The nine largest healthcare contract food service companies

The Food Management Top 50 includes companies operating in a wide range of onsite markets, with most specializing in one or two while some others are diversified into multiple segments. The latter is especially true of the so-called “Big Three” of Compass Group, Sodexo and Aramark but also of other firms like Elior, Metz and Continental Services.

In this adjunct listing to the full Top 50, we break out the nine entries that have the largest volume of business in the healthcare and senior dining markets. We decided to conflate these two areas because that is what the three largest companies do in their reporting on their activities and there is no reliable way to tease out how much of the reported volume is from which market.

It should also be noted that Compass, Sodexo and Aramark don’t distinguish food and non-food operations in reporting the amount of business they do in “healthcare” or any other segment, so that should be kept in mind when reviewing FM Top 50 data.

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