The Headlines That Shaped the Year in Laundry (Part 1)
The Four Most Prominent Story Lines Impacting Owners in 2021 If this were a typical year, we’d likely be using these pages to recap a successful Clean Show. However, 2021 – much like its predecessor – was anything but typical. Early on, it became apparent that Clean...
Healthcare Startup Brings Community Wellness to Laundromats
Fabric Health, a healthcare startup founded in Philadelphia earlier this year, is working to close gaps in community care and to make healthcare more accessible to busy, low-income families. And it’s doing so by transforming neighborhood laundromats into community...
‘Learning in Everyday Spaces’
New Partnerships Forged at 4th Annual Summit, Hosted by LaundryCares and Too Small to Fail At the 4th annual Learning in Everyday Spaces Summit – held September 21, 23 and 28, and hosted by the Coin Laundry Association’s LaundryCares Foundation and the Clinton...
Business Ownership: You Can Get There from Here!
Make 2022 the Year You Become a Laundromat Operator “All that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Charles Kingsley, British historian, novelist and poet Over the years, I’ve noticed a recurring theme – it’s that the desire to...
Wash with Wally: Dealing with a Dryer Fire
I recently had a dryer fire at my laundromat. A customer had placed a mix of synthetic, nylon and cotton garments into one of my dryers at the “hot” setting for more than 45 minutes. There was no type of electrical issue with the dryer. In fact, the dryer worked...
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