Today provisioning means “providing consumer groups with food and drink in certain institutions, e.g. businesses, hospitals, retirement homes, barracks, playschools, and schools,” as well as certain forms of off-site catering [1]. The English sense of “providing food” goes back to the 16th century; the German equivalent (Gemeinschaftsverpflegung) is a 20th-century coinage; the 1897 edition of the Grimms’ dictionary does not mention it.