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Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 27, 2011
Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract] |
Schedule II - Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | Schedule II - Valuation and qualifying accounts and reserves for each of the three years in the period ended August 27, 2011 UNIFIRST CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES SCHEDULE II VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS AND RESERVES FOR EACH OF THE THREE YEARS IN THE PERIOD ENDED AUGUST 27, 2011 (IN THOUSANDS)
Description |  | Balance, Beginning of Period |  |  | Charged to Costs and Expenses |  |  | Charges for Which Reserves Were Created or Deductions |  |  | Balance, End of Period |
Reserves for Accounts Receivable |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
For the year ended August 27, 2011 |  | $ | 4,102 |  |  | $ | 3,751 |  |  | $ | (3,652 | ) |  | $ | 4,201 |
For the year ended August 28, 2010 |  | $ | 5,567 |  |  | $ | 2,733 |  |  | $ | (4,198 | ) |  | $ | 4,102 |
For the year ended August 29, 2009 |  | $ | 4,164 |  |  | $ | 5,744 |  |  | $ | (4,341 | ) |  | $ | 5,567 |
Reserve for Obsolete Inventory |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
For the year ended August 27, 2011 |  | $ | 1,783 |  |  | $ | 52 |  |  | $ | (425 | ) |  | $ | 1,410 |
For the year ended August 28, 2010 |  | $ | 1,588 |  |  | $ | 867 |  |  | $ | (672 | ) |  | $ | 1,783 |
For the year ended August 29, 2009 |  | $ | 1,722 |  |  | $ | 624 |  |  | $ | (758 | ) |  | $ | 1,588 |
Separate financial statements of the Company have been omitted because the Company is primarily an operating company and all subsidiaries included in the Consolidated Financial Statements are totally held. All other schedules have been omitted since the required information is not present or not present in amounts sufficient to require submission of the schedule, or because the information required is included in the financial statements or the notes thereto.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 09 -Article 12 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e24092-122690 + Details
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