Catering: the evolution of industry, market characteristics, modern classification, particularities of accounting process
In the article the author deals with the concept of catering services, examines elements of market structure of public catering, including a system of objects and subjects, grounded socio-economic importance of the market of services of public catering. The scientific interests of the author focuses on the study of aspects of the genesis and evolution of public catering enterprises, establishment factors that determine the direction of the historical development of the industry. The study undertaken by the author's attempt of structuring the historical path of development of the industry enterprises with the simultaneous determination of the conditions of creation, functioning, development, transformation, and disappearance of different types of public catering enterprises. In connection with the critical evaluation of the existing classification of public catering enterprises of the proposed amended classification, including modern trends in restaurant business in coherence with the peculiarities of the functioning and implementation of accounting process.