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NOGA 56 Food and beverage service activities
Activity from the Swiss General Classification of Economic Activities (NOGA 2025), published by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The full dataset (NACE 2.1 + ISIC 4 cross-walks) is included in Classifications (399 CHF).
56Multilingual description
NOGA 2025 provides the official designation in the four languages used by the Swiss federal authorities, alongside their European equivalents.
| Language | Designation |
|---|---|
| Français (fr) | Activités de service de restauration |
| Deutsch (de) | Gastronomie |
| Italiano (it) | Attività di servizi di ristorazione |
| English (en) | Food and beverage service activities |
NOGA hierarchy
The NOGA code 56 sits within the following hierarchy (from broadest to most specific).
Direct sub-levels
This code breaks down into 4 more specific sub-levels.
| Level | Code | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| group | 56.1 | Restaurants and mobile food service activities |
| group | 56.2 | Event catering, contract catering service activities and other food service activities |
| group | 56.3 | Beverage serving activities |
| group | 56.4 | Intermediation service activities for food and beverage services activities |
Official cross-walks
Equivalence of NOGA code 56 in the European (NACE) and international (ISIC) standards, from the official FSO and Eurostat tables.
| Standard | Code | Designation | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| NACE Rev 2.1 | 56 | 56 Food and beverage service activities | exact |
| NACE Rev 2.0 | 79 | Travel agency, tour operator and other reservation service and related activities | exact |
| ISIC Rev 4 | 56 | Food and beverage service activities | exact |
| NOGA 2008 | 79 | Activités d’agence de voyage, de voyagiste, de service de réservation et de services connexes | exact |
| NACE Rev 2.1 | 56 | 56 Food and beverage service activities | exact |
| NACE Rev 2.0 | 56 | Food and beverage service activities | exact |
| ISIC Rev 4 | 56 | Food and beverage service activities | exact |
| NOGA 2008 | 56 | Activités de service de restauration | exact |
Type exact = strict 1:1 equivalence. partial = partial overlap. multi = one source code maps to several target codes.
Neighbouring codes
NOGA codes close to 56, within the same parent group or at the same hierarchical level.
| Code | Level | Designation |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | division | Accommodation |
| 58 | division | Publishing activities |
| 53 | division | Postal and courier activities |
| 59 | division | Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities |
| 52 | division | Warehousing, storage and support activities for transportation |
| 60 | division | Programming, broadcasting, news agency and other content distribution activities |
| 51 | division | Air transport |
| 61 | division | Telecommunication |
Activity examples
Company profiles typically classified under NOGA code 56.
A company whose main activity falls under "Food and beverage service activities" is classified under NOGA code 56.
This category covers service companies, firms, agencies and sole traders whose main offering matches this activity: consulting firms, professional practices and independent providers.
The code is assigned on the principle of the main economic activity: if an entity has several activities, the one generating the most value added determines the classification.
How this code is used
NOGA code 56 is used by the Swiss federal authorities to classify companies by their main economic activity, notably:
- Federal Statistical Office (FSO): business and establishment register (BER), censuses and structural statistics.
- OASI compensation funds: classification of the employer's activity at registration.
- Federal Tax Administration (FTA): VAT profiling, net tax debt rates and sector statistics.
- Commercial register: "activities" field when registering a new legal entity.
- SUVA and accident-insurance funds: pricing of accident-insurance contributions by risk class.
- SECO and labour-market statistics: sector analyses and targeted support measures.
Official source
This page reproduces information from the NOGA 2025 standard published by the Federal Statistical Office. For the official version:
bfs.admin.ch — NOGA — General Classification of Economic Activities
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