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Featured Articles
Cover Story
Green is Good Business
Green Operations Increasingly Important to Feed Consumer Demand When Green Laundry Lounge co-owners Pulin and Krishna Dasai got into the vended laundry industry, they wanted to change a narrative: laundromats are water and energy-intensive businesses. “The...
Business Spotlight
Women in Vended Laundry: How Adrienne Huntington Keeps the Wheels Turning at SAMCO
If you’ve been in the laundry industry long enough, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Adrienne Huntington. Huntington is the managing partner at Southern Automatic Machinery Co. (SAMCO), and she’s been in the industry for 25 years. But her title doesn’t quite...
Columns
The Business Mind
House of Laundromats: Real Estate Trends and What to Watch
Laundromat real estate has seen a boom in recent years, thanks partially to an increase in publicity around the laundromat business via social media. The sector is now seeing significant activity as vacancy rates fall, rents rise, and operational models expand beyond...
Wash With Wally
Wash With Wally
Q1: One of my customers recently complained that the comforters she dried in my dryers came out with rust stains or burn marks. What can I do? First of all, you have to distinguish between a burn mark, a rust stain and something completely unrelated. Typically, if...
The Laundry Doctor
Commercial Laundry Stain Removal: Grease & Metal Stains
I have been asked to wash towels, dishcloths and oven mitts for a local café. These items have gray stains from the restaurant's aluminum baking pans. They soak the towels, but the cloths and mitts are badly stained. What can I use to get this laundry white again?...