The foodservice (or food service) industry generally encompasses those places, institutions, and companies responsible for any meal eaten away from home. This industry includes restaurants, school and hospital cafeterias, catering operations, and many other formats. Major foodservice providers include Compass Group, Sodexho, Aramark, and the Crown Group.
The companies that supply foodservice operators are called foodservice distributors. Foodservice hard goods like ovens and refrigerators are often sold by large buying groups.
Some companies manufacture products in both consumer and foodservice versions. The consumer version usually comes in individual-sized packages with elaborate label design for retail sale. The foodservice version is packaged in a much larger industrial size and often lacks the colorful label designs of the consumer version.

S Food Services - A Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based corporate catering service specializing in meetings and banquets.
Meta Description: [ D&S Food Services - Full service vending, corporate dining, catering, banquet and coffee service. ]
Aramark - An international company specializing in food services for stadiums, arenas, campuses, businesses, and schools. Also involved in uniform services and school and healthcare support services.
Bakingbusiness.com - Online community for the commercial wholesale and retail baking industry.
Meta Description: [ BakingBusiness.com is a baking community developed by the publishers of Milling and Baking News, Baking and Snack, Baking Buyer, Instore Buyer and Food Business News. ]
Catering International and Services - Specializes in remote site catering, housekeeping, logistic, management and maintenance services for oil gas, mining and engineering companies operating in extreme conditions. Secondary specialization includes operating hotels in developing countries.
Concession Planning Internation (CPI) - Offers concession planning services for airport operators including audits, tender planning and strategy.
Meta Description: [ CPI - concession planning consulting
services to airport operators, enhancing non-aeronautical revenues in
(existing and new) airport terminal buildings, optimising airport commercial
revenues. ]
Consolidated Management Company - Food service contracting company.
EarthShell Corporation - Develops, licenses and commercializes proprietary composite material for the manufacture of disposable packaging for the foodservice industry, such as hinged-lid containers, cups, plates, trays, and bowls. (Nasdaq: ERTH).
Gent-Young - Marketing agents in the foodservice industry.
Meta Description: [ Marketing agents in the foodservice industry. ]
Host America Corporation - Develops, markets and operates contract food service operation for cafeterias. (Nasdaq: CAFE).
Pastry Profiles - For the pastry professional, featuring recipes, competition highlights, chef's biographies and listings of upcoming pastry events.
Meta Description: [ A website for pastry professionals, A website for pastry professionals ]
Restaurant News and Foodservice Financials - Real restaurants. Real stories.
Meta Description: [ Real Restaurants. Real Stories. The Essential Resource for Online Restaurant News ]
Sage Dining Services - Company provides dining services and catering to schools, colleges and corporations.
Meta Description: [ SAGE Dining Services provides exceptional dining services and gourmet catering to discerning schools, colleges and corporations. ]
The Boelter Companies - Offers consulting and design services, equipment, and supplies to the foodservice and hospitality industries. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Meta Description: [ 200 Enthusiastic Boelter Associates in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota stand ready to make a positive difference in your business. ]
The Society of Mad Chefs - Resources for the professional chef. Includes jobs, professional recipes, and industry editorials.
World Culinary Institute - Culinary education portal featuring over 25,000 gastronomy links around the globe.
Meta Description: [ World Food and cooking education directory - featuring hundreds of cooking schools, Culinary Schools, Video demonstrations, Culinary Associations, distance learning, cooking classes, wine courses, Culinary publications worldwide ]
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