service industry
noun
: a type of business that provides services to customers rather than producing a product
jobs in the service industries
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Intended to address restaurant labor shortages and improve efficiency, machinery automating some tasks have shown themselves to be expensive to build and maintain, let alone scale widely across the food service industry.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
She’s worked in the retail, marketing, sales and service industry for a long time and Michael is retired from the Marines.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2026
Tami brought years of corporate retail experience, while Kopplin experimented with recipes and used her service industry connections.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 20 Feb. 2026
The worry is that these products, emerging from the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI, will displace the software-as-a-service industry’s longstanding business models as firms lean on quicker and more efficient AI tools.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
She’s worked in the retail, marketing, sales and service industry for a long time and Michael is retired from the Marines.
—Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2026
Tami brought years of corporate retail experience, while Kopplin experimented with recipes and used her service industry connections.
—Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 20 Feb. 2026
The worry is that these products, emerging from the likes of Anthropic and OpenAI, will displace the software-as-a-service industry’s longstanding business models as firms lean on quicker and more efficient AI tools.
—Samantha Subin, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Service industry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20industry. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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