3717-1-01(B)(48) State of Ohio Uniform Food Safety Code and definitions

"Food service operation":

(a)

Means a place, location, site, or separate area where food intended to be served in individual portions is prepared or served for a charge or mandatory donation. As used in this definition, "served" means a response made to an order for one or more individual portions of food in a form that is edible without washing, cooking, or additional preparation and "prepared" means any action that affects a food other than receiving or maintaining it at the temperature at which it was received;

(b)

Includes a catering food service operation, a food delivery sales operation, a mobile food service operation, temporary food service operation, seasonal food service operation, and a vending machine location; and

(c)

Does not include those operations exempted in section 3717.42 of the Revised Code.