Inventory of Food Products and Beverages in Establishments that Serve Food for On-Premise Consumption

Excerpts from the report: This report presents a special tabulation of food products and beverages on hand in establishments that generally serve food for on-premise consumption. The data were collected in early 1964 and reported first in May 1965 in Marketing Research Report 707, "Estimated Number of Days' Supply of Food and Beverages in Establishments that Serve Food for On-Premise Consumption—A Civil Defense Study." The information in MRR707 is shown in days' supply measured in caloric values and fluid ounces. Although these are desirable units for planning emergency feeding programs and for other civil defense activities, they are not as meaningful as pound units to those associated with the food industry. Consequently, this supplement gives the food and beverage inventory data in pounds. Data are listed for major food groups by the establishment's kind of business and type of operation, and for individual food products. Inventories were developed from a national sample of approximately 7,000 establishments with employees in kinds of business that serve food for on-premise consumption. Establishments from each kind of business were selected on a probability basis according to size and geographic location, with reported number of employees as the measure of size.