Flickr.com PhotoAn "opinion journalist" at Boise State University wrote a fine opinion column, recently, (click here) about how Aramark engages in price fixing and acts like a monopoly.
According to Gabe Murphy, students living on-campus must pay for mandatory meal plans, which provide little flexibility. Worse yet...
...when student clubs and organizations host special events on campus involving food, they are required to employ University Dining Service which is, of course, run by Aramark. Gee, it's exactly the same deal at the University of Minnesota. Well, actually, the University of Almost Anywhere. Aramark's modus operandi is pretty consistent, wherever you go, the "deal you can't refuse" thing.
As fate would have it, the first public announcement of this blog's existence took place moments ago on a comment thread to Gabe Murphy's article. Today I decided, "John, you've got the bare minimum amount of blog content built up....time to turn the thing loose and give search engines permission to crawl Aramarksucks.org."
Crawl, my little techno buddies, to your virtual heart's content.
1 comment:
Aramark is at its old tricks again!!!! I Currently attend a 2 year community school in NY, where we just signed a contract with Aramark to run our cafeteria. It was brought to my attention in a letter sent to my house from the school that if we are taking more then 9 credits during the semester, we will be charged $100 for a meal plan. THIS IS A COMMUTER SCHOOL WITH NO DORMITORIES!!! I am outraged by the fact that I commute to school and only live 5 min away, but still have to pay for this meal plan. Also, they make it nearly impossible to get out of this meal plan without written documentation from your dietitian, or from your religious leader. furthermore, Aramark has a dietitian of their own that makes the final decision on weather you have to be on the meal plan or not. THIS BLOWS MY MIND!!! Please help me as I prepare a case against the school and company for stealing from the student population. If you have any words of wisdom or articles that I can bring forth and show my administration, it would be greatly appreciated. If things don't get resolved I will be contacting my local news station and fighting this till the end. Thank you.
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