True, dairy farms already scan their herds with electronic implants, but it is a far cry from a milking shed to a herd of muddy steers in a Colorado blizzard.
Besides providing food service and groundskeeping for the 900, 000 square meters of lawn space at the headquarters of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Plano, Texas, Aramark also maintains a herd of buffalo and longhorn steers there--part of the landscape since Ross Perot founded the company in 1962.