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Swiss federal authorities

561001 Restaurants, cafes, snack bars, tea rooms, ice-cream parlours


This type includes:

  • providing food services to customers (as well as the sale of drinks accompanying these meals), 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, with or without show performances. This includes the preparation and serving of meals for immediate consumption from motorised vehicles or non-motorised carts.

This type includes:

  • restaurants
  • self-service restaurants
  • fast-food restaurants
  • take-out eating places
  • ice cream parlours and ice cream truck vendors
  • mobile food carts
  • pizza delivery
  • food preparation in market stalls

This type also includes:

  • restaurant and bar activities connected to transportation, when carried out by separate units

This type excludes:

  • retail sale of food through vending machines (see 479900)
  • concession operation of eating facilities (see 562900)
  • restaurants management (see 561003)