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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001584509-21-000114
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20210527
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20210527

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Aramark
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001584509
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	RETAIL-EATING PLACES [5812]
		IRS NUMBER:				208236097
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1001

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-36223
		FILM NUMBER:		21973913

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2400 MARKET STREET
		CITY:			PHILADELPHIA
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			19103
		BUSINESS PHONE:		215-238-3000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2400 MARKET STREET
		CITY:			PHILADELPHIA
		STATE:			PA
		ZIP:			19103

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ARAMARK Holdings Corp
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20130815
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i980d645bb3dc426aa27cfb133948c88c_1"></div><div style="min-height:33.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="-sec-extract:summary;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">UNITED STATES</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">____________________________</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">FORM SD </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">____________________________</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:14pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:85.964%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:17.947%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:18.117%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:21.348%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:38.188%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">____________________________</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Aramark </font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">____________________________</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Delaware</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">001-36223</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">20-8236097</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(State or other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(Commission File Number)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:top"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(IRS Employer Identification No.)</font></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr style="height:12pt"><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">2400 Market Street</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" rowspan="2" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">19103</font></td></tr><tr style="height:14pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:right;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Philadelphia,</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Pennsylvania</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#160;&#160;&#160;(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">(Zip Code)</font></td></tr></table></div><div style="text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:85.380%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:18.078%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:30.235%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:12.769%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:34.518%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Lauren A. Harrington</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:center;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Senior Vice President and General Counsel</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:right"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">(215)</font></div></td><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">238-3000</font></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="12" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:8pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">(Name and telephone number, including area code, of the person to contact in connection with this report.)</font></div></td></tr></table></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">__________________________</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Check the appropriate box below to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:6pt;padding-left:54pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#9746; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2020.</font></div><div style="height:33.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:33.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Section 1 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Item 1.01 - Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;text-decoration:underline">Conflict Minerals Disclosure</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Aramark (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) is a leading global provider of food, facilities, and uniform services to education, healthcare, business and industry, and sports, leisure and corrections clients. Our core market is the United States, which is supplemented by an additional 18-country footprint serving many of the fastest growing global geographies.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">  </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company operates its business in three reportable segments that share many of the same operating characteristics&#58; Food and Support Services United States, Food and Support Services International, and Uniform and Career Apparel.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This Form SD disclosure is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (&#8220;Rule 13p-1&#8221;). Pursuant to Rule 13p-1, the Company undertook to determine whether the products it manufactured or contracted to manufacture during the period beginning January 1, 2020, and ending December 31, 2020, contained conflict minerals necessary to the functionality or production of such products. &#8220;Conflict minerals&#8221; are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, and tungsten (&#8220;3TG&#8221;).</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company evaluated its products to determine whether any such products may contain 3TG. Based on this review, the Company determined that, in 2020, it manufactured or contracted to manufacture&#58; (1) certain uniform and other garments and work clothes that contain metal components, such as certain zippers and snaps, and (2) certain metal equipment, such as tables, trays, and baskets, in each case, that may contain 3TG that may be necessary to the functionality or production of these products (such products or components of such products, the &#8220;Covered Products&#8221;). The Company worked with its suppliers to determine whether any of the Covered Products contain 3TG. The Company received responses from the vast majority of its suppliers that were identified as having (a) manufactured certain of the Covered Products for the Company or (b) supplied materials that were used by the Company in its manufacturing of certain of the Covered Products.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">  </font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Following this review, the Company determined that tin is necessary to the functionality or production of certain of the Covered Products. The Company conducted a reasonable country of origin inquiry to determine whether any of the tin contained in the Covered Products originated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia (together, the &#8220;Covered Countries&#8221;) or from recycled or scrap sources. The Company&#8217;s primary means of determining the country of origin of the tin contained in the Covered Products was conducting supply chain inquiries based on the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template developed by the Responsible Minerals Initiative with the Company&#8217;s direct suppliers of the Covered Products that contain tin eliciting, as applicable, information regarding (i) the presence of tin contained in materials supplied to the Company, (ii) the refiner or smelter of the tin, (iii) the country of origin of the tin, (iv) whether the tin came from scrap or recycled sources, and (v) other relevant information regarding the supplier&#8217;s (or its suppliers&#8217;) practices concerning 3TG. The Company reviewed and evaluated responses received from its inquiries and followed up by phone or email where necessary.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Based on the reasonable country of origin inquiries described above, the Company has in good faith concluded that it has no reason to believe that the tin contained in materials, components or products supplied to the Company and included in the Covered Products for the period covered by this report (i) originated in any of the Covered Countries or (ii) came from recycled or scrap sources.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:112%">In accordance with the requirements under Rule 13p-1, the above disclosure is also available on the Company&#8217;s website at http&#58;&#47;&#47;www.aramark.com under Investor Relations&#58; Reports&#58; SEC Filings. </font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline">Item 1.02 - Exhibit</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">Not applicable.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Section 2 - Exhibits </font></div><div style="margin-bottom:3pt;padding-left:72pt;text-indent:-72pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%;text-decoration:underline">Item 2.01 - Exhibits</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:115%">None.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="height:33.75pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:33.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SIGNATURES</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;display:inline-table;margin-bottom:5pt;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:80.994%"><tr><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:5.578%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:22.907%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:16.048%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:8.466%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td><td style="width:1.0%"></td><td style="width:41.501%"></td><td style="width:0.1%"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="6" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:100%">Aramark</font></td></tr><tr style="height:15pt"><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Date&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">May 27, 2021</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">By&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">&#47;s&#47; 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HARRINGTON</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:0 1pt"></td><td colspan="3" style="padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">Name&#58;</font></td><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1pt solid #000000;padding:2px 1pt;text-align:left;vertical-align:bottom"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:100%">LAUREN A. 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