NAICS 722310 food service contractor obligations

Meals as a contracted service

NAICS 722310 covers food service contractors — firms that provide meals under contract at facilities they do not necessarily own. Contracting officers use it when the principal purpose is that contracted feeding. Grocery wholesale, farming, and restaurant NAICS codes, when used, live on other hubs and are not inside $6,876,381,888.33.

Three thousand one hundred twenty awards produced a mean of about $2.2 million. Federal feeding is often bought as dining-facility or mess-hall vehicles covering option years, which pulls the mean above a single-meal invoice. The packet does not count meals, calories, or dining sites.

Emergency and other relief services (624230) can include feeding in a disaster context when tagged that way. Those dollars are not automatically in 722310. Each code’s hub is its own tagged slice.

Food-related NAICS codes split contracted feeding from grocery manufacturing and from nutrition assistance. Food service contractors (722310) hold $6,876,381,888.33 on 3,120 awards, about $2.2 million per award. Emergency relief (624230) can include feeding when tagged that way, but those dollars are not automatically in 722310. SNAP and school-meal grants typically lack this NAICS.

Dining vehicles and the obligation clock

Food-service contracts typically obligate estimated meal service and pay as periods are performed or as meal counts are invoiced. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $6.9 billion as meals already served would overstate cash.

The 3,120-award count is not a meal count. Multiple sites can sit inside one award. Dividing dollars by awards is not a cost per meal.

What sits outside 722310

SNAP, school-meal grants, and other nutrition assistance typically lack this NAICS and do not enter the industry total. Manufacturing of food products uses manufacturing codes. Those pages are not subsets of $6,876,381,888.33.

A contract that both feeds people and runs a relief camp will carry one principal NAICS. Only 722310-tagged actions sit here.

In-house government cafeterias staffed by federal employees are not 722310 contracts. Meals bought through a relief or support NAICS will not appear here unless the officer chose 722310 as the principal tag. This $6.9 billion is the tagged contractor slice.

How to use the 722310 hub

Read $6.9 billion and 3,120 awards as the food-service-contractor tag, then open the food service contractors industry page for award-level fields. Rank 722 codes on the all-industries index without converting them into a nutrition program budget.

This guide does not add meal counts because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

In-house government cafeterias staffed by federal employees are not 722310 contracts. Meals bought through a relief or support NAICS will not appear here. SpendingVault reports the tagged contractor sum.

Extract updates will move $6,876,381,888.33 and 3,120 with USAspending.

How to keep nutrition grants out of the dining-contract total

If the question is “how much did the government spend on meals,” this page is incomplete. If the question is “how much did USAspending tag to NAICS 722310 on contracts,” the answer is $6.9 billion across 3,120 awards.

Open the food service contractors industry page for award-level fields. Rank 722 codes without converting them into a nutrition-program budget. Cite USAspending.gov. No meal count appears in the packet, so $2.2 million is not a cost per plate. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on unused option years.

Food-service contractors at $6,876,381,888.33 on 3,120 awards are a dining-vehicle tag. The mean of about $2.2 million is not a cost per meal. Meal counts are not in the packet. SNAP and school-meal grants typically lack this NAICS.

Emergency-relief contracts can include feeding when tagged that way, but those dollars are not automatically in 722310. Open the food service contractors industry page for award-level fields. Cite USAspending.gov. In-house cafeterias staffed by federal employees are not this contract tag. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid.

Three thousand one hundred twenty dining-contractor awards at $6,876,381,888.33 are facility-feeding vehicles, not SNAP. School-meal grants typically omit this NAICS. Emergency-relief feeding tagged 624230 is a different page. Meal counts are absent from the packet, so $2.2 million is not a per-plate price. Open the food service contractors industry page. Cite USAspending.gov.

The 3,120-award count next to $6,876,381,888.33 is dining-contractor thickness. Rank 722310 without converting the tag into nutrition grants or into emergency-relief contracts filed under another NAICS.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 722310?

Food service contractor contracts in USAspending show $6,876,381,888.33 in obligations across 3,120 awards. That is a contracted-feeding tag, not grocery manufacturing and not SNAP. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded. Award rows are on the industry page.

What is the average food-service award?

Dividing $6,876,381,888.33 by 3,120 awards yields about $2.2 million. That mean often reflects multi-year dining vehicles rather than a single-meal price. The packet does not publish a meal count, a median, or a site count. The industry page lists award-level amounts; this packet has no meal count to convert the mean into a per-plate price.

Does this include school-lunch grants?

Usually no. School-meal and other nutrition assistance often lack NAICS 722310. This $6.9 billion is built from contract awards tagged to food service contractors. Program pages are the better surface for assistance listings. Program pages remain the better surface for school-meal and other nutrition assistance that never received NAICS 722310.

Is emergency feeding part of NAICS 722310?

Only if the officer tagged the action 722310. Emergency and other relief services are NAICS 624230, a separate hub. Mixed relief-and-feeding contracts follow the principal NAICS. Use each industry page for its tagged total. Use the 624230 hub for emergency-relief contracts and this hub for the food-service-contractor tag.