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By EDITH McNEILL
Gamecock Staff Writer
ARA dining services will sign a five,
year contract with USC, next week,
having completed negotiations with a
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Robert A. Stewart, director of Business
Affairs at the Office of Residential Life
Services.
The dining service, which has vwwn
serving USC for 20 years, is reviewed
every year, said Stewart.
This year, unlike previous years, 13
companies were invited to bid for the
contract. "We didn't want it to seem
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said Stewart. "We hadn't taken a look
at the dining service contractors in
years and we wanted to see if other
companies could do a better job."
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said. "Rather than having to sign a
contract with the company every year,
we wanted to sign with them for a
longer term."
Six dining services, including ARA,
submitted bids. Stewart said the
companies were examined on the basis
of the services they could provide and
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any innovations they could institute,
rather than on a monetary basis.
The dining comoanies wprp nffpr^H a
flat fee of five per cent of management
costs, said Stewart. Ted McDaniel,
manager for ARA, said the company
does more than $2 million of business at
USC every year. ARA will gross more
than $100,000 a year.
THE FOOD SERVICE Contract
Review Committee, formed in
December, chose ARA on the basis of
promised innovations and past service.
"In general the committee looked at
them fof their capabilities," said
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Gamecock Staff Writer
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Stewart. "Money was not put into
consideration because we don't want to
cut quality or raise prices."
ARA's prelimihary contract, for five
vcdia cinu a semester, Degins January
i, 1978. The committee will monitor the
performance of ARA during the first
months of its contract, Stewart said.
The dining service's performance will
be reviewed every year.
If the performance of the dining
service is satisfactory it will have an
option to renew its contract with the
university for another five years, said
Stewart.
said. "Increased prices would
show up not only in fast food
esiaDiisnments, but in all
n wage forms of food service."
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it may DANNY CALLAHAN,
isumer manager of a local Pizza Hut,
en said, said the wage increase woulr*
icerned not reduce the number of jobs
in the for college students in his
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cause about 80 percent of his emof
jobs ployees are college students,
icularly The wage increase would lead
college to higher prices, he said.
"Basically, it is an inflationary
type step."
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College increase, Pizza Hut cut back on
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IIIRAM SPAIN, JR.,
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we ports the wage increase,
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irvice." would help underpaid people, it
would would not necessarily cause
Cosper increased prices, Spain said.
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