Wash-Dry-Fold POS Launches New Feature

Wash-Dry-Fold POS® has announced its new Attendant Checklist Feature. According to Managing Partner Ian Gollahon, it is a simple but integrated tool that is so powerful, it’ll make you wonder how you ever ran your business without it. "You can monitor the checklist...

LaundroLab Celebrates National Laundry Day – April 15

LaundroLab to Offer Free Laundry, Resources Nationwide for National Laundry Day In celebration of National Laundry Day on April 15, 2025, LaundroLab—an innovative laundromat brand focused on reimagining the wash experience—is giving back to local communities by...

I’d Like to Speak to the Manager

On the Front Lines with Some of the Laundry Industry’s Leading Store Managers In an industry once dominated by unattended, self-service operations, the role of store managers in laundromats has never been more critical. As laundries evolve into full-service businesses...

Tide Laundromat Expands Footprint in Chicago

Tide Services, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, is expanding its Tide Laundromat footprint in Chicago with a new location in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood. The fourth Tide Laundromat in Chicago, this location is part of an expansion led by U.S. Laundry LLC,...

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Going Through Rebab

Jan 30, 2015

Originally posted - Oct issue/2012 Written By: Chris Aycock A New Multi-Store Owner Discusses How He's Breathed New Life into a Couple of Old, Closed-Down Laundromats Professionally, I'm a software engineer, not a coin laundry veteran. However, during the last three...

Going Through Rebab

Jan 30, 2015

Originally posted - Oct issue/2012 Written By: Chris Aycock A New Multi-Store Owner Discusses How He's Breathed New Life into a Couple of Old, Closed-Down Laundromats Professionally, I'm a software engineer, not a coin laundry veteran. However, during the last three...

Tropical Laundry In Holly Hill, Florida

Jan 30, 2015

Owners: Chance and Janine Stone Laundry: Topical Laundry Location: Holly Hill, Florida Before Getting into the Laundry Business… The Stones previously owned a surf shop in the Florida panhandle. Currently, Chance also is a territory manager for a food...

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D&M Equipment Holds Service School for Korean Operators

D&M Equipment Co., headquartered in Chicago, recently hosted a service school that focused strictly on Korean laundry owners in the area. The educational session was conducted by Dexter Laundry's Shane Palmer, along with local service technician Don Ha. More than...

Washio Shuts Down Operations

Washio – the on-demand laundry service that launched in 2013 to much fanfare – has announced it will shutter its services, effective immediately. In a letter posted to the company's website, Washio's founders announced that no new orders will go through the service,...

CG West Strengthens Technical Support Staff

Continental Girbau West, based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., recently named Efrain Munoz as technical support and service manager, along with adding Hilario Valdovinos as service technician. "We are thrilled to have Efrain and Hilario as part of the CG West team," said...

Wash with Wally: Cleaning a Wedding Gown, Offering Ironing Services, and More…

I own a laundromat in a small town without a drycleaner, and one of my customers recently brought in a white wedding gown for me to clean. It is made from a synthetic material, which I believe is polyester. How can I clean it? Before you do anything, be absolutely...

An Excellent Opportunity

Five years ago, the Coin Laundry Association launched its Excellence in Laundry Conference. This year marked the third biennial event, and plans are already in place for the 2018 event. Given that, I want to share a few of my own takeaways from this year's Excellence...

‘No Tears in the Writer, No Tears in the Reader’

Current Research into the Human Brain Has Begun to Explain How and Why Customers React to Marketing Messages in the Way They Do "As regarding advertising, you've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut, because if they don't feel it, nothing...

Wash with Wally: Preventing Dryer Fires, 3 Keys to a Successful Location, More…

I own a laundry located in a small strip center. I'm having a problem with the landlord, concerning vibration that my large washers create when they go into their spin cycles. My floor is made of flexicore concrete, and the floor and walls shake until the spin cycle...

Pierce Commercial Supports Louisiana Flood Relief Efforts

With recent flooding across Louisiana devastating thousands of residents and businesses throughout portions of the state, Pierce Commercial Laundry - based in Mandeville, La. - has announced that it will donate 5 percent of all sales to customers replacing...

Free Laundry Day Rocks Baltimore

More Than 16,000 Pounds of Clothes Washed During LaundryCares Event at Laundry City The Coin Laundry Association's LaundryCares Foundation – along with more than 60 volunteers from 13 states – hosted a free laundry day on July 28 in Baltimore. "The LaundryCares' free...

Laundry Does Matter

An Interview with Loving America Street Executive Director Samantha Sammis Loving America Street is a faith-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes sustainability and preservation within the Eastside neighborhood of Charleston, S.C., through community...

Business Bio: Beal’s Bubbles

Carol Beal and Hanna Christian Beal's Bubbles West Columbia and Sweeny, Texas Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Carol was a sales representative for Hanes Hosiery in Houston area. Store Openings The West Columbia store opened in January 2004, and the Sweeny...

Floor It!

Laundry Owners Explain What They Love (and Hate) About Their Stores' Flooring "We like to say that the floor covering is the canvas on which the rest of the store is painted." – Edward Korczak, former executive director, National Wood Flooring Association To be sure,...

This Month's Issue

‘I’d Like to Speak to the Manager’: On the Front Lines with Some of the Laundry Industry’s Leading Store Managers
Business Management: Generate Additional Income Through Greater Market Penetration
Company Close-Up: Western State Design Has Been Helping Laundry Owners Thrive for More Than 50 Years
New Member Spotlight: How Laundry Labs Plans to Change the Industry
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Laundries Connecting Communities: The Clean Show 2019 Opener

Clean 2019 Opens with Packed Session Focused on the Initiatives of the LaundryCares Foundation Coin Laundry Association President and CEO Brian Wallace welcomed more than 150 attendees to the organization's first educational seminar of Clean 2019 at the Ernest N....

LaundryCares Foundation Hosts Free Laundry Day in New Orleans

On the eve of Clean 2019, the Coin Laundry Association’s LaundryCares Foundation hosted a free laundry day in New Orleans. This event was held from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at two laundry locations in the show’s host city — Laundromat Zone and Wash World. Free Laundry...

Yankee Equipment Hosts Record-Breaking Sales Event

Yankee Equipment Systems' St. Patrick’s Day Sales and Education Exhibition broke attendance and sales records for the annual weekend event. Vended laundry owners and potential investors from throughout the New England and upstate New York areas packed the Westin Hotel...

Statewide Laundry Equipment Holds Grand Opening at Georgia Facility

Statewide Laundry Equipment – with locations in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Smyrna, Ga. – recently celebrated the grand opening of its newest office in Smyrna. The open house event gave guests, including current laundry owners and potential investors, a...

Aaxon Announces New VP of Multi-Housing Laundry

Aaxon Laundry Systems has named Mark Freesman its new vice president of multi-housing laundry. The industry veteran previously worked for Aaxon’s partner, Alliance Laundry Systems, and will help direct Aaxon’s investment and growth strategy in multi-housing projects –...