ARAMARK Continues to Support Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts Throughout Texas and around the Country.PHILADELPHIA & HOUSTON -- ARAMARK remains focused on ensuring the safety of our employees and helping our clients, customers and communities. Our teams on the ground are helping their communities nourish nour·ish v. To provide with food or other substances necessary for sustaining life and growth. , house and otherwise sustain tens of thousands of displaced displaced see displacement. people. ARAMARK in Texas (as of September 8, 2005) Since evacuees Resident or transient persons who have been ordered or authorized to move by competent authorities, and whose movement and accommodation are planned, organized and controlled by such authorities. began arriving in Houston from the Gulf Coast areas devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by Hurricane Katrina
• • [ , Reliant Arena The Reliant Arena, formerly the "Astroarena", is a 350,000 square feet (33,000 m²) sports center in Reliant Park, in Houston, Texas. It is one of the state's major arenas and convention centers. and Reliant Center Reliant Center is a convention center in Houston, Texas, part of the Reliant Park complex that was constructed around the Astrodome Reliant Stadium. Reliant Center hosts various events year-round, including portions of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, who maintains its offices , and George R. Brown Convention Center The George R. Brown Convention Center was opened on September 26, 1987 on the east side of downtown Houston. The center was named for the prominent Houstonian George R. Brown, an entrepreneur, civic leader and philanthropist. , as well as additional law enforcement officials, American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. and medical personnel, and volunteers. ARAMARK also is providing all facility services, including cleaning and garbage collection A software routine that searches memory for areas of inactive data and instructions in order to reclaim that space for the general memory pool (the heap). Operating systems may or may not provide this feature. , at these locations. ARAMARK employees from Reliant Park, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Independent School District The Houston Independent School District (HISD) is the largest public school system in Texas and the seventh-largest in the United States.[1] Houston ISD serves as a community school district for most of the city of Houston and several nearby and insular municipalities. and Minute Maid Park • • [ are working around the clock with the help of more than 1,325 volunteers to prepare, deliver and serve meals and snacks, transport and unload To remove a program from memory or take a tape or disk out of its drive. food shipments, stock the warehouse, wash cooking equipment, empty trash cans In the Macintosh, a simulated garbage can used for deleting files and folders. The trash can keeps the files intact in case the user wants to restore them, but can be "emptied" from time to time to save disk space. , mop floors, and clean bathrooms and showers.
Food Service Facts
-- 635,000 meals served since evacuees began arriving on Wednesday,
August 31.
-- More than 110,000 meals served per day.
-- 90,000 lbs of ice distributed each day.
-- 1,670 ARAMARK employees and volunteers prepare and serve meals
daily.
-- 1.25 million bottles of water consumed.
-- 500,000 cans of soda consumed.
-- Beverages, snacks and fruit available 24 hours a day.
Facility Services Facts
-- More than 12 tons of trash collected daily.
-- 660 bathrooms cleaned and re-stocked each day.
-- 175 showers cleaned daily.
-- 20,000 rolls of toilet paper used each day.
-- 250 mops used to clean floors daily.
-- 30,000 garbage bags used to date.
Other locations in Texas at which ARAMARK is providing support
include:
-- Kelly Air Force Base (San Antonio, TX)
Preparing to serve approximately 10,000 evacuees.
-- Austin Convention Center (Austin, TX)
Preparing to serve approximately 4,000 evacuees.
-- Palmer Event Center (Austin, TX)
Serving approximately 500 evacuees.
-- Will Rogers Center (Fort Worth, TX)
Serving approximately 500 evacuees.
-- Houston Independent School District (Houston)
More than 4,000 displaced school-aged children are
expected to register for classes this week. ARAMARK will
provide these students with free meals through the USDA's
National School Lunch Program.
Schools across the state of Texas are welcoming displaced
children into their classrooms. As a result, ARAMARK
expects to serve meals to additional students in Clear
Creek Independent School District, Clear Lake Independent
School District, Friendswood Independent School District,
Goose Creek, Hading-Jefferson, LaMarque Independent School
District and McKinney Independent School District.
-- Dallas, Houston, Arkansas and San Antonio hospitals are now
taking patients displaced from Louisiana. Among these are
hospitals supported by ARAMARK, including The Methodist
Hospital, which will accept 180 patients and Christus Santa
Rosa, which will accept 400 patients.
ARAMARK in Louisiana and Mississippi
ARAMARK is providing additional support at the following locations:
-- West Jefferson Medical Center (Marrero, LA)
Delivering resources such as fuel, food, water, linens and
clinical equipment needs to this facility, which is open
but in an area that is difficult to access because of
flooding.
-- Lane Memorial Hospital (Zachary, LA)
Sending environmental services support.
-- Northrop Grumman (Pascagoula, MS)
Working with Northrop Grumman to serve meals daily to
1,700 people who are unable to leave the building.
-- Lockheed Martin (Stennis Space Center, MS)
Providing food services for approximately 100 people in a
location that is no longer accessible by land.
ARAMARK in Other Locations
ARAMARK is providing additional support at the following locations
nationally:
-- Tucson Convention Center (Tucson, AZ)
Serving approximately 2,000 evacuees.
-- State of Florida
Preparing a mobile kitchen to produce 1,500 meals per day,
at a location to be determined.
-- D.C. Armory (Washington, D.C.)
Coordinating meal service for approximately 400 evacuees.
-- Philadelphia School District (Philadelphia)
Preparing to serve 180 evacuees.
-- New Haven Public Schools (New Haven, CT)
Preparing to serve 150 evacuees.
-- Comfort Inn (McComb, MI)
Preparing and delivering meals to approximately 100
evacuees.
-- Federal Express (Memphis, TN)
Providing pallets of water and shelf-stable foods that
Fed-Ex is flying in for relief efforts. All products are
being provided at cost.
-- Smyrna Airport and Tullahoma Airforce Base (Tullahoma, TN)
Transporting supplies from the American Red Cross shelter
operations, preparing food supplies for lunch and dinner
for approximately 500 evacuees and relief workers, and
preparing workstations with high-speed internet access to
be used by evacuees.
-- Little Rock Fairgrounds (Little Rock, AR)
Serving meals to evacuees at the direction of the American
Red Cross.
-- Atlanta Food Bank (Atlanta)
Donated approximately $6,000 worth of food to be
distributed to American Red Cross shelters in Atlanta.
Other ARAMARK Donations
-- The ARAMARK Charitable Fund
The ARAMARK Charitable Fund is donating $500,000 to the
American Red Cross for disaster relief. In addition,
personal donations from ARAMARK employees to the American
Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund will be matched
dollar for dollar. ARAMARK has more than 242,000 employees
globally.
-- Galls
Galls, an ARAMARK company, sells a wide variety of
uniforms and professional gear for law enforcement,
firefighters, EMTs, and others who ensure individuals'
safety and security. It has donated $100,000 worth of
public safety equipment and supplies to Hurricane Katrina
relief efforts.
-- ARAMARK School Support Services
ARAMARK School Support Services in partnership with Kid
Stuff Marketing will send 18,000 Spike school items to
support students displaced due to Hurricane Katrina.
Students will receive folders, pencil sets and rulers from
the Spike's All-Star Premium program. Spike is the
nutrition mascot for ARAMARK School Support Services.
About ARAMARK ARAMARK Corporation is a world leader in providing award-winning food and facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. services to health care institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, and corporations, as well as providing uniform and career apparel. ARAMARK was ranked number one in its industry in the 2005 FORTUNE 500 survey and was also named one of "America's Most Admired Companies A yearly publication by Fortune Magazine, America's Most Admired Companies consists of corporations that are highly esteemed by the likes of Business Executives, Directors, and Analysts. A survey is taken of close to 3300 professionals who give their opinions on the companies. " by FORTUNE magazine in 2005, consistently ranking since 1998 as one of the top three most admired ad·mire v. ad·mired, ad·mir·ing, ad·mires v.tr. 1. To regard with pleasure, wonder, and approval. 2. To have a high opinion of; esteem or respect. 3. companies in its industry as evaluated by peers. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately 242,500 employees serving clients in 20 countries. |
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