The Downsizing of U.S. Food-Service Companies

Abstract

A survey of corporate food-service managers throughout the United States reveals that the downsizing of corporate food service was prevalent in all economic sectors and locations in the first half of the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1994 there was a rapid escalation of downsizing activities in both the host organizations and the food-service units within them. Although the numbers of food-service units and host organizations that downsized were identical, reductions occurred more frequently and with greater severity in the organizations served than in the food-service units.