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This regulation prescribes policies, responsibilities, objectives, and basic standards for the implementation and management of Army subsistence and food service programs in garrison and field operations, to include the following:

a. Dining facility operations. This regulation includes policies for the operation of full-time dining facilities. Reserve Component (RC) inactive duty training (IDT) dining facilities will follow the policies in this regulation. Procedures for operation of dining facilities will reside in the applicable automated Management Information System (MIS). Procedures that are not part of the applicable MIS will be described in Department of the Army Pamphlet (DA Pam) 30-22. The policies, responsibilities, and limitations for the contracting of food service operations are also included.

b. Food service operations during field training operations. This regulation details the policies for requesting, receiving, issuing, and accounting for subsistence during field training. It provides guidance for special food allowances and the use of unitized operational rations and the return of residual rations.

c. Troop Issue Subsistence Activities and branches. This regulation establishes policies for the operation of Army Troop Issue Subsistence Activities (TISAs). Also, it discusses requisitioning, receiving, accounting for, issuing, transferring, salvaging, disposing, and turn-in of subsistence.

d. Special programs. This regulation describes the awards programs associated with the Army's subsistence and food service programs.

e. Menus, nutrition awareness, and boards. This regulation provides policies for implementation of menus in dining facilities operating under the Army Ration Credit System (ARCS), provides guidance for nutrition awareness, establishes menu standards, and outlines the parameters for installation food service management boards (FSMBs).

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve. During mobilization, the proponent may modify chapters and policies contained in this regulation. This regulation is not applicable to cadet mess dining facilities at U.S. military academies; academies are governed by Department of Defense Regulation 7000.14-R, volume 12, chapter 20.