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Sec. 395. Food establishment—definition.

The term "Food Establishment" shall be construed to mean
any place (except where used principally as a private home) in
which food products are manufactured, prepared, packed, handled,
stored, sold or distributed and shall include hotels, inns,
boarding houses (where there are more than five boarders),
restaurants, cafes, lunch counters, all public eating houses, and
the kitchens thereof; all bakeries, bake shops, delicatessens, confectioneries,
candy factories, ice cream factories, and parlors,
refreshment stands, soda fountains, fruit stores, fruit stands,
wagons from which food is sold, groceries, markets, meat markets,
bottling plants, places where milk is bottled or exposed for
sale, and other similar places.