Twenty-seven food service workers at the Nova Scotia Community College are losing their jobs as the college outsources the work to a private company.

NSCC has hired Aramark Canada to run food services operations at its campuses. Previously, those operations were run by employees of the college and other companies.

The college says the profits brought in by some campus locations were not offset by ongoing losses at others, and the arrangement amounted to losses of about $800,000 each year.

"It's al…