This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
The washing of table cloths and napkins is an expense large enough to change the grade of the house that cannot afford it from the one that can; it must be paid for by the boarders and consequently affects the price of board. In such a house as the one we write of, however, it is not practicable to make a separate account of it. Good hotel managers expect the money earned by the laundry to pay its way and pay for the laundry work of the house; probably such was the case here and it need not affect our estimates.
 
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