ARAMARK Gets Students in Tune with Good Nutrition During National School Lunch Week

"National School Lunch Week is an annual opportunity for ARAMARKand its district partners to celebrate our commitment to healthylifestyles," said Jeff Wheatley, President, ARAMARK Education, SchoolSupport Services. "We are dedicated to providing students withnutritious meal options to help optimize their ability to learn."

In honor of this year's National School Lunch Week, ARAMARK hasdeveloped nutrition-related educational tools, posters, banners,letters to parents, advertisements in school papers, public addressannouncements, and graphics to communicate the importance of adoptinga healthy lifestyle. ARAMARK-managed school districts will beheralding National School Lunch Week in a variety of ways. A fewexamples include:

-- St. Louis Public Schools (MO) is featuring a "Build a Crazy Sandwich Bar" allowing middle and high school students to build their own sandwiches.

-- Murrell Dobbins Career and Technical High School in the School District of Philadelphia (PA) is hosting an International Guest Chef from Belgium as part of ARAMARK's international exchange program. The chef will showcase his cooking techniques to the school's culinary students.

-- Spike(R), ARAMARK's nutrition mascot, is visiting various school districts to encourage elementary students that eating a nutritious lunch will help them gain the energy they need to succeed at their favorite activities inside and outside of the classroom.

-- At Lewisville Independent School District (TX), students who purchase a well-balanced lunch will receive a Spike(R) coloring sheet to participate in a coloring contest for a chance to win gift cards.

-- High School principals and the ARAMARK team at Lubbock Independent School District (TX) are hosting Treat Yourself Right nutrition booths to provide students with information about the new food guide pyramid and portion size displays.

Established by former President John F. Kennedy in 1963, NationalSchool Lunch Week helps raise awareness of and build support for therole played by school food service and nutrition programs in the livesof American children.

Much has changed in school food service since that proclamation inthe 1960s. ARAMARK is doing its part to shatter some oldmisconceptions of the school cafeteria experience.

These days, students are lining up for Meatball Bombers,Beef-a-yaki, Chicken Grande, and Santa Fe Turkey. Additionally,students are enjoying new colors infused throughout the lunchroom,sophisticated lighting, new food packaging, and student lounge areas,complete with furniture, music and graphics in ARAMARK's 12 Spot andU.B.U. Lounge. These research-based programs were designed by ARAMARKto encourage middle and high school students to enjoy a nutritiousdining experience at school while providing them with recipes thathave been created to meet strict nutritional standards and optionsthey want. These programs are extremely successful at ARAMARK-managedschool districts across the country and were selected as a 2005 winnerin Nation's Restaurant News magazine's MenuMasters Award for BestOn-Site Operator Menu.

ARAMARK's focus on nutrition awareness helps students makeinformed, well-balanced choices whether eating in or outside ofschool.

For younger students, ARAMARK calls on the help of One World Cafe,a dining solution that combines updated, kid-tested recipes withcolorful graphics and promotions so students enjoy fresh andnutritious food in an exciting, colorful setting more like the placesthey eat outside of school.

For secondary-level students, ARAMARK recently launched the FUELcampaign, intended to help shift the student perception of schoollunch by making it "cool" and relevant to them. Tapping into theunbridled enthusiasm and motivation of youth, FUEL promotesnutritional awareness throughout the school with advertisements,posters, PA announcements, decals, notepads, stickers and aninteractive Web site, www.FUEL4me.com.

Initiatives such as One World Cafe and FUEL help increase studentparticipation in school meals and promote nutrition education so youngminds are properly fueled for learning.

ARAMARK Education provides a complete range of food, facility,uniform and other support services to more than 650 K-12 schooldistricts in the U.S. It offers public and private educationinstitutions a family of dining and facility services including:on-site and off-site breakfast and lunch meal programs, after-schoolsnacks, summer and adult feeding, catering, nutrition education,retail design and operations, maintenance, custodial, grounds, energymanagement, construction management and building commissioning. Formore information on ARAMARK's K-12 food service programs, please visitwww.aramarkschoolfood.com.

About ARAMARK

ARAMARK Corporation is a world leader in providing award-winningfood and facilities management services to health care institutions,universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, andcorporations, as well as providing uniform and career apparel. ARAMARKwas ranked number one in its industry in the 2005 FORTUNE 500 surveyand was also named one of "America's Most Admired Companies" byFORTUNE magazine in 2005, consistently ranking since 1998 as one ofthe top three most admired companies in its industry as evaluated bypeers. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately242,500 employees serving clients in 20 countries.