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Aramark is in places that you’d never expect. While most are familiar with our work in schools and stadiums, you can find our hospitality in all sorts of spaces. We’ve worked the Olympics, coronations, amusement parks--the list is vast. Of all of these occasions and locations, one of the most unique is our work in global offshore installations. Our managing director for offshore services—Andrew Th...

We are on the cusp of summer and looking ahead to recreation in the sun and surf. Robert Knowlton, District Manager for Aramark, and Jerod Viers, General Manager for Water Operation Services are here to talk to us about the fun times to be had at the Lake, with some special attention paid to an attraction that you might not know about but won’t be able to get out of your mind – houseboat rentals.

In honor of Second Chances month this April, this special edition of Mark This! breaks with our traditional format in to speak with graduates of Aramark’s program, IN2WORK – an educational pathway to post-incarceration success. Some of our guests are now working, post-release, with Aramark and some are still awaiting release. We thought it was important that our graduates’ voices are heard – Arama...

March is Women’s History Month and Mark This! is celebrating by sitting down with leadership in Aramark’s Employee Resource Group (ERG), EMPOWER. EMPOWER’s mission is to empower and grow diverse leadership among women that drives results by promoting development, networking, and mentoring.  

In this episode, we explore a technology service agreement in Healthcare+ to remotely connect its highly skilled clinical dietitians with hospital patients through cloud-based technologies.   

We are headed into playoff season in the NFL and thought that our listeners might be interested in how stadium foods, menus, and treats are developed. Chef Richard Grab, Director of Culinary Innovation for Sports + Entertainment, and Chef James Hennessey, Executive Chef for Lincoln Financial Field, are going to explain how our teams gear up for the season and then surprise and delight for playoffs...

On the latest Mark This! Podcast, we spoke with Diane Pancoski, Vice President for Marketing and Innovation for Aramark Workplace Experience, and Betsy Rapport, Vice President of Marketing for Aramark Refreshments.   Listen now, as they share their expertise on how Aramark Workplace Experience Group is using insights and analysis to understand and engage with consumers heading back to the office.

Aramark Collegiate Hospitality has a brand-new program—Eat to Excel. Eat to Excel is a performance-based dining platform designed to help student athletes reach for their potential on and off the field. Created with Division II and III athletes in mind, Eat to ExcelTM provides an educational, menu and nutrition tracking solution on campuses that do not have dedicated training tables for student at...

Aramark serves people the world-over – it’s what we do well and we are committed to providing meals to folks from all walks of life. But if you’ve ever eaten at a professional sports stadium and a campus dining hall and a workplace cafeteria or in a number of other places, you know that the food that is served varies greatly. What you may not know is that each industry has standards and regulation...

Allergen solutions: this ever-growing need is a key focus for Aramark’s lines of business. Because we prioritize safety, we continue to develop and deploy new ways to strengthen allergen awareness and management in our kitchens. Our approach is designed to give our people the information and tools they need to deliver safe food while also affirming that our allergen solutions stations meet the hig...

Fenimore Fisher, Vice President for DEI, started at Aramark in 2021 and has had immediate and significant impact on not just the company, but also each Aramark community member he has interacted with. This episode explores not only why DEI is important to Aramark but also why it should be important to all. 

Mark This! Explores Aramark’s Healthcare+ community — a group that moves beyond business to true care. Healthcare+ espouses a philosophy that makes a tangible difference in patient healing, recovery, and satisfaction. Our guests, Bart Kaericher, President of Aramark Healthcare+, and Jeff Moreland, CEO of P.E.A. or Patient Engagement Advisors, are working together to change the way patient care is...

It is officially summer vacation season, and that means that our teams across the United States are gearing up to provide the perfect balance of the familiar and the unexpected to make your destination hospitality experience unforgettable. In this episode, Mark This! explores our Destinations business, which provides activities, experiences, and places to stay within some of America’s greatest nat...

Mark This! explores the hard food service work behind the country’s favorite pastime. Aramark Sports + Entertainment is the award-winning partner of 10 MLB stadiums, and for the 2023 MLB season, Aramark Sports + Entertainment introduced a variety of brand-new ballpark-menu offerings and chef collaborations across its portfolio of clients in addition to launching "Seasons Inning Stretch,"...

Mark This! has a one-on-one conversation with Jami Leveen, Vice President for Community Partnerships, exploring community relations at Aramark. In her daily life, she oversees strategic partnerships with nonprofits, year-round volunteer opportunities, and charitable contributions. Our 10th annual day of service also known as Aramark Building Community Day, is scheduled for April 27, near the end o...

Mark This! explores the history and advice of two Aramark leaders who happen to be women. Barbara Flanagan is the President of Student Nutrition, our line of business that serves K-12 institutions across the United States, and Brisbane Vaillancourt is a regional vice president in our collegiate hospitality business. We asked the two of them to share their leadership paths, vision, and motivation w...

Mark This! talks to Collegiate Hospitality leadership – CEO and President Jack Donovan and Chief Growth Officer Sasha Day – to learn more about their guiding philosophy, the Hospitality Ecosystem. This driving vision allows the business to be so much more than a food provider on campus.

Mark This! explores responsible sourcing at Aramark, the unit that drives local procurement, supplier diversity, and sustainable sourcing across the enterprise. Responsible sourcing is a shared priority with the enterprise and with our partners as clients and customers want the bigger story behind the products and services we provide. They want to know where their food comes from and how we are su...

Mark This! explores Aramark’s Employee Resource Groups, more commonly referred to as ERGs. Our 11 ERGs are voluntary, employee-led groups made up of individuals who come together based on common interests, backgrounds, or demographic factors. Each ERG is open to all Aramark employees regardless of their background, and provides opportunities for networking, outreach, professional development, and...

This episode of Mark This! explores Aramark’s Correctional Services business, specifically its In2Work program, which has provided a path for incarcerated individuals to gain nationally recognized educational certificates to help them reclaim their lives post-release. Tim Barttrum, President and CEO of Aramark Correctional Services, and Nicole McVaugh, Director of In2Work, joined us to give insigh...

Join members of the enterprise safety team while we explore why Safety Matters to the Aramark community. On this episode of Mark This, we explore Aramark's safety culture, the backbone of a company that delivers ultimate hospitality to millions of people every day. Safety is not a reactionary process consisting only of a team or procedures to be deployed when things go wrong; it is truly a constan...