Market for Food Consumed Away from Home: Dollar Value Statistics. Supplement to Statistical Bulletin Number 476. 'The Foodservice Industry: Type, Quantity, and Values of Foods Used

摘要

Operators of away-from-home eating places purchased food and nonalcoholic beverages valued at $12.2 billion in 1969, up $2.4 billion since 1966. Although most purchases were made at the wholesale level, some were made at other distribution levels, including retail. The estimates include all away-from-home eating places except those operated in conjunction with elementary and secondary schools, the military services, Federal hospitals, correctional institutions, in-transit feeding operations, and boardinghouses.