Food and beverage service activities

Division 56 covers food and beverage service. Its groups are restaurants and mobile food service (56.1), event and contract catering (56.2), beverage serving — bars (56.3) and intermediation (56.4). It is the most labour-intensive part of the section, with many small firms. Equity is often thin or negative, margins are low, and business turnover is high.

4,299 companies in Latvia are classified under NACE code 56.