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

PHILADELPHIA -- ARAMARK (NYSE:RMK), a world leader in managed services, is teaching children about healthy eating habits and nutrition during National School Lunch Week, October 10-14, 2005. The theme this year is "School Lunch: It's Instrumental." ARAMARK provides food service to over 420 school districts nationwide and serves nearly 350 million meals annually to K-12 students.

"National School Lunch Week is an annual opportunity for ARAMARK and its district partners to celebrate our commitment to healthy lifestyles," said Jeff Wheatley, President, ARAMARK Education, School Support Services. "We are dedicated to providing students with nutritious meal options to help optimize their ability to learn."

In honor of this year's National School Lunch Week, ARAMARK has developed nutrition-related educational tools, posters, banners, letters to parents, advertisements in school papers, public address announcements, and graphics to communicate the importance of adopting a healthy lifestyle. ARAMARK-managed school districts will be heralding National School Lunch Week in a variety of ways. A few examples 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, National School Lunch Week helps raise awareness of and build support for the role played by school food service and nutrition programs in the lives of American children.

Much has changed in school food service since that proclamation in the 1960s. ARAMARK is doing its part to shatter some old misconceptions 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 and U.B.U. Lounge. These research-based programs were designed by ARAMARK to encourage middle and high school students to enjoy a nutritious dining experience at school while providing them with recipes that have been created to meet strict nutritional standards and options they want. These programs are extremely successful at ARAMARK-managed school districts across the country and were selected as a 2005 winner in Nation's Restaurant News magazine's MenuMasters Award for Best On-Site Operator Menu.

ARAMARK's focus on nutrition awareness helps students make informed, well-balanced choices whether eating in or outside of school.

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

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

Initiatives such as One World Cafe and FUEL help increase student participation in school meals and promote nutrition education so young minds 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 school districts in the U.S. It offers public and private education institutions a family of dining and facility services including: on-site and off-site breakfast and lunch meal programs, after-school snacks, summer and adult feeding, catering, nutrition education, retail design and operations, maintenance, custodial, grounds, energy management, construction management and building commissioning. For more information on ARAMARK's K-12 food service programs, please visit www.aramarkschoolfood.com.

About ARAMARK

ARAMARK Corporation is a world leader in providing award-winning food and facilities management 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" by FORTUNE magazine in 2005, consistently ranking since 1998 as one of the top three most admired companies in its industry as evaluated by peers. Headquartered in Philadelphia, ARAMARK has approximately 242,500 employees serving clients in 20 countries.