District's Aramark deal questioned
Source: By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer (PA), Fri, Sep. 28, 2007
Two national unions that represent cafeteria and custodial employees in the Philadelphia School District yesterday called on Gov. Rendell to appoint an independent auditor to investigate the state-run district's recently severed contract with the Aramark food-service company. The unions said the district's full-service cafeterias continued to operate in the red under Aramark, finishing with a $4 million deficit in 2005-06 - the first year they were managed by Aramark - and a nearly $7 million shortfall last June.
...... "The community has the right to know why Aramark was not able to live up to its proposed sales and expense projections, which resulted in continued deficits for the school district," said the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Unite Here.