City schools sever tie to Aramark
Source: By Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer (PA), Wed, Sep. 26, 2007
The Philadelphia School District will end its contract with Aramark to run full-service cafeterias in 115 of the district's 267 schools, officials announced yesterday.
As of Oct. 1, the school district will take back the operations and run the cafeterias, which Aramark has run for the last two years.
District officials said earlier this month that they were unhappy that the company had not helped the district erase a long-standing deficit in its full-service cafeteria operations and were considering terminating the five-year contract - renewable annually - after the first two full years.