Aramark Corporation was founded in 1936 as Davidson Brothers by Davre and Henry Davidson. The company provided vending services to aviation industry employees in Southern California.
In 1959 Davre Davidson established ARA (Automatic Retailers of America) with William Fisherman. The company went public the following year.
Aramark provides professional services, food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel.
ARA provided services at the Mexico City Olympics, the first of 16 Olympic Games they serviced, including Athens in 2004 and later Beijing in 2008.
In 1983 Joseph Naubauer became CEO of the company, now named ARA Services, and a year later coordinated a management buyout.
In 1994 ARA Services changed its name to Aramark.
In 2015, the company also worked on a comprehensive new animal welfare policy that includes purchasing only cage-free eggs by 2020 and eliminating all pork from animals bred using gestation crates by 2017. 
In August of 2017, the company partnered with The Humane Society as part of their commitment to increase the amount of plant-based foods. The company has plans to introduce a series of plant-based culinary training a six month period.
In 2013, an investigation by a journalist found that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was sub-standard and spoiled, so much so that it often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting. Maggots were found in the food preparation areas at least two jails in Michigan and these may have been the source of the outbreak of food-borne illness. Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute. Aramark, however, was cleared by the Michigan Department of Corrections of any responsibility for inmate illness or pest infestation in the state of Michigan. Both the states of Ohio and Michigan fined the company $270,000 and $200,000 respectively.
Today Aramark Corporation is a food-service, facilities, and uniform provider, supplying businesses, educational institutions, sports facilities, federal and state prisons, and healthcare institutions. Aramark is #18 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Aramark has 270,000 employees and had $14.41 billion in revenue in 2016.
History
Aramark Corporation was founded in 1936 as Davidson Brothers by Davre and Henry Davidson. The company provided vending services to aviation industry employees in Southern California.
In 1959 Davre Davidson established ARA (Automatic Retailers of America) with William Fisherman. The company went public the following year.
Aramark provides professional services, food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel.
ARA provided services at the Mexico City Olympics, the first of 16 Olympic Games they serviced, including Athens in 2004 and later Beijing in 2008.
In 1983 Joseph Naubauer became CEO of the company, now named ARA Services, and a year later coordinated a management buyout.
In 1994 ARA Services changed its name to Aramark.
In 2015, the company also worked on a comprehensive new animal welfare policy that includes purchasing only cage-free eggs by 2020 and eliminating all pork from animals bred using gestation crates by 2017.
In August of 2017, the company partnered with The Humane Society as part of their commitment to increase the amount of plant-based foods. The company has plans to introduce a series of plant-based culinary training a six month period.
In 2013, an investigation by a journalist found that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was sub-standard and spoiled, so much so that it often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting. Maggots were found in the food preparation areas at least two jails in Michigan and these may have been the source of the outbreak of food-borne illness. Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute. Aramark, however, was cleared by the Michigan Department of Corrections of any responsibility for inmate illness or pest infestation in the state of Michigan. Both the states of Ohio and Michigan fined the company $270,000 and $200,000 respectively.
Today Aramark Corporation is a food-service, facilities, and uniform provider, supplying businesses, educational institutions, sports facilities, federal and state prisons, and healthcare institutions. Aramark is #18 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Aramark has 270,000 employees and had $14.41 billion in revenue in 2016.
