Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 92 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Article 19 - KANSAS RETAILERS' SALES TAX
Section 92-19-21 - Meals or drinks

(a) Each boardinghouse shall pay the tax on their purchases of food and other supplies. When a boardinghouse serves meals only to persons regularly boarding there and not to the public, sales of these meals are not taxable. However, if a boardinghouse holds itself out as ready and willing to serve meals to the public, the sale of each meal shall be taxable.

(b) When meals are furnished by employers to employees and a charge is made, the employer must remit the tax on the price of the sales. When meals are finished by employers to employees at no charge, the furnishing of meals does not constitute a sale and is not taxable.

(c) When a private or public elementary or secondary school, or a public or private nonprofit educational institution operates its lunch room, cafeteria, or dining room for the purpose of providing meals for its respective students or teachers, the school or institution shall not be considered to be engaged in the business of regularly selling meals or drinks to the public and shall not collect or remit tax on these sales.

When a public or private elementary or secondary school or a public or private nonprofit educational institution makes its cafeteria, lunch room, or dining room available for use by the general public, the school or institution shall be considered to be in the business of conducting a place in which meals or drinks are regularly sold to the public, and shall collect and remit the sales tax. A caterer or concessionaire operating a cafeteria, lunch or dining room on the premises of any public or private elementary or secondary school or public or private nonprofit educational institution shall collect and remit sales tax.

(d) When a public or private nonprofit hospital operates a lunch room, cafeteria, or dining room for the exclusive purpose of providing meals for its respective employees and staff the hospital shall not be considered to be engaged in conducting a place where meals or drinks are regularly sold to the public and shall not collect and remit tax on these sales.

When a public or private nonprofit hospital makes its cafeteria, lunch room, or dining room available for use by the general public, the hospital shall be considered to be in the business of conducting a place where meals or drinks are regularly sold to the public and shall collect and remit the sales tax. Caterers or concessionaires operating cafeterias, lunch, or dining rooms on the premises of any public or private nonprofit hospital shall collect and remit sales tax.

(e) The sale of a meal or other tangible personal property, consumed or not, while on a railway train or a dining car operated in or through Kansas, is deemed a sale at retail. Gross receipts from the sale of meals or other tangible personal property are taxable if the meals or tangible personal property are ordered within the boundaries of Kansas.