7 CFR § 65.140 - Food service establishment.

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title: "7 CFR § 65.140 - Food service establishment."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "65.140"
section_name: "Food service establishment."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 AND THE EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT"
part_number: "65"
part_name: "COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING OF LAMB, CHICKEN, AND GOAT MEAT, PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES, MACADAMIA NUTS, PECANS, PEANUTS, AND GINSENG"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 1621"
regulatory_source: "74 FR 2704, Jan. 15, 2009, unless otherwise noted."
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# 65.140 Food service establishment.

*Food service establishment* means a restaurant, cafeteria, lunch room, food stand, saloon, tavern, bar, lounge, or other similar facility operated as an enterprise engaged in the business of selling food to the public. Similar food service facilities include salad bars, delicatessens, and other food enterprises located within retail establishments that provide ready-to-eat foods that are consumed either on or outside of the retailer's premises.