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Class 🏨 I Accommodation and Food Service

56.21 — Event Catering Activities

56.21
Class
Event catering activities
SDMX: I5621
Class Level
4 Depth
0 Children
1 Siblings
📋 Official Classification Notes

✓ Includes

This class includes the provision of food and supply, based on contractual agreements, at the location specified by the customer, for a specific event.

✗ Excludes

This class excludes: - manufacture of perishable food items, see 10.89 - retail sale of perishable food items, see 47.2

Frequently Confused With

10.89
Manufacture of other food products n.e.c.
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 47.2
Retail sale of food, beverages and tobacco
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Who is this code for?

Verified: SEMANTIC_SECTION_MATRIX

Hotel and accommodation managers and directors

SOC 2020:1221
Common titles: Hotel manager, B&B owner
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 1411

Restaurant and catering establishment managers and directors

SOC 2020:1223
Common titles: Restaurant manager, Catering manager
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 1412

Chefs

SOC 2020:5434
Common titles: Chef, Head cook
SOC 2020 Official Source ISCO-08: 3434

Related Occupations

Waiters and waitressesOther elementary services occupations n.e.c.

Evidence: Representative SOC 2020 occupations for SIC Section I (Event catering activities).

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Data source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) — UK SIC 2026
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