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food service

American  

noun

  1. the preparation, delivery, serving, etc., of ready-to-eat foods.

    The cafeteria employs over 20 people in food service.


Example Sentences

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He noted that the trend for auto sales now looks "flat-to-falling," while a dip in food service sales "rounds off a relatively weak quarter."

From Barron's

Among other things, Homeboy operates an 18-month program where trainees work in all of the nonprofit’s 14 social enterprises, which include food service, dog grooming and electronic recycling.

From Los Angeles Times

More than 100,000 Haitians work in healthcare, she wrote, adding that Haitians in the U.S. “play indispensable roles in hospitality, food service, education, and manufacturing — industries that already face labor shortages and would be further destabilized by the loss of this workforce.”

From Los Angeles Times

In 1965, fired up by a book which prophesied that franchises would take over America, Bamberger persuaded Bill Church Jr. to form a new outfit, Church’s Food Service Industry, and expand the family business into an empire.

From The Wall Street Journal

Local 99 members include bus drivers, teacher aides, special-education assistants, custodians and food service workers.

From Los Angeles Times