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FILED AS OF DATE:		20100401
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20100401
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20100401

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			UNIFIRST CORP
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000717954
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-PERSONAL SERVICES [7200]
		IRS NUMBER:				042103460
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0830

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		FORM TYPE:		S-8
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-165840
		FILM NUMBER:		10723013

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		68 JONSPIN RD
		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01887
		BUSINESS PHONE:		(978) 658-8888

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		68 JONSPIN ROAD
		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01887

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INTERSTATE UNIFORM SERVICES CORP/MA
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19840410
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2010</font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:right;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Registration Statement No. 333-&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:11.25pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=4>UNITED STATES</font></B></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=4>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></B></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2> </font><B><font SIZE=2>WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549</font></B></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:11.25pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=4>FORM S-8</font></B></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:6pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2> </font><B><font SIZE=2>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</font></B></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:6pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=4>UNIFIRST CORPORATION</font></B></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2> (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</font></p>

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<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Massachusetts</font></b></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>04-2103460</font></b></p> </td>
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<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>incorporation or organization)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(I.R.S. Employer</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Identification No.)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font size=2>68 Jonspin Road </font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font size=2>Wilmington, MA 01887</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><font size=2>(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)</font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>UniFirst Corporation 1996 Stock Incentive Plan</font></b><br> <font size=2> (Full title of the plan</font><i><font size=2>)</font></i></p>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Ronald D. Croatti</font></b></p>
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<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>UniFirst Corporation</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>68 Jonspin Road</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Wilmington, MA 01887</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Name and address of agent for service of process)</font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>(978) 658-8888</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)</font></p>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>With copy to:</font><br> <b><font size=2>Raymond C. Zemlin</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Goodwin Procter LLP</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Exchange Place</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>Boston, Massachusetts 02109-2881</font></b></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><b><font size=2>(617) 570-1000</font></b></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:7.69%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of &#147;large accelerated filer,&#148; &#147;accelerated filer&#148; and &#147;smaller reporting company&#148; in Rule&nbsp;12b-2 of the Exchange Act. </font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Accelerated filer <FONT FACE="WingDings" SIZE="2">&#254</font> </font></p> </td>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=2>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE</font></B></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Amount to be<BR>registered (1)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Proposed<BR>maximum offering<BR>price per share (2)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Proposed maximum<BR>aggregate offering<BR>price (2)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Amount of<BR>registration fee<BR>(2)</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>700,000 shares</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>$37,394,000</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), this Registration Statement also covers any additional shares of Common Stock of UniFirst Corporation that become issuable under the UniFirst Corporation 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, by reason of any stock dividend, stock split or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration, which results in an increase in the number of the outstanding shares of Common Stock of UniFirst Corporation.</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rules&nbsp;457(c) and 457(h) under the Securities Act.  The registration fee is based upon the average of the high and low prices of shares of Common Stock of UniFirst Corporation as reported on the New York Stock Exchange on March 26, 2010.</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<B><font SIZE=2>INTRODUCTORY NOTE</font></B></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.92%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>This Registration Statement on Form&nbsp;S-8 (this &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) is being filed by UniFirst Corporation (the &#147;Registrant&#148;) for the purpose of registering an additional 700,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share, which may be issued pursuant to the UniFirst Corporation 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the &#147;Plan&#148;).  Following the registration of the additional 700,000 shares under this Registration Statement, a total of 1,500,000 shares will be registered under the Plan.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:7.69%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>The securities subject to this Registration Statement are of the same class as other securities for which Registration Statements on Form S-8 were previously declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#147;Commission&#148;).  Accordingly, pursuant to General Instruction E to Form S-8, the Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement, unless specified herein, the contents of the Registration Statements on Form S-8 previously filed with the Commission on: (i) February 3, 2000 (File No. 333-96097), (ii) February 13, 2002 (File No. 333-82682) and (iii) April 16, 2007 (File No. 333-142138). </font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=2>PART II</font></B></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=2>INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT</font></B></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Restated Articles of Organization (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Articles of Amendment dated January&nbsp;13, 1988 (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Articles of Amendment dated January&nbsp;21, 1993 (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>By-laws (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on January 10, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Specimen Stock Certificate for Shares of Common Stock (previously filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Opinion of Goodwin Procter </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Consent of Ernst &amp; Young LLP</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Consent of Goodwin Procter </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font><font size=2> (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>____________</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>* Filed herewith.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=2>SIGNATURES</font></B></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:7.38%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form&nbsp;S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Wilmington, Massachusetts, on this 1st day of April, 2010.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:47.38%;text-align:left;'><font SIZE=2>UNIFIRST CORPORATION</font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>By:  </font><u><font size=2>/s/ Ronald D. Croatti</font></u></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:47%; text-indent:2%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Ronald D. Croatti</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:47%; text-indent:2%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Chief Executive Officer and President </font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><B><font SIZE=2>POWER OF ATTORNEY </font></B></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that each individual whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Ronald D. Croatti such person&#146;s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for such person and in such person&#146;s name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as such person might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any said attorney-in-fact and
agent, or any substitute or substitutes of any of them, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.</font></p>

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<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Ronald D. Croatti</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and<BR>President (Principal Executive Officer)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Steven S. Sintros</font></u>                                                                                                                                                                             <font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Steven S. Sintros</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial<BR>Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Phillip L. Cohen</font></u>                                                                                                                                                                                <font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Phillip L. Cohen</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Robert F. Collings</font></u>                                                                                                                                                                     <font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Robert F. Collings</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Cynthia Croatti</font></u>                                                                                                                                                                                       <font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Cynthia Croatti</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=1>&nbsp;</font></p> </td> </tr>
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            <p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>/s/ Anthony F. DiFillippo</font></u>                                                                                                                                            <font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>
<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Anthony F. DiFillippo</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Donald J. Evans</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Michael Iandoli</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr>
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<p style='margin-left:222.0pt;text-indent:-222.0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Thomas S. Postek</font><u></u></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Director</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Restated Articles of Organization (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Articles of Amendment dated January&nbsp;13, 1988 (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.2 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Articles of Amendment dated January&nbsp;21, 1993 (previously filed as Exhibit&nbsp;3.3 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>4.5</font></p> </td>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Specimen Stock Certificate for Shares of Common Stock (previously filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K on July 5, 2006 and incorporated herein by reference)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Opinion of Goodwin Procter </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Consent of Ernst &amp; Young LLP</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Consent of Goodwin Procter </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font><font size=2> (included in Exhibit&nbsp;5.1)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><font size=2>Power of Attorney (included as part of the signature page to this Registration Statement)</font></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:right;'><b><font size=2>Exhibit 5.1</font></b></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:50%; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>UniFirst Corporation</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>68 Jonspin Road</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Wilmington, MA 01887</font></p>

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            <p style='margin-left:0pt;text-indent:0pt;text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt'><u><font size=2>Securities Being Registered under Registration Statement on Form S-8</font></u></p> </td> </tr></table>
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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Ladies and Gentlemen:</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>This opinion letter is furnished to you in connection with your filing of a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the &#147;Registration Statement&#148;) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#147;Securities Act&#148;), on or about the date hereof relating to an aggregate of 700,000  shares (the &#147;Shares&#148;) of Common Stock, $0.10 par value per share, of  UniFirst Corporation, a Massachusetts corporation (the &#147;Company&#148;), that may be issued pursuant to the Company&#146;s 1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended (the &#147;Plan&#148;).</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinion expressed below.  We have relied, without independent verification, on certificates of public officials and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on certificates of officers of the Company.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>The opinion expressed below is limited to Massachusetts law.</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>For purposes of the opinion expressed below, we have assumed that a sufficient number of authorized but unissued shares of the Company&#146;s Common Stock will be available for issuance when the Shares are issued.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares have been duly authorized and, upon issuance and delivery against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. </font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>&nbsp;</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:8.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>We hereby consent to the inclusion of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement.  In giving our consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section&nbsp;7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:58.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>Very truly yours,</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:58.33%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>/s/ Goodwin Procter </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt; text-indent:58.33%;text-align:left;'><font SIZE=2>GOODWIN PROCTER </font><font SIZE=2>LLP</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'><b><font size=2>Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm</font></b></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:center;'>&nbsp;</p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2>We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form S-8) pertaining to the UniFirst Corporation 1996 Stock Incentive Plan of our reports dated November 12, 2009, with respect to the consolidated financial statements and schedule of UniFirst Corporation and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of UniFirst Corporation, included in its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended August 29, 2009, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-indent:65%;text-align:left;'><font size=2>/s/ Ernst &amp; Young LLP</font></p>

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<p style=' margin-bottom:0pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;'><font size=2>Boston, Massachusetts</font></p>

<p style=' margin-bottom:10pt; margin-top:0pt;text-align:left;line-height:115%;'><font size=2>April 1, 2010</font></p>

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