Longtime Laundromat Owner on 23 Years of Service, Challenges, Community Impact

For more than two decades, Lee Ann Geurts has been a steady force in her Brooklyn Park community in Minnesota, running three laundromats that have become known not just for clean clothes, but for connection, comfort, and care. What began as a business venture for her...

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...

PlanetLaundry Podcast

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Crunching the Numbers (Part 1)

Crunching the Numbers (Part 1)

A Look at Some of the Operational Metrics and Key Data Owners Should Be Monitoring to Keep Their Laundromats on Track for Success How’s business these days? Pretty good? Flat? Booming? Maybe improving a little since the pandemic? If you’re not really quite sure how to...

Going Digital

Going Digital

Make 2022 the Year You Upgrade Your Laundromat’s Interior Signage We’ve all seem them. They’re at the mall, our local fast-food restaurants and a wide variety of other businesses we all frequent. I’m talking about digital signage. And, if it’s good enough for the...

Build Your Network (Part 2)

Build Your Network (Part 2)

Don’t Neglect This Key Investment in the Future of Your Business [This is the second of a two-part feature article. You can read Part One here.] Hopefully, Part One of this article opened your eyes to the value of networking. Now, let me share a few tips for...

Headlines

SBA Releases New Lending Data

The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy recently released its “Small Business Lending in the United States, 2020” report, which shows that small business loans (those below $1 million) increased by nearly 40 percent from 2019 to 2020, largely due to...

Worker Classification Rule Under Review

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is in the process of reviewing a proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division to rewrite how workers should be classified as independent contractors. The draft proposed rule, “Employee or...

EEOC Updates COVID Guidance

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has updated its guidance across several different areas relating to COVID-19 and the workplace, including when employees can be required to undergo COVID-19 testing, reasonable accommodations, and parameters around mandatory...

LIG Health and Wellness Roundup

The Coin Laundry Association works with LIG Solutions to provide CLA members with health care insurance, as well as prescription drug services. Below are some articles LIG has provided to help expand your health and wellness awareness, and to learn about new health...

You’re Not Delivering Pizza

Three Standard Operating Procedures Your Delivery Drivers Need to Know Most mistakes in the laundromat are relatively easy to fix. However, mistakes in the delivery van can be devastating. Delivering laundry is different from delivering pizza. An Uber driver is not...

P&G, Supermarket Chain Partner in Flood Relief Effort

Procter & Gamble and supermarket chain Food City recently teamed up – through the Tide Loads of Hope mobile laundromat – to help provide clean clothes and some needed relief to those affected by the recent flooding in southwest Virginia. “During times of disaster,...

LaundroLab to Add Boston Location

Laundromat franchise LaundroLab is set to launch its first location in Boston, spearheaded by local money manager Bill Shean. After more than 30 years as a professional money manager, Shean decided it was time for a career change. “I think it’s interesting to do...

HappyNest Expands Commercial Business

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest recently expanded its commercial laundry services in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Colorado, with further expansion planned in the coming months. In addition, the company now offers a per-bag pricing model...

KioSoft Names CTO

KioSoft has appointed Charlie Lim as its new chief technology officer. Lim has more than 20 years of experience in driving cross-functional global programs, international partnerships, technology investments and initiatives. In his new role, he will oversee KioSoft’s...

Kentucky Church Offers Free Laundry Service

Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief is operating a free laundry service for Marion residents from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily throughout the month of July, to help with water conservation efforts in the area. A mobile laundry trailer is located at the Fredonia First Baptist...

Tennessee Laundromat, Local Cafe Team Up for Food Drive

Cycle Laundromat in Clarksville, Tenn., will team up with Manna Cafe to host a food drive on August 9-11. The Cycle Laundromat team will host the food drive to give back to the community they serve. Those interested in participating can bring in at least four cans of...

HappyNest Adds Second Partner in Charlotte Market

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has added Sunshine Laundromat as its second laundromat partner in Charlotte, N.C. As a result, HappyNest’s services are now available to residents and businesses in Cornelius, Davidson and Huntersville, as well as...

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September Magazine Issue

This Month's Issue

 

  • Connecting, Learning, Advocating: CLA Maximizes Impact at Clean Show 2025

  • Member Spotlight: Finding a Niche in the Laundromat Industry

  • PlanetLaundry Podcast: Turning Setbacks into Success: Saichelle McNeill’s Journey

  • A Laundromat With Heart: Inside Cherry Drive’s Customer-First Approach

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Industry News

Curbside Laundries Offers Laundromat Tours

Curbside Laundries is now offering tours of its own Super Suds laundromat in Long Beach, Calif., to store owners who use the company’s software. Super Suds is a laundromat business owned by the founders of Curbside Laundries. The tour provides an opportunity for...

New Financing Service Focuses on Quick Approvals

Clean Laundry Funding has announced the launch of its new financing service for commercial laundry investors and distributors. The company said it plans to offer a fresh take on financing that delivers express approvals and hands-on customer support to help laundry...

Speed Queen Announces Spring Shows

Alliance Laundry Systems Distribution West Region (previously PWS) will host spring shows in March at its three California locations. The shows are geared toward current and prospective laundromat owners considering equipment replacement or expanding to new locations....

Industry Mourns Bo Fosaaen

Industry veteran Knute Arthur “Bo” Fosaaen Jr. recently passed away at the age of 76. Born in California, Fosaaen’s family moved to Jacksonville, Fla., when Bo was just 3 years old. The oldest of nine children, Fosaaen served in the Florida National Guard after high...

CLA Promotes Hastings

The Coin Laundry Association has named Katherine Hastings the organization’s administrative and membership coordinator. Hastings, who joined CLA in 1997, is the association’s longest-standing employee, other than President/CEO Brian Wallace. During her tenure,...

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Risky Business

Although Biohazard Laundry Poses Some Obvious Challenges, With the Proper Procedures in Place, It Can Become a Profitable Segment of Your Full-Service Laundry Operation One of the biggest decisions you’ll need to make with regard to your wash-dry-fold and...

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The Business Mind

Master Your Message

Master Your Message

Proven Principles to Help You Craft More Impactful Advertising Advertising has one purpose and one purpose only – to affect someone’s behavior. You want consumers to try something different. More specifically, you want them to switch from their current laundromat to...

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Wi-Fi? Why Not?

As soon as the technology became available, we began offering Wi-Fi access in all of our laundry locations. And, as pricing within the marketplace has become more attractive, we have proportionally increased the speed of our Wi-Fi to accommodate the greatly increased...

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