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...

Leveling the Playing Field

John Um wanted to make sure small business owners could get fair pricing and access to reliable suppliers without needing to have significant buying power. As a leader whose career spanned several major retail and e-commerce companies, he had seen firsthand how hard...

Staying Fierce: Haley Gould Finds Perfect Fit in Vended Laundry

Haley Gould is the Director of Partner Success for HappyNest. She manages an internal team while leading more than 100 partners across the United States building a successful pickup and delivery operation in addition to running their laundromat business. A consummate...

Metrics That Matter

Profit, Performance, and Planning in Vended Laundry The laundromat business is like most businesses in that you need to do a lot of things right to be successful. But how do you know if it’s working? According to successful owners, you just need to look at the...

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Common Sense vs. Company Policy

Jan 22, 2015

The concept of common sense clashed with company policy in a decision regarding an El Torito Restaurant in Burlingame, Calif. A disabled individual requested permission to use the employee restroom on the first floor, to avoid dealing with the 18-stair climb leading...

Liability Can Be a Slippery Slope

Jan 22, 2015

Picture this scenario: A woman slips and falls on the floor of your self-service laundry and suffers substantial injury to her back. An ambulance is called to transport the customer to a nearby hospital. The wailing sound of the siren grows fainter and fainter as the...

Lease Option: Future Rent Shall Be Determined By Mutual Agreement

Jan 22, 2015

In an action arising out of San Francisco, a tenant entered into a written lease with a landlord for a term of five years. The lease contained an option provision, which provided as follows: "Providing the Lessee has faithfully performed all of the terms, covenants...

Headlines

Second Time Around

Originally posted - Sep 24, 2013 Avenue Coin Laundry in Libertyville, Ill., opened its doors for the first time this past July. However, store owner Ron Parsons is hardly new to the self-service laundry industry. "In 1979, I bought a place called the Carousel Coin...

‘Landlord and Tenant’

[ Originally posted - Feb 25, 2014 As the president of Alabama-based Joy Enterprises, Mark Joy is clearly one of the leaders within the franchised fast-food business in his state. With nearly 20 Subway restaurants, a half dozen Long John Silver's locations and a...

Giving Back

Originally posted - Nov 19, 2013 Jeff Lindemann likes to say that he's probably not the best businessman. However, the facts are the facts. And the former police officer and his wife, Mandy, currently own and operate not one or two - but three - successful businesses...

The Tax Man

Originally posted - Feb 20, 2014 Joe Crosby is a senior vice president and principal at MultiState Associates, which provides ongoing legislative monitoring and lobbying assistance to the Coin Laundry Association. Prior to joining MultiState, Crosby spent 11 years...

‘The Quarter is Our Workhorse’

Originally posted - Apr 02, 2014 Jon Cameron's career in U.S. currency began in 1972 at the Baltimore Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In 1987, moving from cash operations to cash policy and Reserve Bank oversight, he transferred to the Board of...

Committed to Your Success

Originally posted - May 06, 2014 Julie O'Rourke has spent the last 20 years in trade association management. For the past four years, she has served as the director of membership for the Coin Laundry Association. Prior to joining the CLA, Julie was the assistant...

Build Your Brand

Originally posted - Dec 23, 2013 As CEO of brand management firm Turkel Brands, Bruce Turkel has been creating and working with valuable brands for more than 25 years. Born and raised in Miami, Mr. Turkel studied design at the University of Florida and rushed to New...

CLA Member of the Year

An Interview with Chicago Multi-Store Owner Paul HansenPaul Hansen is a third-generation laundry owner who owns six vended laundries in Chicago. He also currently serves as the president of the Illinois Coin Laundry Association.This past June, at the Clean Show in Las...

Watch Your Language

[ Originally posted - Feb 17, 2012 Words are extremely powerful in the world of marketing. In fact, I'd argue that nothing is more important. Every word you choose for your advertising will either help you or hurt you. Not many words are neutral in their effect on...

Wash with Wally: Removing Diesel Fuel Stains, Cleaning Table Clothes, More…

What special requirements are needed to launder items that have been stained by diesel fuel? If you’re trying to wash garments or fabrics that have been drenched with diesel fuel, my recommendation is to be very sure that the fuel has evaporated completely...

Commercial Real Estate

Originally posted - Jun 27, 2013 Some of today's self-service laundry owners are multi-store operators who have studied and learned the real estate business thanks to a series of building purchases and retail storefront leases over the years. Others are real estate...

Fighting the Good Fight

Originally posted - May 01, 2013 The protection of the sales tax exemption for self-service laundries has been the Coin Laundry Association's leading legislative priority for more than 30 years. It's an issue the organization continually monitors – and, therefore,...

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Industry News

Statewide Laundry Equipment Honors Jim Rogers

Statewide Laundry Equipment - with offices in Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando and Miami - is celebrating the 32-year laundry industry career of Jim Rogers, who currently serves as vice president of the company's central Florida offices. Rogers has been with Statewide for...

Continental Employees Contribute to Local Habitat for Humanity Effort

Continental Girbau Inc. employees recently contributed to a Habitat for Humanity project near the company's headquarters in Oshkosh, Wis. Two Continental teams donned hard hats and tool belts in an effort to build an ADA-compliant twindominum to accommodate two...

Great Lakes’ Product Expos ‘Rock’ the Industry

Great Lakes Commercial Sales Inc., a division of WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, celebrated its 25th anniversary by "Rockin' the Industry" with more than 200 attendees at the company's annual product expos, which were held throughout the Midwest during April and...

Setomatic, SpyderWash Introduce New Product Features at Clean 2017

In the August print and digital versions of PlanetLaundry magazine, we inadvertently included incorrect copy under the "Setomatic/SpyderWash"listing. We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused. Here is the correct product description:...

Washlava Launches App-Enabled Laundromat

Washlava - a mobile technology startup based in Tampa, Fla. - recently reported that it has launched the world's first exclusively app-enabled laundromat in Tampa. The Washlava-branded store is completely coin-free and cashless, with the laundry's Huebsch equipment...