The retail sales equivalent for airlines is defined as the value of all meals, including nonalcoholic beverages, on domestic and international flights originating in the United States. The number of meals is a function of the number of revenue passenger miles flown in the U.S. by domestic and foreign carriers.

Petroleum stores are primarily gas stations with a small convenience store.

Convenience stores represent a category created in 1984; it was formerly included in the "Other Public" segment in previous Technomic, Inc. time series. Foodservice in convenience stores includes those items that are sold for immediate consumption and that generally require a piece of equipment for reconstitution or preparation.

Format offering a full line of groceries, meat and produce with at least $2 million in annual sales with 6% to 8% of their sales in GM/HBC. These stores typically carry at least 9,000 items, offer a service deli and frequently a service bakery.

Combination of superstore and drug store under a single roof, with common checkouts. These stores also have a pharmacy. Foodservice Industry Includes all establishments, types of businesses and services that prepare and generally serve food, meals, snacks and beverages away-from-home.

The hospitals segment includes all U.S. hospitals, offering both long-term and short-term care, public and private, and general as well as psychiatric and other special institutions. Included in foodservice retail sales equivalent dollars are: Patient feeding Meals consumed by visitors Catering

Very large food and general merchandise store with at least 100,000 square feet of selling space. While these stores typically devote as much as 75% of the selling area to general merchandise, the sales ratio is typically 60/40, e.g., Bigg's and Twin Value.

The lodging segment comes under the census heading of hotels, motels, rooming/boarding houses, casino hotels, bed and breakfast inns, RV parks and campgrounds. The specific definition for the group is: "…establishments primarily engaged in providing short-term lodging facilities. These establishments may offer services, such as [..]

Military foodservice includes foods purchased and used by the military on military installations. This would include foodservice for: Troop officers' feeding Clubs Exchanges Military hospitals

Scaled-down version of the wholesale club. The mini-club is approximately one-fourth the size of a typical wholesale club and carries about 60% of the SKUs, including all of the major food and sundry departments and a limited line of merchandise office supplies and opportunistic one-time buys.