ARAMARK Corporation is the oldest and most experienced firm in the field of food service management. ARAMARK traces it's history back to 1926, when the Slater Corporation was founded in a fraternity house on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Slater Corporation initially managed dining service programs in colleges, then expanded to business and industry, vending, and hospitals.
As Slater Corporation was expanding it's manual food service business, two other companies which were to join later as the founding companies or ARAMARK were also developing in the late 1930s and '40s. Davidson Brothers Inc. and Automatic Retailers
Merchandising Company merged and formed Automatic Retailers of America. In 1961, Automatic Retailers of America (then doing approximately 65 million dollars in vending sales) merged with Slater Corporation (doing approximately 65 millon dollars in manual service sales) and the company was renamed ARA Services, Inc. In 1963, ARA was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Since 1961, ARA has grown from a company managing 130 million dollars of food service business to a company managing nearly 5 billion dollars of diversified services.Today we specialize in the management of services in the food and refreshment, health care, environmental and janitorial services, uniform and clothing rental, and magazine and book distribution industries. In the most recent chapter of our company history, on October 10, 1994, ARA Services, Inc. officially became ARAMARK.
At the end of 1984, ARA became a privately held company. ARAMARK is now owned by it's employees, who have played a major role in the Company's success and will help to shape it's future. Employee ownership means an even greater commitment to the quality of service we provide to over 10 million people daily and a deeper concern for expanding ARAMARK's portfolio of services to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
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For further information you may contact the following: At campus Ext. 2701or 2702
*Gene Hood-Director of Dining Services.............(908) 222-1444 or Fax:(908)222-0885
*Donna Wehner-Office Manager
*Anthony Fedor-Food Production Manager
*Ray Lamela-Catering Manger
*Dan Iraggi-Student Center Cafeteria (908) 229-5006 At campus Ext. 2701-2702
*Andy Bidwell-Assistant Food Service Manager
