Restaurant Associates is food service, restaurant and catering company headquartered in New York City. The company operates in more than 150 locations. It provides food services to educational facilities, museums, performing arts centers, zoos and aquariums. The company also offers food services to events organized in New York City, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Washington, D.C., Cleveland and Philadelphia. Restaurant Associates provides corporate dining services to companies in a variety of industries, including technology, advertising, sports, publishing and media, banking and financial, and beauty and fashion. The company serves the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Museum of Natural History and Lincoln Center in New York. Restaurant Associates is a subsidiary of Compass Group, which is one of the leading food service organizations in the world.