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Business Bio: Wash-N-Fold Express
Dan Thanh Dang, Gary Miller, BangTam Miller and Quynh Simon Wash-N-Fold Express Edgewood, Md. Before Getting into the Laundry Business... All of the store's owners are still employed full-time outside of the laundry business. Dan Thanh Dang, a former newspaper...
Excellence 2016: The Best of the Best
The Industry's Leading Businesspeople Descend on Southern California to Take a ‘Look Forward' Nearly 200 of the nation's leading laundry owners and industry executives recently joined their peers for two days of high-level networking and progressive educational...
On the ‘Home’ Front
Grow Your Laundry Business by Offering Today's Homeowners What They Want For years, the general consensus had been that competing self-service laundries shared a finite customer base within a given marketplace. Following this line of reasoning, a new store in the...
Headlines
Minimum Wage Update: Elections Driving Legislative Activity
The last federal minimum wage increase - to $7.25 per hour, from $6.55 per hour - occurred on July 24, 2009. In the years since Congress last increased the minimum wage, state and local leaders across the country have introduced countless minimum wage proposals,...
Clean 2017 Among TSE’s ‘Fastest 50′
Clean 2017 has been named one of Trade Show Executive magazine's 50 Fastest-Growing Shows of 2017. The biennial Clean Show, held in Las Vegas last June, was included in all three categories of the publication's awards competition - net square feet of exhibit space,...
Huebsch Announces Store Owner of the Quarter
Huebsch has named Glen Sheeley the latest recipient of its Store Owner of the Quarter Award. The Sheeley family has been involved in the car wash business in Orange County, N.Y., for decades and had already owned two combination car wash/laundromats before deciding to...
CG West Rolls Out New Website
Continental Girbau West, based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., has launched a newly redesigned website - www.cg-west.com - which is focused on simple navigation and quality content, according to the company. "CG West serves Southern California with much more than...
Unchained!
Remove the Unrealistic Limits on Your Business and Professional Goals"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone." – Robert Allen, American authorNearly all of the hundreds of laundry owners I have consulted with over the years have expressed to me the...
Wash with Wally: Calculating Folding Space, Competing for Employees, More…
Is there some formula or rule of thumb that would guide me as far as how much folding space I should provide for my customers? According to most vended laundry industry data, three square feet of folding space for every dryer pocket in your facility is considered to...
Dexter Adds LaundryOne to Vended Laundry Distribution Network
Dexter Laundry recently announced that LaundryOne – a new commercial laundry distributor based in Columbus, Ohio – has been added to the manufacturer's Midwest distribution network for vended laundry equipment.The newly launched LaundryOne serves the vended,...
‘Innovation Is Not Just a Tagline’
Primus Brings More Than 100 Years of Success in Europe to the North American Commercial Laundry MarketFounded in 1911, Primus began its journey in Europe as a manufacturer of residential washing machines and household dishwashers.During the 1960s, the company realized...
Mastering the Art of the Possible
An Interview with State Tax Expert Joe Crosby Joe Crosby serves as the chief executive officer of MultiState Associates, the nation's leading state and local government relations services firm. He is involved in all aspects of the firm's efforts to help clients...
Managing Your Margins
How Laundry Owners Can Maximize Their Profits Despite Today's Ever-Changing Economic LandscapeSouthern California laundry owner Art Jaeger recently was scheduled to have state officials visit his laundries to conduct a workers' compensation classification audit.And,...
CG West to Host Vended Laundry Profit Symposium
Continental Girbau West will host its Conference of Champions Profit Symposium on April 7 at the company's headquarters in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. This event - which will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. - is expected to draw laundry owners and prospective investors...
An “Excellence” [sic] Opportunity to Connect with Manufacturers
As you may know, the Coin Laundry Association's biennial conference, Excellence in Laundry, takes place May 16-17, 2018 in Naples, Fla., at the luxurious Naples Grande Beach Resort. While the fun, education, and camaraderie will appeal to all of the attendees, one...
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This Month's Issue
- Tech on the Rise: How Operators Are Using Innovation to Run Smarter, Faster Laundromats: From AI phone systems to real-time data tracking, operators and suppliers share how technology is reshaping the modern laundry business and what’s coming next.
- Business Profile: Delivering a Superior
Laundry Experience - Member Spotlight: Rick Rome –
Innovating Laundry, One Customer at a Time - Guest Column: How AI Changed Google Reviews (What Laundromat Owners Need to Know)
- And More…
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Industry News
Girbau Mexico Names New General Manager
Girbau – headquartered in Vic, Spain – has appointed Ramiro Gordillo as general manager of the company’s subsidiary in Mexico. With this appointment, Girbau has strengthened its management team in Mexico to help drive its growth in the country and continue its...
Summit 2020: Literacy-Rich Spaces in Everyday Places
The LaundryCares Foundation, Too Small to Fail Host 3rd Annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit In mid-September, more than 870 laundromat owners, librarians, educators and philanthropists came together for the 3rd annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit, a three-day virtual...
CLA Survey: Coin Shortage Continues to Plague Laundromats
The Coin Laundry Association recently solicited store-owner input on the current coin shortage, in an effort to gauge the size and scope of its impact on the industry. Among those who responded to the association’s survey, 65 percent of the laundry operators admitted...
Superior Laundry Names Regional Sales Manager
Superior Laundry Equipment Co., headquartered in New York City, recently named Justin Tucci regional sales manager for the company’s newly acquired territory of southern New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and select northern counties of Maryland. Tucci boasts...
CLA Offers New Healthcare Insurance Program
The Coin Laundry Association has teamed up with LIG Solutions – a division of Lighthouse Insurance Group – to offer CLA members, as well as their families and employees, access to exclusive healthcare insurance coverage. The offerings through this new agreement...
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Columns
The Laundry Doctor
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The Business Mind
Stay Tuned
Originally posted - Jan 03, 2013 In a recent column, I discussed a relatively new field called neuromarketing, which combines neuroscience and marketing strategies, and is creating off-the-charts excitement and credibility in several business sectors around the world....
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Cleaning Cloth Napkins
Originally posted - Apr 09, 2014 I have a commercial client who wants my store to take over the cloth napkin laundry service for his Italian restaurant. I'm not sure what is required to perform a quality service for this specific account. The napkins are red and often...
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