This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Provisions for 23 boarders 42 days $290.70
Wages of employes 6 weeks 312.00
Provisions for employes 42 days 113.67
Fuel, light, ice................ 36.00
Total...................... $752.37
This is within a fraction of 26 cents a meal for the paying people and is $5.45 a week each as the actual cost of first-class board and middle-class table service.
 
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