56 Food and beverage service activities
This division includes food and beverage serving activities providing complete meals or drinks fit for immediate consumption, whether in traditional restaurants, self-service or take-away restaurants, whether as permanent or temporary stands with or without seating. Decisive is the fact that meals fit for immediate consumption are offered, not the kind of facility providing them. 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).
Where 56 sits in the TOL 2008 hierarchy
- >I Accommodation and food service activities
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Subcategories of 56 Food and beverage service activities
- 56.1Restaurants and mobile food service activities
This class includes the provision of food services to customers, whether they are served while seated or serve themselves from a display of items, whether they eat the prepared meals on the premises, take them out or have them delivered. This includes the preparation and serving of meals for immediate consumption from motorised vehicles or non-motorised carts. This class includes activities of: - restaurants - cafeterias - fast-food restaurants - take-out eating places - ice cream truck vendors - mobile food carts - food preparation in market stalls This class excludes: - retail sale of food through vending machines, see 47.99 - concession operation of eating facilities, see 56.29
- 56.2Event catering and other food service activities
This group includes catering activities for individual events or for a specified period of time and the operation of food concessions, such as at sports or similar facilities.
- 56.3Beverage serving activities
This class includes preparation and serving of beverages for immediate consumption on the premises. This class includes activities of: - bars - taverns - cocktail lounges - discotheques (with beverage serving predominant) - beer parlours - coffee shops - fruit juice bars - mobile beverage vendors This class excludes: - reselling packaged/prepared beverages, see 47 - retail sale of beverages through vending machines, see 47.99 - operation of discotheques and dance floors without beverage serving, see 93.29
Other TOL 2008 codes under 56 Food and beverage service activities
Frequently asked questions
- What is TOL 2008 56?
- TOL 2008 56 is "Food and beverage service activities". This division includes food and beverage serving activities providing complete meals or drinks fit for immediate consumption, whether in traditional restaurants, self-service or take-away restaurants, whether as permanent or temporary stands with or without seating. Decisive is the fact that meals fit for immediate consumption are offered, not the kind of facility providing them. 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).
- What does TOL 2008 56 include?
- 56 Food and beverage service activities contains 3 direct subcategories: 56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities; 56.2 Event catering and other food service activities; 56.3 Beverage serving activities.
- How does TOL 2008 56 map to other classification systems?
- 56 Food and beverage service activities has equivalents in NACE Rev 2 (56). These crosswalks let you translate this code between TOL 2008 and 1 other classification system.
- What is the parent category of 56?
- 56 Food and beverage service activities sits under 56 Food and beverage service activities in the TOL 2008 hierarchy.
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