How to Use food service in a Sentence

food service

noun
  • My first job in food service taught me that not all sneakers are made equal.
    — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
  • Kintsugi can breathe new life into cherished old items, but they should be removed from food service.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Many Venezuelan immigrants here work in food service — at restaurants or selling meals from their homes.
    — Elliot Spagat, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Many of these are custodians, laundry workers and food services workers.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Annual sales now top $10 million per year, split evenly between food service and retail.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In both retail and food service, standing out has become the main factor that separates winners from those struggling.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The cheeses were sold at retail in 8-ounce or 16-ounce packages as well as to food service customers or wholesalers in 5-pound loaves.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • BAMJoy leads all food service, including the restaurant, café and catering.
    — Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The college earmarked about half the funding for a new kitchen and kinesiology space to improve food service and create a catering kitchen for school events.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the food service steam table and hot box had the opposite problem — unable to keep its food contents at or above 135 degrees.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Multiple flying insects throughout entire food service space.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Police believe the alleged misconduct dates back to at least 2022 when Bumper was brought on as the new food services director.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Workers can earn certificates in a variety of fields, from food service to healthcare, according to the Census Bureau.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Growth was powered by government spending, as well as accommodation and food service activities.
    — Lee Ying Shan,davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The food service area cooler measured 47 to 49 degrees and the kitchen cooler measured 53 to 54 degrees.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2026
  • Analysts have suggested that the World Cup could be boosting hiring in food services and hotels, so this monthly move might be a weird statistical quirk.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Of the Oklahomans being paid below the minimum wage, about 30% are working in food service, which is the most likely industry to underpay.
    — Emma Murphy, Oklahoma Voice, 13 May 2026
  • Retail, food service and other workers who handle many receipts every day would be exposed to doses about 100 times higher than that, the researchers estimated.
    — Sean McCann, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The Health Department also thoroughly reviewed food service operations at the farm and did not identify any concerns, Conners said.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • It’ll be piloted in an unspecified part of northern California with local food services, including Chipotle and Popeyes.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Florence Simpson, deputy director of food services at LAUSD, said the district is seeing less food in trash cans and kids enjoying their meals more — meals which are served three times a day.
    — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The spidey senses of a Monterey school administrator started tingling when an invoice the food services director submitted for eggs, bacon and potatoes at Costco came with an exorbitant price tag.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The same coverage describes cappuccino replacing cocktails as DJ sets and brunch come together in the daytime, putting high-margin drinks and food service inside the format rather than treating them as an afterthought.
    — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 21 Sep. 2026
  • But all the growth involved entertainment and recreation, as the subset involving hotel and food service workers lost 11,000 jobs in August and 2,900 over the year.
    — Jim Turner, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Those actions have been completed, and the restaurant’s food service permit has been reinstated by Environmental Health Specialists, officials said.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Roughly 40% of workers in healthcare support, food service, farming, fishing, forestry, construction and repair occupations hold NDCs.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Clothing and accessory revenue declined by 75% and food services dipped 24% in 2025 when compared with 2015, according to the report.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • One late-October morning, in a large prep space hidden from view of the dining room, Hope the Mission senior director of food services Jason Moniz sprinkled salt onto oversized peanut butter cookies.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Collectively, the hotels employ more than 7,000 room attendants, cooks, dishwashers, front desk agents, servers, and food service workers at more than 40 hotels downtown and near McCormick Place.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • To obtain the license, street vendors would need to pay a $500 fee every two years, receive a food service sanitation certificate and complete a health consultation with the Chicago Department of Public Health.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2026

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