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This class includes the provision of predominantly food services to customers (for example, in traditional restaurants, self-service or takeaway restaurants), with or without seating, in permanent or temporary facilities.

  • 56.11.0 Restaurant serving services

    This category excludes:

    • serving services of beverages without prepared foods, see 56.30.00
  • 56.11.01 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.
  • 56.11.02 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:

    • meal serving services at fast-food outlets without seating, take-away facilities and the like, see 56.11.09
    • mobile food serving services, see 56.12.00
    • factory, office or school canteen services on concession basis, see 56.22.20
  • 56.11.03 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
  • 56.11.09 Restaurant serving services n.e.c.

    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 These services are provided without seating and waiter services.

    This subcategory also includes:

    • food preparation services by takeaway restaurants in a supermarket, if operated by separate units not part of the supermarket

    This subcategory excludes:

    • retail sale services of food dispensed through vending machines, see 47.2
    • mobile food services, preparing and serving food and beverages for immediate consumption from motorised vehicle or non-motorised carts, see 56.12.00