Food & Beverage is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F & B is the accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector or industry that specializes in conceptualizing, creating, and delivering food. Most of the employees of F & B are in restaurants and bars, including hotels, resorts and casinos.

A drink or drink is a liquid specifically prepared for human consumption. Besides filling a basic human need, beverages form part of the culture of human society.

Food is any substance used for nutritional support for the body. In general, plant or animal origin, and contains essential nutrients like carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals. The substance is occupied by an organism and metabolized by cells of the body, in an attempt to produce energy and sustain life, and / or growth.

Historically, people claim to power through two methods: hunting and gathering, and agriculture. Today, most of the food energy consumed by the population of the world by the food industry, operated by multinational companies that intensive agriculture and industrial agriculture to make the system output to maximize.

Food security and food safety are monitored by bodies like the International Association for Food Protection, World Resources Institute, World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture, and the International Food Information Council. Issues such as sustainability, biodiversity, climate change, economic aspects of nutrition, population, water supply, and access to food.

The right to food a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognizes "the right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food" and "fundamental right to be free from hunger"