Cafés & Dining
Everyday cafés and dining designed around your culture, where great food and genuine hospitality give people a reason to gather.
One hospitality partner.
Specialized companies.
Every space you serve.
What is Aramark Workplace Experience Group?
Most organizations piece together food and hospitality one vendor at a time. A dining contract here, a catering company there, separate coffee and market programs, each with its own point of contact. Aramark's Workplace Experience Group brings it under one roof.
Four specialized hospitality companies, Workplace Hospitality, LifeWorks Restaurant Group, Salute Hospitality, and Refreshments, each lead in what they do best, backed by one partner and the scale of Aramark. Whether you run a corporate office, a cultural venue, a military community, or a campus, we match the right company to your space and run the whole program with you.
Workplace Experience Group
Built to run the food and hospitality programs
your people count on.
Suite of Solutions
From Breakroom to Boardroom
The right hospitality program depends on your space. We match the company built for it, then run everything as one coordinated team. For everyday workplace dining, that is Workplace Hospitality with Refreshments as the breakroom backbone alongside it. For chef-led, culture-shaping environments, it is LifeWorks Restaurant Group with Refreshments. Military and government communities are served by Salute Hospitality. Whatever the mix, you get one contract, one point of contact, and a team that runs the program from the breakroom to the boardroom.
Our Curated Companies
Each company leads in what it does best. Tell us about your space and your goals, and we match you with the right one, then run the whole program as a single team.
Our Seamless Approach
When a client has multiple sites, multiple brand needs, and complex financial and service requirements, Portfolio Group delivers one team, one approach, and one point of accountability across the portfolio
- Custom, end-to-end hospitality: From culinary programs to breakroom service, we design end-to-end hospitality custom to your business, with consistent standards and a single team accountable for outcomes.
- Simplify operations: One point of contact for coordinating dining, breakroom programs, autonomous markets, and beyond, across every location you operate. No searching for local suppliers, no patchwork of contracts.
- Aligned financial model: One financial approach across sites and services, structured around how you measure success. Flexible commercial models that fit your procurement program, not the other way around.
"We create a seamless amenity experience where the guest always comes first. That is the standard every one of our companies is built to deliver."
- Gary Crompton, President & CEO of Workplace Experience Group
Insight-driven Innovation
Deep experience in your industry and your spaces, with technology and AI that keep your program efficient, responsive, and easy to work with.
Service Excellence
A rigorous service standard, backed by proof: 90%+ desired staff retention, from field operations to chef-led events.
Seamless Mobilization
When you change providers or open a new site, we transition your program with rigor and no drop in service, so your team stays fed and your standards hold from day one.
People
Our people are the difference. From culinary talent to frontline teams, we invest in the training and development that keeps your program at its best.
Flexible Financial Models
Commercial models built to fit your procurement program, not the other way around.
Partnership and Transparency
A true local partner backed by Aramark's enterprise scale, with real-time reporting on purchases, usage, and ROI, so you always have the data to decide.
Behind Every Experience
The investments and principles that let hospitality do its job across every environment we serve.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Aramark's Workplace Experience Group?
Aramark's Workplace Experience Group (WXG) is a division of Aramark that brings four specialized hospitality companies under one partner: Workplace Hospitality for everyday dining, LifeWorks Restaurant Group for chef-led culinary experiences, Salute Hospitality for the military community, and Refreshments for coffee, pantry, and 24/7 markets. One contract and one point of contact cover the full program.
Is the Workplace Experience Group the same as Aramark?
It is part of Aramark. Aramark is the parent company; the Workplace Experience Group is the division that serves business, institutional, and community environments through its four hospitality companies. When you work with WXG, Aramark's scale and infrastructure sit behind every program.
Which Aramark company handles corporate catering and executive dining?
LifeWorks Restaurant Group. It delivers chef-led hospitality, executive dining, catering, and conference services for organizations that want dining to shape culture, not just feed people.
Which Aramark company handles military dining and base food service?
Salute Hospitality. It delivers dining for the military community across service branches, built on operational discipline, performance nutrition, and the accountability that contracting and command leaders require.
Which Aramark company runs 24/7 markets, vending, and breakroom programs?
Refreshments. It runs craft coffee, pantry, fresh food, vending, and 24/7 markets that stay stocked and always on, served by local teams with national scale behind them.
What is the difference between Workplace Hospitality and LifeWorks Restaurant Group?
Both are dining companies, but they serve different kinds of clients. Workplace Hospitality is everyday dining built to make the workday work reliably at scale, for large organizations. LifeWorks Restaurant Group is chef-led, culture-shaping hospitality for organizations that treat dining as a signature amenity. They are matched to the client, not deployed together at the same site.
Can Aramark run multiple hospitality programs under one contract?
Yes, and that is what Aramark Portfolio Group is built for. Part of the Workplace Experience Group, Portfolio Group partners with you through a single point of leadership and a dedicated team, combining dining with coffee, pantry, and 24/7 markets under one contract and one relationship. You get a unified, end-to-end hospitality program managed from the breakroom to the boardroom, instead of separate vendors for each piece.
What is Aramark Portfolio Group?
Aramark Portfolio Group is part of the Workplace Experience Group division of Aramark, partnering with clients to deliver tailored, end-to-end hospitality solutions across diverse workplace environments. Through a unified service approach led by a single point of leadership and a dedicated team, Portfolio Group ensures seamless execution, elevated experiences, and strategic alignment with each client's goals. In practice, it is how one relationship covers multiple hospitality programs, from the breakroom to the boardroom.
What environments does the Workplace Experience Group serve?
Corporate offices, cultural institutions and performing arts venues, premium travel and hospitality settings, military and government communities, healthcare, manufacturing, and campus environments. We match the right company to each space rather than applying one model everywhere.
Where does Aramark's Workplace Experience Group operate?
Across the United States and Canada, with local teams on the ground and Aramark's national infrastructure behind them.
How do I request a proposal or schedule a site visit?
Talk to our team. Tell us about your space and goals and we will match you with the right company and build a proposal.
Aramark builds specialized hospitality companies, each a distinct capability for a different environment and a different buyer: Workplace Hospitality for full-spectrum workplace dining, LifeWorks Restaurant Group for chef-led hospitality where food is a strategic amenity, Salute Hospitality for the military, and Aramark Refreshments for everyday food and beverage access anywhere people take a break. One parent behind them; the right company in front of you.
