Catering

Under the food supply of food, beverages and tobacco and food and drink is understood in common parlance.

Food for catering, food comes from the Middle High Deutsches kost (s) for, effort, to, or for food, feed ' and is identical with Middle High German kost (s) for, cost, price, cost '. The phrase room and board means food and shelter; Logis for, house, place to live ' was borrowed from the French. Food for care outside the home are also referred to as provisions.

Caterers

Catering, also called Community gastronomy, is a special form of gastronomy and called the regular Board of groups of people in businesses, health and care institutions as well as educational institutions. These include the three main groups:

• Food in cafeterias, canteens and refectories
• Caterers in hospitals, retirement homes, nursing homes, day schools, kindergartens
• Meals in a disaster by the food service

Together with catering companies, traditional catering and the catering form the public catering establishments within the food industry, the group of large consumers of food.