ARAMARK Continues to Support Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts Throughout Texas and around the Country

PHILADELPHIA & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--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, house and otherwise sustain tens of thousands of displaced people.

ARAMARK in Texas (as of September 8, 2005)

Since evacuees began arriving in Houston from the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina, ARAMARK has served more than 635,000 meals to as many as 26,000 evacuees seeking shelter at Reliant Park, which includes the Reliant Astrodome, Reliant Arena and Reliant Center, and George R. Brown Convention Center, as well as additional law enforcement officials, American Red Cross and medical personnel, and volunteers. ARAMARK also is providing all facility services, including cleaning and garbage collection, at these locations.

ARAMARK employees from Reliant Park, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston Independent School District 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 food shipments, stock the warehouse, wash cooking equipment, empty trash cans, 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 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.