FOOD SERVICE INDUSTRY SEGMENTS • History, movies, characters etc.

ETHNIC

Food Service • reflect a specific international cuisine

• The art and science of planning, preparing, cooking and BARS AND TAVERNS
serving quality meals in quantities far greater than those
• bars- offers a light food menu and extensive beverage
of the usual family meals
menu
•Taverns-offers a more extensive food menu
Food Service Industry
LUXURY OR UPSCALE
• All establishments where food is served outside the
•Sells expensive to very expensive foods and wines with
home
impeccable service
FAMILY
What is the Goal of a FOOD SERVICE
•Customer base is families
INSTITUTION?
•Offer moderately priced food, table service and large
• Service of quality meals to a satisfied clientele at a
seating capacity
reasonable cost
SPECIALTY
• Could be PROFIT- ORIENTED or NON-PROFIT
ORIENTED •Menu revolves around a particular category of menu
items or specialty
DELICATESSEN
Segments of the Food Service Industry
•Serves over the counter, made to order sandwiches and
TWO MAJOR SEGMENTS
a wide selection of meats and cheeses
• Commercial Foodservice
SPECIALTY COFFEE
• Operations that compete in a free market and are open
•Offering a variety of coffee beans and extensive menu
to all customers
of hot and cold drinks and a limited selection of pastries
• Institutional Foodservice and sandwich

• Operations set up within a specific kind of institutions ICE CREAM PARLOR

to serve a specific type of clientele
•Offering multiple varieties of ice creams, yogurts,
specialty cakes, etc.

Commercial Food Service Operations CHAIN

Stand –Alone Restaurants •Owned and operated or franchised by international

chains
• Largest and most common
• Located apart from other hospitality establishments
Foodservice within a Lodging Property or another
QUICKSERVICE establishment
• fast-food restaurants • Associated with a other establishments offered as an
• fast service and production of food amenity

CAFETERIA • Dining rooms in hotels, Food Courts in malls

• customer self-service
BUFFET
• all you can eat for a fixed price
•Wide variety of food is displayed Clubs
• Clubs that offer food to the members of the
organization and their guests
THEME RESTAURANT
• the design, menu and service of the restaurant follows
a theme Special Entertainment Concepts
• Entertainment concepts associated with restaurants
• Dinner Theatre
• Visible Kitchen

Institutional Foodservice
SCHOOL OR COLLEGE
•Food service operations in educational institutions
MILITARY
•Food service operations situated in military
establishments
CORRECTIONAL
•Food service operations inside jails for prisoners and
staffs
HOSPITAL OR LIFECARE
•Food service operations in medical establishments and
institutions
CORPORATE DINING
•Upscale food choices in an elegant setting for
executives and corporate clients
EMPLOYEE CAFETERIA
•Meal options for staff of an office or building

Transport Feeding
AIRLINE FEEDING
•Largest segment in the transportation foodservice
•Food is produced in a central commissary which may
cater to many different airlines
RAILROAD FOODSERVICE
•Meals served in passenger trains with dining areas and
snack bars in coaches
BUS FOODSERVICE
•Food and beverage served in bus terminals •Now even
in bus

SHIP FOODSERVICE
• Meals served in ships may be as elaborate as hotel
setup in cruise liners, and as simple as family meals in
crew liners with the menu depending largely on the
budget appropriation and company
CENTRAL COMMISSARIES
•Foodservices which operates like a food factory in
which foods are quickly mass- produced on assembly
lines, using large capacity special equipmenT