Food portions sales in a canteen context

In the catering industry, one major challenge is the unknown short-term demand for dish portions. Meeting these demands is important for the industry but predicting future sales is a challenging task.This data set presents sales of food portions from a canteen in absolute numbers of dish portions per day. In particular, the columns include text-based extractions of ingredients and a date. The data set is intended to be used for forecasting/predicting the food portions on a daily level.