5610 Restaurants and mobile food service activities


Corresponding CPA codes

  • 56.10.1 Restaurant and mobile food serving services

    This category excludes:

    • serving services of beverages without prepared foods, see 56.30.10
  • 56.10.11 Meal serving services with full restaurant service

    This subcategory includes:

    • food preparation and related beverage services furnished by restaurants, cafes and similar eating facilities providing full service consisting of waiter service to individual customers seated at tables (including counters or booths) with or without entertainment
    • food preparation and related beverage services furnished in hotels or other accommodation places

    Normally a full service consisting of waiter service to individual customers seated at tables (including counters or booths) is provided.

  • 56.10.12 Meal serving services in railway dining cars and on ships

    This subcategory includes:

    • food preparation and related beverage services furnished in transport facilities, e.g., in trains or aboard ships

    Normally a full service consisting of waiter service to individual customers seated at tables (including counters or booths) is provided.

    • dining car services
  • 56.10.13 Meal serving services in self-service establishments

    This subcategory includes:

    • meals serving services in limited- and self-service establishments, providing seating but not waiter service, such as: • fast-food outlets with seating • canteens

    This subcategory excludes:

    • the provision of food by facilities without waiter service and not normally offering seating, see 56.10.19
    • factory, office or school canteen services on concession basis, see 56.29.20
  • 56.10.19 Other meal serving services

    This subcategory includes:

    • other food preparation and related beverages services provided by refreshment stands, fish-and-chips stands, fast-food outlets without seating, take-away facilities etc.
    • services of ice-cream parlours and cake serving places
    • services of meals and snacks prepared on the premises dispensed through vending machines
    • mobile food services, preparing and serving food and beverages for immediate consumption from motorised vehicle or non-motorised carts

    These services are provided without seating and waiter services.

    This subcategory excludes:

    • services of meals and snacks not prepared on the premises dispensed through vending machines, see 47.00.1, 47.00.2