Member Spotlight: Lab-Tested, Laundry-Approved

How Laundry Labs Plans to Change the Industry In today’s business world, efficiency and quality are paramount – and the commercial laundry industry is no exception. Recognizing the need for superior cleaning solutions specifically tailored to laundromat operators,...

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...

PlanetLaundry Podcast

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Teamwork (Part 2)

Originally posted - Jul 23, 2014 [This is the second of a two-part series on ways to build a successful team of laundry attendants.] We recently reached out to a number of self-service laundry owners and asked them to briefly outline their team management practices...

A Sense of Community

Originally posted - Dec 20, 2013 When the Tasty Baking Company (makers of the popular Tastykake line of snack foods) decided to relocate its production facility, the move opened up a 30-acre parcel of prime real estate in northern Philadelphia, where the company's...

A New Beginning

Originally posted - Jan 27, 2014 After years of unclogging other people's pipes as a licensed master plumber, Florida's Willy Gibson turned his attention to a completely different type of pipe, as the co-owner - along with his wife Margie - of a Pensacola-based smoke...

Headlines

My Coin Laundry Success Story

Originally posted - July issue/2012 I have owned a small, unattended laundromat for four years. I am by no means an expert in the field. However, there are two bits of advice I might be able to give regarding what could potentially cause a business to fail, and...

Seeing the Light

Originally posted - Feb 26, 2014 An energy-efficient retrofit from T8 fluorescent lighting to state-of-the-art LED tubes at Holmen Coin Laundry in Holmen, Wis., will deliver savings on the owner's electric bill of more than 60 percent. Owner Karl Maas operates 31...

‘A Darker Shade of Green’

Originally posted - Aug 08, 2012 When I was asked to share some tips and strategies about our green laundries, I went to work listing all of the cost justifications. I thought I might motivate existing laundry owners reading this article to call their local...

You’re Not ‘Just a Laundromat’

Originally posted - Apr 24, 2013 By definition, branding is the process involved in creating a unique name and image for a product in the consumer's mind. Unfortunately, in the self-service laundry industry, this generally does not exist. It's something that's often...

From Average to Awesome

Originally posted - May 27, 2014 [This is the first in a two-part series on fine-tuning the wash-dry-fold process.] Back in his 1970s heyday, actor Burt Reynolds once referred to marriage as "the most expensive way for the average man to get his laundry done."...

Marketing a Rural Location

Originally posted - Sept issue/2012 Written By: Scott and Penny Williams Laundry Owners Share How They've Grown Their Business in a Small, Tourist Community Until recently, there was no laundromat in the town of Alton, N.H. If members of this 5,300-person community...

The Future of Laundry Is Here

Originally posted - Feb 14, 2014 Written By: Cathy Johnson The multi-family laundry room may not be the first place you think of as being "high-tech." However, new technology applications are transforming the laundry room experience for both residents and property...

One Good Turn Daily

Originally posted - Apr 04, 2012 Many of us – even the uninitiated – know the Boy Scout motto to "Be prepared." However, few, if any, probably know the Scout slogan, "Do a good turn daily." And, with the day-to-day grind of running an American self-service laundry (or...

Keep the Change

Originally posted - Apr 27, 2012 Changer maintenance is extremely important for today's self-service laundries. Unfortunately, many laundry owners simply dump in the quarters, pull out the bills and never give a second thought to any routine maintenance of these...

The Anatomy of a 504 Loan

Originally posted - Oct 01, 2013 Growing up, did you ever have someone make you toe the line in a certain way and all you could do was gripe about it, and it was only later that you realized they were doing you a huge favor? That's how I feel about my local bank. They...

Taking a Systems Approach to Energy Efficiency

Originally posted - Mar 26, 2012 In recent years, energy efficiency has become a hot topic for the self-service laundry industry, and coin laundry owners now have more options than ever to reduce their energy consumption. What's more, most industry experts will agree...

Securing Financing

Originally posted - Apr 17, 2012 When starting a new business venture, the initial capital investment is one of the first preparatory measures an investor will need to research. Your research will lead you to a reputable equipment distributor who will want to know how...

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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
  • And More…

THE LATEST ON LAUNDROMATS

Industry News

The Laundry Project Holds Free Laundry Event in Iowa

The Laundry Project, a charitable organization based in Tampa, recently held a successful free laundry event at Wash-N-Dry laundromat in Des Moines, Iowa - paying for customers' laundry loads and even painting a mural on one of the store's exterior walls. "Laundry,...

Four Steps to Facebook Success

Now That You've Created a Facebook Page, Here Are the Four Foundations of Social Media Mastery By Bonnie Hanson [This is the second in a series of articles on how to market your laundry business through Facebook. The first article appeared in the September 2017 issue...

Laundry Owners Warehouse Releases First Film of New Series

Laundry Owners Warehouse, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has released the first short film in a planned series, which will focus on brand building and generating brand awareness. The first film can now be seen exclusively at the company's website,...

Huebsch Names Store Owner of the Quarter

Huebsch has named Adam Dixon the latest recipient of its Store Owner of the Quarter Award. Dixon, who decided he needed a career change, closed his chiropractic practice and built Duck River Laundry in Shelbyville, Tenn. "The laundry Adam opened is an example of the...

Dexter University Hosts Service Academy

Dexter Laundry recently hosted many of the industry's leading service technicians during its Dexter University – Service Academy. Representing more than 200 years of experience in the laundry industry, the Service Academy attendees included technicians who are...

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