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The Laundry Doctor
Reaching the ‘Finish’ Line
Originally posted -Mar 01, 2013 There are several ways to bridge the gap between doing "traditional" wash-dry-fold at your store and taking it a step further to offer your customers a more finished laundry product. A lot of laundry owners have bridged that gap by...
The ‘Inn’ Crowd
Originally posted - Nov 16, 2012 One of the most profitable and high-volume commercial accounts a self-service laundry owner can acquire is a small hotel. Typically, such accounts are 20- to 45-room hotels that may or may not have their own laundry facilities – and...
Plan Your Work… Work Your Plan
Originally posted - Jul 18, 2014 When I first got into the laundry business, I was skeptical as to whether or not I needed to write a business plan. However, it was something the SBA required (or at least strongly encouraged), so I went through the process of creating...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Cleaning Drain Lines and Lint Traps
Is there a chemical and/or preventive maintenance procedure that will keep our main drain line clean? Occasionally, we experience a backup of water, which seems to be due to a buildup of a black greasy residue within the line. Would you recommend a periodic flush of...
Wash with Wally: Researching a Former Laundry Location
I do a considerable amount of drop-off laundry at my store, and I always seem to have a problem removing chewing gum from garments. Can you offer any suggestions for removing it? There are two ways to deal with this problem. One way is to spot it with a good paint and...
Wash with Wally: Sanitizing Medical Laundry
I just landed a commercial account where I will be required to launder rags used to clean medical equipment. However, I'm unsure as to the specific water temperature needed to completely clean and sanitize these items. I heard somewhere that 140-degree water was...
The Business Mind
Hiring Good People
Here Are the Keys to Conducting an Effective Job Interview If you own or manage an attended laundry business, it's no secret that at some point in time you're definitely going to have to advertise for and interview prospective attendants. This task just comes with the...
Going Off-Script
How to Raise Your Laundry Business Above and Beyond the CompetitionYou might assume – understandably so – that most customers select a specific laundry based essentially upon location, vend prices and hours of operation. But that just isn't so.Let me explain...
Hard Facts on Dealing with the ‘Soft Costs’ of Business Ownership
Are Stress, Customer Diversity and Managing Your Employees Taking Their Toll on You and Your Laundry Operation? In general, self-service laundry owners typically face about 11 or 12 costs on a monthly basis. These costs can range from utilities and labor to vended...
Viewpoint
Clean 2015: Basic Training – Coin Laundry Style
In addition to veteran laundry owners looking to stay one step ahead with regard to the latest trends and technology, the Clean Show has always served as a starting point for potential investors doing their due diligence. However, as the economy improves and with a...
Clean 2015: Wash-Dry-Fold, Commercial Accounts Dominate the Show’s Third Day
With more and more self-service laundry owners looking to grow their businesses through the addition of wash-dry-fold services and commercial accounts work, the Coin Laundry Association – on the third day of Clean 2015 in Atlanta – dedicated the entire morning's...
Clean 2015 Attendance Tops Previous Show
Just two days into Clean 2015 in Atlanta, the laundry industry's biennial trade show has already surpassed the attendance figure of the 2013 event in New Orleans by approximately 5 percent. What's more, the Atlanta show's net square footage of 189,300 square feet is...
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