Off the Aramark / New Haven schools have two months to learn how to serve 5 million lunches
Source: By Betsy Yagla, New Haven Advocate, Tuesday, May 20, 2008
...... After a long and hard-fought battle, unionized school cafeteria workers succeeded in forcing New Haven public schools to put Aramark's 14-year-old food service contract out to bid. (Aramark continues to manage school maintenance.) When none of the bids were up to snuff, the schools decided to take the program in-house. Aramark's contract ends June 30. The following day, the job of running a healthy, cost-effective lunch program falls to the Board of Education.
.... Has Aramark been skimping on food to city schools since losing its lucrative contract as food service provider? Several cafeteria workers say it has, and suspect retaliation. "We're down to one entrée," says Grace Daniele, a shop steward and cook at Nathan Hale School.
....... Daniele says she used to serve three or four meal choices at lunch time. "It changed completely after they were notified they'd no longer be our management company," says Daniele.