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                                                                    Exhibit 10.1

                               ARAMARK CORPORATION
                   Combined Stock Ownership Plan for Employees
                  (including Directors who are also Employees)

                           (as proposed to be amended)

1. Purpose of Plan. The purpose of the Plan is to enable ARAMARK
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Corporation and its Subsidiaries to continue to compete successfully in
attracting and retaining key employees by making it possible for them to
purchase shares of the Company's Common Stock on terms which will give them a
more direct and continuing interest in the future success of the Company's
business. The Plan authorizes the granting of Incentive Stock Options,
nonqualified options, or any combination of the foregoing, to such key
employees. The Plan excludes from participation directors of the Company who are
not Employees. From and after the IPO Date, no new options shall be granted
under the Plan.

2.    Definitions.
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      Board means the Board of Directors of the Company.

      Certificate of Incorporation means the Company's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as it may be amended or restated from time to time.

      Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Any reference in
the Plan to a section of the Code includes any amendments or successor
provisions to such section.

      Committee of the Board means the committee consisting of those members of
either the Human Resources, Compensation and Public Affairs Committee or such
other committee of the Board consisting of two or more directors as may be
delegated authority to administer the Plan, who are disinterested persons
(within the meaning of Section (c)(2) of SEC Rule 16b-3 or any successor
provision) and also outside directors (within the meaning of Section 162(m) of
the Code and the Treasury regulations thereunder).

      Company means ARAMARK Corporation, a Delaware corporation. Effective on
the Merger Closing Date, Company means ARAMARK Worldwide Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, which company is a successor to ARAMARK Corporation.

      Employee means an officer or other key employee employed by the Company or
by a Subsidiary. It shall also include all non-employee members of the board of
directors of Subsidiaries who are not also members of the board of directors of
the Company.

      Incentive Stock Option means an option described in Section 422 of the
Code and the Treasury regulations thereunder.

      IPO Date means the date that shares of Common Stock, Class B, par value
$.01 per share, of ARAMARK Worldwide Corporation first are sold to the public
pursuant to an underwritten registered public offering.

      Merger Agreement means the Agreement and Plan of Merger by and between
ARAMARK Corporation and ARAMARK Worldwide Corporation dated as of _______.

      Merger Closing Date means the "effective time" as defined in the Merger
Agreement.

      1987 Plan means the 1987 Stock Option Plan, as amended.

      1991 Plan means the 1991 Stock Ownership Plan, as amended.

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      Optionee means a person to whom an option has been granted under the Plan
which has not expired or been fully exercised or surrendered.

      Plan means the Combined 1987 Stock Option Plan and 1991 Stock Ownership
Plan or either the 1987 Plan or the 1991 Plan, as the context may require.

      Shares means shares of the Common Stock, Class B, par value $.01 per
share, of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, from and after the Merger
Closing Date, Shares means shares of the Common Stock, Class A (which may
include A-1, A-2 and/or A-3), par value $.01 per share, of the Company, except
that, upon an Optionee's termination of employment with the Company for any
reason, such Optionee's outstanding options automatically shall be adjusted and
converted to options with respect to Common Stock, Class B-1, B-2 or B-3, as the
case may be; provided that such adjustment and conversion shall not affect the
vested (or unvested) status of the option, nor, if applicable, its status as an
Incentive Stock Option. For avoidance of doubt, in all cases, the Class A and
Class B Common Stock referred to in this definition shall be subject to the
adjustment provisions set forth in Section 6 of the Plan.

      Subsidiary means any corporation or other entity of which the Company
shall, directly or indirectly, own 50% or more of the equity, as determined for
purposes of the Plan by the Board or the Committee of the Board and any other
corporation or other entity in which the Company shall directly or indirectly
have an equity investment and which the Board or the Committee of the Board
shall in its sole discretion designate.

3. Limits on Options. The total number of Shares for which options may be
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granted (including options previously granted and currently outstanding) to
Employees under the 1987 Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate 3,000,000 Shares
and under the 1991 Plan shall not exceed in the aggregate 17,500,000 Shares.
Incentive Stock Options may be granted under the 1987 Plan only. Shares for
which options have expired or have been surrendered or canceled without having
been exercised may again be optioned under the respective Plan. However, Shares
covered by options for which the Company elects under paragraph (c) of Section 7
to settle all or part of its obligation by making a substitute payment in cash,
Shares or a combination of both may not be optioned again under the Plan. The
maximum number of Shares with respect to which options may be granted during any
fiscal year under the Plan to any one Employee is 1,000,000 Shares. If an option
is canceled, such canceled option will be counted against the maximum number of
Shares that may be granted to any one Employee. If an exercise price of an
option is reduced after the grant, the transaction will be treated as a
cancellation of the option and a grant of a new option, unless such price change
is made as a result of a transaction described in Section 6. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, from and after the IPO Date, no new options shall be granted under
the Plan.

4.    Granting of Options.
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      The Committee of the Board is authorized to grant options to selected
Employees until the Plan is terminated as hereinafter provided. The number of
Shares, if any, optioned in each year, the Employees to whom options are
granted, and the number of Shares optioned to each Employee selected shall be
wholly within the discretion of the Committee of the Board, subject only to the
limitations prescribed in Section 3. Notwithstanding the foregoing, from and
after the IPO Date, no new options shall be granted under the Plan.

5.    Terms of Stock Options.  The terms of stock options granted under
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the Plan shall be as follows:

      (a) Price: The option price shall be fixed by the Board or the Committee
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of the Board but shall in no event be less than the greater of (i) 100% of the
fair market value of the Shares subject to the option on the date the option is
granted, or (ii) the par value of such Shares.

      (b)  Transferability:  Options  are  not  transferable  otherwise
than  by will or by the  laws  of  descent  and  distribution. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Committee of the Board, by specifically so providing
in the option certificate, or the amended option certificate, may grant options,
other than Incentive Stock Options, that are transferable, without payment of
consideration, to immediate family members of the Optionee, or to a trust or
partnership for such family members, and may also amend outstanding options,

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other than Incentive Stock Options, to provide for such transferability. No
option shall be subject, in whole or in part, to attachment, execution or levy
of any kind.

      (c) Term: Each option shall expire and all rights thereunder shall end at
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the expiration of such period as shall be fixed by the Board or the Committee of
the Board, which period shall end not later than ten years from the date on
which the option was granted, subject in all cases to earlier expiration as
provided in paragraphs (d) and (e) of this Section 5 in the event of termination
of employment, death, or permanent disability.

      (d) Exercise: Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 5, an
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option shall be exercisable only by an Optionee (or his or her transferee
pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 5) and only while the Optionee is an
Employee of the Company or a Subsidiary or, unless his or her employment is
terminated for cause, within three months after he or she otherwise ceases to be
an Employee, but only if and to the extent the option was exercisable
immediately prior to termination of his or her service. In no event shall an
option be exercisable later than the end of the period fixed by the Board or the
Committee of the Board in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (c) of
this Section 5. The Board or the Committee of the Board, in either case, in its
sole discretion, may in whole or in part, accelerate the time at which
outstanding options may be exercised.

      (e) Death or Disability of Employee: If an Optionee dies or becomes
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permanently disabled within a period during which his or her option could have
been exercised the option may be exercised within twelve months after his or her
death or permanent disability (but not later than the end of the period fixed by
the Board or the Committee of the Board in accordance with the provisions of
paragraph (c) of this Section 5) by him or her (or his or her transferee
pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 5) or by those entitled under his or
her will or the laws of descent and distribution, but only if and to the extent
the option was exercisable immediately prior to his or her death or permanent
disability.

      (f)  Additional  Terms:  The Board or the  Committee  of the Board may
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include at the time an option is granted  such  additional terms and conditions
as it deems desirable to the extent not inconsistent with the Plan.

      (g)  Restrictions on Incentive Stock Options:  The following  additional
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restrictions shall be applicable to all Incentive Stock Options granted
under the Plan:

           (i)   An Employee who is a director of the Company or of a Subsidiary
      shall not be eligible to receive such options unless he is also employed
      by the Company or by a Subsidiary.

           (ii)  The aggregate fair market value (determined at the time the
      option is granted) of stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options
      are exercisable for the first time by such Employee during any calendar
      year shall not exceed $100,000.

           (iii) No option shall be granted to an employee if immediately before
      the option is granted the individual owns stock (within the meaning of
      section 422 of the Code) possessing more than ten percent of the total
      combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or a
      Subsidiary unless the option price is at least 110 percent of the fair
      market value of the Shares subject to option and such option, by its
      terms, is not exercisable after the expiration of five years from the date
      the option is granted.

      (h) Substitute Grants. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee of the
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Board may grant an option to an employee of another corporation who becomes an
Employee by reason of a corporate merger, consolidation, acquisition of stock or
property, reorganization or liquidation involving the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in substitution for a stock option or restricted stock grant
granted by such corporation ("Substituted Stock Incentives"). The terms and
conditions of the substitute stock option may vary from the terms and conditions
required by the Plan and from those of the Substituted Stock Incentives. The
Committee of the Board shall prescribe the provisions of the substitute
stock options.


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6.    Change in Capital Structure.
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      (a) If the number of issued Shares is increased or reduced by change in
par value, combination, split-up, recapitalization, reclassification,
distribution of a dividend payable in stock, or the like, the number of Shares
for which options may be granted specified in Section 3 shall be appropriately
adjusted. The number of Shares previously optioned and not theretofore delivered
and the option prices therefor shall likewise be appropriately adjusted whenever
the number of issued Shares is increased or reduced by any such procedure after
the date or dates on which such Shares were optioned.

      (b) In the event that the Company is succeeded by another corporation in a
reorganization, merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or stock,
separation or liquidation, the successor corporation shall assume the
outstanding options granted under this plan or shall substitute new options for
them.

      (c) Consistent with the foregoing, effective on the Merger Closing Date,
this Plan and all options outstanding thereunder were assumed by ARAMARK
Worldwide Corporation and adjusted in the manner more particularly described in
the Merger Agreement.

7.    Delivery of Shares or Cash.
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      (a) An option shall be exercised by giving the Company written notice of
such election to exercise and of the number of Shares to be purchased, in such
form as the Board or the Committee of the Board shall have prescribed or
approved.

      (b) No Shares shall be delivered upon the exercise of an option until the
option price has been paid in full in cash or, at the discretion of the Board or
the Committee of the Board, in whole or in part in Shares owned by the Optionee,
valued at fair market value on the date notice of exercise is received by the
Company.

      (c) In lieu of delivering Shares under paragraph (b) of this Section 7,
the Board or the Committee of the Board may elect, in its sole discretion, to
settle all or part of its obligation to deliver Shares by making a substitute
payment of cash, Shares or a combination of cash and Shares equal in value to
any excess of the fair market value (as of the date notice of exercise is
received by the Company) of the Shares which the Board or the Committee of the
Board elects not to deliver over the option price for such Shares. If the Board,
or the Committee of the Board, elects to satisfy its obligation by electing to
make a substitute payment of cash, Shares or a combination of both pursuant to
this paragraph (c) of this Section 7, the person exercising the option shall be
relieved of paying the option price for the Shares for which a substitute
payment is made.

      (d) If required by the Board no Shares will be delivered upon the exercise
of an option until the Optionee has given the Company (i) a satisfactory written
statement that he or she is acquiring the Shares for investment and not with a
view to the sale or distribution of any such Shares, (ii) a satisfactory written
opinion of counsel that exercise of the option and delivery of Shares will be in
compliance with all requirements of federal and state securities laws, (iii) a
written agreement not to sell any Shares received upon the exercise of the
option or any other shares of the Company that he or she may then own or
thereafter acquire except either (A) through a broker on the New York Stock
Exchange or another national securities exchange or (B) with the prior written
approval of the Company and (iv) a written agreement that may then be in effect
between the Company and any of its shareholders relating to the transfer of
Shares.

      (e) If at any time the Board or the Committee of the Board shall determine
that (1) the listing, registration or qualification of Shares upon any
securities exchange or under any state or federal law, or (2) the consent or
approval of any government regulatory body is necessary or desirable as a
condition of, or in connection with, the transfer to the Optionee of Shares
hereunder, such transfer may not be consummated in whole or in part unless such
listing, registration, qualification, consent or approval shall have been
effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Board or the
Committee of the Board.


8. Continuation of Employment. Neither the Plan nor any option granted
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thereunder shall confer upon any employee any right to continue in the employ of
the Company or any Subsidiary or limit in any respect the


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right of the Company or any Subsidiary to terminate his or her employment
at any time.

9. Administration. The Board or the Committee of the Board may make such rules
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and regulations and establish such procedures as it deems appropriate for the
administration of the Plan. In the event of a disagreement as to the
interpretation of the Plan or any amendment thereto or any rule, regulation or
procedure thereunder or as to any right or obligation arising from or related to
the Plan, the decision of the Board or the Committee of the Board shall be final
and binding upon all persons in interest including Employees, the Company and
its shareholders. As examples and not in limitation of the foregoing, the
Committee of the Board may adopt, amend, suspend, waive and rescind any rules or
regulations and appoint such agents as the Committee of the Board may deem
necessary or advisable to administer the Plan; correct any defect or reconcile
any inconsistency in the Plan and construe and interpret the Plan, any stock
option and any rules or regulations; and make any and all other decisions and
determinations as may be required under the terms of the Plan or as the
Committee of the Board may deem necessary or advisable for the administration of
the Plan. The Committee of the Board may delegate to officers or managers of the
Company or any Subsidiary the authority, subject to such terms as the Committee
of the Board shall determine, to perform administrative functions under the
Plan.

10. Reservation of Shares.  The Company shall reserve for issue or sale upon
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exercise of outstanding  options the appropriate  number of Shares, and such
Shares shall be identified as those optioned under the Plan.

11. Withholding. Whenever the Company determines that it has an obligation to
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withhold any federal, state or local tax by reason of the grant of an option
under the Plan or the delivery of Shares, cash or other property upon exercise
of an option granted under the Plan, the Company shall have the right to
withhold such tax or, where appropriate, to require the Optionee to remit to the
Company an amount sufficient to satisfy such federal, state or local withholding
obligation.

12. Duration of the Plan. No option shall be granted under the 1991 Plan more
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than ten years after November 12, 1991, and no option shall be granted under the
1987 Plan more than 10 years after May 11, 1987.

13. Amendment of the Plan. The Board without further action by the shareholders
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may amend the Plan from time to time as it deems desirable; provided that no
such amendment shall increase the maximum number of Shares for which options may
be granted, or reduce the minimum option price, or modify the class of employees
eligible to receive options, or extend the maximum option period, or permit the
granting of options after November 12, 2001 for the 1991 Plan or after May 11,
1997 for the 1987 Plan.

14. Termination of the Plan. The Board may, in its discretion, terminate the
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Plan at any time, but no such termination shall deprive Optionees of their
rights under outstanding options, except that the Board may, in connection with
the termination of the Plan, terminate any outstanding options by paying to the
Optionees an amount equal to the difference between the appraisal value of the
Shares and the exercise price.

15. Effective Date - Shareholder Approval. The 1991 Plan became effective as of
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November 12, 1991. The 1991 Plan was originally submitted to and approved by the
shareholders of the Company at a meeting held in February, 1995. The 1987 Plan
became effective as of May 12, 1987. The 1987 Plan was originally submitted to
and approved by shareholders of the Company at a meeting held in February, 1988.

16. SEC Rule 16b-3. - The Plan is intended to come within the safe harbor
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provided by SEC Rule 16b-3 (or any successor provision) with respect to persons
who are subject to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Any
provision required by such Rule to be set forth in the Plan is incorporated
herein by reference, and any inconsistent provision herein (other than Section
13) is superseded.

17. IRC Section 162(m). The Plan is intended to come within the provisions
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of Section 162(m) of the Code. Any provision required by such Section to be set
forth in the Plan is incorporated herein by reference, and any inconsistent
provision herein (other than Section 13) is superceded.


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18. Governing Law. The validity, construction and effect of the Plan, any rules
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and regulations relating to the Plan, and any options granted under the Plan
shall be determined in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware,
without giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws, and applicable federal
laws.


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