed &

breakfast Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night.Anderson, Heather Arndt (2013)''Breakfast: A History'' AltaMira Press. Various "typical" or "t ...

s, etc. * Retail stores (including

vending machine A vending machine is an automated machine that provides items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or otherwise made. The fir ...

sales), * Recreational places (i.e. movie theaters, bowling alleys, pool parlors, sports arenas, amusement parks, camps, golf and country clubs). ;Non commercial Foodservice * Schools and colleges * Healthcare &

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

s * Business & industry: employees feeding in offices, factories, and plants * And all other places (i.e. military exchanges and clubs, railroad dining cars, airlines, institutions, hospitals, boarding houses, fraternity and sorority houses, and civic and social organizations, and food facilities for military forces, civilian employees, and child day care).

References

United States Department of Agriculture: U.S. Trends in Eating Away From Home - J. C. Durnagan, J. W. Hackett

United States Department of Agriculture: The Demand for Food Away From Home: Full-Service or Fast Food? - H. Stewart, N. Blisard, S. Bhuyan, R. M. Nayga Jr.

External links

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