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 laundromat...

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...

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June 2025 Cover of PlanetLaundry Magazine

This Month's Issue

 

  • Get Clear to Keep it Clean: Find Focus to Maximize Your Marketing Efforts
  • Women In Laundry: From the Washroom to the Boardroom
  • Store Profile: Southern Suds Changing the Game
  • Member Spotlight: Hutchinson Belt Drive Systems
  • And More…

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Speed Queen Launches Art of the Journey Contest

Speed Queen is now accepting entries for its third annual contest, which will pay off one deserving store owner's replacement loan through Speed Queen Financial Services, up to $100,000. From now through October 31, owners who reinvest in their stores with new Speed...

Millions of Workers Soon to be Newly Eligible for Overtime Pay

In a move to help boost low- and middle-income paychecks, the Obama administration has unveiled a long-awaited rule that will make millions of Americans newly eligible for overtime pay. While some businesses welcome the measure, many argue that it will simply force...

WashClub Expands into San Francisco

WashClub, an on-demand laundry and drycleaning service, has opened its newest branch in San Francisco. Owned and operated by long-time San Francisco residents Pari and Revika Khosla, WashClub San Francisco's services are available via the WashClub mobile app or on the...

Deadlocked Supreme Court Blocks Immigration Plan

The Supreme Court recently blocked President Obama's effort to protect more than four million undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation, deadlocking 4-4 over a plan that had divided much of the nation. The tie vote leaves intact lower federal court...

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...

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