New Website Asks Baseball Fans: How does the Food at Your Stadium Stack Up?

PHILADELPHIA, March 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With thousands of baseball
enthusiasts heading to local ballparks to cheer on their favorite teams this
week, a new Website gives fans the opportunity to rate their culinary
experiences at stadiums nationwide. AramarkStrikesOut.info -- sponsored by the
Campaign for Quality Services and the food service and janitorial workers that
serve these venues -- asks fans to cast their ballot to rank the quality of
stadium food and venue management.

"Baseball fans expect the best from our home teams -- it's time we applied
those same standards to the stadiums where we see them play," said Jack
Rushton, who has worked for Aramark at the Spectrum Center and the Wachovia
Center for more than 20 years. "We want to see a good game but we want to have
good food and fair play at the stadium, too."

One of the world's largest food service providers, Aramark operates concession
stands at hundreds of stadiums and convention centers across the United
States. AramarkStrikesOut.info invites baseball fans to rate some of
baseball's most renowned and popular stadiums according to food quality, the
length of lines, and the cost of food. By highlighting food and safety
violations at Aramark-served stadiums throughout the country, the website also
seeks to engage fans in improving food quality and worker conditions at these
important public venues.

For months, food service workers and community organizations around the
country have been raising concerns about Aramark's business practices at
stadiums throughout the country, including:

-- Rats at Angels Stadium
-- "Tepid Sausage" and Long Lines at RFK Memorial Stadium
-- Discontent at Qwest Field
-- Alleged Worker Mistreatment at Fenway Park

With nearly 175,000 employees, Aramark is a leader in the growing contracted
services industry, which employs more workers nationally than the Big Three
auto companies combined. Despite taking in revenues topping $11.6 billion last
year alone, Aramark's concession workers often struggle to make ends meet at
low-wage, no-health insurance jobs.

Since last fall, Aramark workers who provide food service, janitorial, and
other services have been leading the fight for good jobs with health care in
major cities around the country.

SOURCE Campaign for Quality Services

Erin Smith, +1-202-615-2369, or Jaclyn Kessel, +1-646-452-5637, both of the
Campaign for Quality Services