This document outlines 12 sectors of the foodservice industry: hotels and tourist accommodation, restaurants, popular catering, fast food, take away, banqueting, leisure attractions, industrial catering, welfare catering, transport catering, outdoor catering. It provides a brief historical summary of how each sector developed to meet the food and drink needs of customers in various settings like accommodation, entertainment, travel, and work. The sectors range from those that offer full-service meals to fast casual options and vary in their pricing structure, level of service, and customer throughput.

1. HOTELS AND OTHER TOURIST ACCOMODATION
RESTAURANTS
POPULAR CATERING
FAST FOOD
TAKE AWAY
BANQUETING
LEISURE ATTRACTIONS
INDUSTRIAL CATERING
WELFARE CATERING
TRANSPORT CATERING
OUTDOOR CATERING
SECTORS OF FOODSERVICE INDUSTRY

2. Hotels and other tourist accomodation
 Provision of food and drink together with
accomodation services
 Historical summary
Developed from Inns and supported by developments in
transport and increases in business and leisure -related
tourism
Hotel, motel and other tourist accommodation often referred
to as the LODGING INDUSTRY

3. Restaurants
 Provision of food and drink, generally at a high price
with high levels of service
 Historical summary
Grew out of hotel restaurants through chefs wishing to
start theit own businesses

4. Popular catering
 Including cafes, pizza, grills, specialist coffee shops
 Provision of food and drink, low/medium price with
limited levels of service and often high customer
throughput
 Historical summary
Developed from ABC and Lyons concepts, highly
influenced by the USA

5. Fast Food
 Including McDonalds and Burger King
 Provision of food and drink in highly specialised
environment
 Characterised by high investment, high labour costs
and vast customer throughput
 Historical Summary
Grew from combination of popular catering and take
away, high sophisticated meal packaging and
marketing

6. Take away
 Including ethnic, spuds, KFC,snacks, fish and chips,
sandwich bars, kiosks
 Fast provision of food and drink
 Developed in UK from original fish and chip
concepts.
 Influenced by USA and trends in food tastes

7. Banqueting/conferencing exhibitions
 Provision of large scale food and drink alongside
services such as conferencing
 Originally associated withn hotels but has now
become major sector in ist own right
 Leisure and special event market

8. Leisure attractions
 Such as theme parks, museums, galleries, cinemas
and theatres
 Provision of food and drinks to people engaged in
another pursuit
 Historical summary
Increases in leisure have made profit from food and
drink attractive to leisure and amenity providers

9. Industrial catering
 Provision of food and drink to people at work
 Historical summary
Born out of recognition that better-fe workers work
better. Boosted in UK during First and Second WW
Business/industry markets

10. Welfare catering
 Provision of food and drink to people in colleges,
universities and the forces and to people through
established social needs
 Social caterer/foodservice

11. Transport catering
 Including railways, airlines and marine
 Provision of food and drink to peolple on the move
 Historical summary
Grew out of the need to meet the demands of travelling
public. Originally service were of high levels, reflecting the
type of traveller. Eventually changed to meet the needs of a
wide range of travellers.
 Transportation market

12. Outdoor catering
 Provision of food and drink away from home base
and suppliers usually associated with a major event
 Historical summary
Developed through need to provide services at special
events.
 Catering market

13. Summary of sectors in the foodservice industry
PROFIT ORIENTATED
RESTRICTED MARKETRESTRICTED MARKET GENERAL MARKET
COST PROVISION
(public or privat ownership)
(catering, main or secondary activity
Transport catering
Clubs
Industrial
Private welfare
Hotels/Restaurants
Popular catering
Fast food /Take away
Banqueting
Leisure
Pubs and Winebar
Institutional catering
Schools
Universities/colleges
The forces
Prisons
Industrial
(own catering)