Service enterprises include many kinds of businesses. Examples include dry cleaners, shoe stores, barber shops, restaurants, ski resorts, , and hotels. In many cases service are moderately small because they do have mechanized services and limit service only as many individuals as they accommodate at one time. For example, waiter may be able to provide service to four tables at once, with five or more tables, customer will suffer.
In recent years the of service enterprises in wealthier free-market has grown rapidly, and spending on now accounts for a significant percentage all spending. For example, private services for about 20 percent of U.S. in 1994. Wealthier nations have developed economies, where entertainment and recreation businesses replaced most raw material extraction such the mining of mineral ores, and manufacturing industries. Many of these industries moved to developing nations, especially with rise of large multinational corporations. As economies have accumulated wealth, they have to support systems of leisure, in people are willing to pay others do things for them. In the States, vast numbers of people work schedules for long hours in indoor , stores, and factories. Many employers pay enough wages so that employees can to balance their work schedules with recreation. People in the United States, example, support thriving travel, theme park, , and recreational sport businesses.