By Jeremiah Tattersall

All of the food officially sold on campus, from Arredondo Café to Starbucks, is controlled by Aramark, a private corporation with a shady history at UF.
These are the people who decide what food businesses are allowed to operate on campus and what meal plans are offered.
The only place that non-Aramark food can be bought is [...]

By Esteban O Sullivan

Aramark, UF’s food service supplier, has agreed to pay a penny and a half more per pound for the tomatoes they purchase – a premium that will go directly toward increasing the wages of tomato pickers.
UF Student/Farmworker Alliance members heard the decision on March 22.
“We had heard from the [Coalition of Immokalee Workers] two weeks [...]

By Esteban O Sullivan

Aramark meets with SFA
Update: In yet another victory for the Immokalee workers, Aramark has agreed to the CIW’s demands, and agreed to a 1.5-cent-per-pound increase on the tomatoes it buys, as well as mandating that its suppliers adhere to a code of conduct in their treatment of workers.
Executives from Aramark met with members of the [...]

By Kristen Abdullah and Richard Blake

As we made the four-hour journey south to tomato-town Immokalee, Fla., we ran through the itinerary for the long weekend to come and familiarized ourselves with the 40-plus pages of reading material that we were supposed to have completed three weeks before.
The thick packet of literature included stories like “Immokalee family sentenced for slavery,” [...]

By Travis Pillow

Aramark Correctional Services plans to cut ties with the Florida Department of Corrections in September. It will serve its last meal to Florida prisoners on Jan. 9, 2009 due to the 90-day termination clause in its contract.
Aramark had the contract for a turbulent seven years, marked by fines and wrangling over budget cuts and profit [...]