{"id":5636,"date":"2017-03-21T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:23:06","slug":"aramark-to-continue-operating-campus-dining-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/21\/aramark-to-continue-operating-campus-dining-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Aramark to continue operating Campus Dining Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/Java-City-GI_7.jpg\"><\/a> Java City in the Hearnes Center is one of Aramark&#8217;s popular campus facilities.\n<p>Aramark will continue to provide food service to Missouri Western State University for at least the next seven years under<a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/RFP17-074-Campus-Food-Service.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> a bid accepted by Missouri Western\u2019s Board of Governors<\/a> in a telephone poll March 21.<\/p>\n<p>Aramark operates Missouri Western\u2019s Dining Hall and Food Court in the Blum Student Union as well as multiple other food service locations around campus. Their current contract expires in May.<\/p>\n<p>Under terms of the new contract, Aramark will give more than $6.6 million to Missouri Western in facility upgrades, scholarships, commissions and other contributions. The contract will run through May 25, 2024, with an option to renew for an additional three-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the phone poll, the Board of Governors accepted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/03\/FB17-088-Installation-of-Daikin-Popplewell-1st-2nd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the low bid of $113,642 from P1 Group, Inc., of St. Joseph<\/a> to install HVAC units on the first and second floors of Popplewell Hall. The project is funded by money from House Bill 19, the 2015 legislation that appropriated $4.8 million to Missouri Western for capital improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The results of the phone poll will be ratified at the board\u2019s next regular meeting on April 27.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2014end\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aramark will continue to provide food service to Missouri Western State University for at least the next seven years under a bid accepted by Missouri Western\u2019s Board of Governors in a telephone poll March 21. Aramark operates Missouri Western\u2019s Dining Hall and Food Court in the Blum Student Union as well as multiple other food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}