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Food and Beverage Industry A food and beverage business prepares, packages, serves, sells, or provides food for people to eat. This industry is a/k/a the Foodservice industry. These businesses range from small one person operations to huge businesses that provide 1000s of meals each day. Places of operation range from a pushcart of hotdogs on a street to a cruise ship with 1000s of passengers, a grocery store soup/salad bar to a high school cafeteria, an airline that provides snacks and meals to a baseball park that provides the same. With that said there are several main categories: Commercial and Institutional, and a hybrid of both. Commercial food and beverage businesses compete for business. There are four categories: quick-service restaurants, full-service restaurants, catering and hotel/club foodservice. Quick-service restaurants (QSR) include: fast-food restaurants (over the counter service) Example: cafeterias (serving line) Example: buffet (food displayed on tables and customers serve themselves) Example: carryout restaurants (food is prepared and ready to be taken to eat elsewhere) Example: Full-service restaurants seat the customers at tables. The server takes the orders, and serves the prepared food to be eaten at the table. They range from Fine-Dining to Casual-Dining. Fine dining highest quality service, ingredients, and atmosphere. Service is lavish and prices are very high. Restaurants are small and have professional chefs on staff. Only 1% of Full-service restaurants are considered to be Fine-Dining. Example: Casual dining – prices range from budget to expensive, from very casual to more formal, single-item to ethnic and family restaurants. Examples: Budget – Formal – Single-item – Ethnic – Family restaurant – Catering – provision of food and service for a special event. Usually feeding a large number of people at one time, ex. a wedding, a prom, a convention/conference. There are two types: On-premise and off-premise are