Designing for Success

Winning Ideas for Your Next Laundromat Design, Layout, or Remodeling Project Designing or remodeling a laundromat requires careful planning and strategic decision-making to create a space that is both functional and inviting. A well-designed laundromat not only...

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,...

Marketing Through Design

How a Well-Planned Laundromat Boosts Customer Engagement and Loyalty I have the exciting opportunity to sit on the board of a concert venue, and we spend a lot of time talking about the overall experience for attendees and the artists. Every detail matters – where the...

PayRange Acquires Laundry Operating System Turns

PayRange, a provider of mobile payment solutions for unattended retail, has acquired laundromat operating system Turns. The PayRange platform, now combined with Turns’ solution for full-service laundromats, provides single-store and multi-location laundry owners with...

PlanetLaundry Podcast

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The Business of Vacation

The Business of Vacation

Could Vacation Rental Laundry Be a Profitable Niche for Your Operation? While on vacation with my parents as kid and then later as a teen, I would, on occasion, look around me and take notice of all the various people who were involved in our “vacation experience” –...

All Systems Go

All Systems Go

How to Keep Your Laundromat’s HVAC Units Running as Smoothly and Efficiently as Possible Hopefully, by now any lingering heat from summer has passed and the cooler weather of fall is upon us. I say “hopefully,” because the summer heat can create a number of challenges...

The Next Chapter

The Next Chapter

Laundry Industry Veteran Stephen Gramaglia Discusses His New Life as a First-Time Store Owner After more than 20 years of helping would-be laundromat owners finance their entrepreneurial dreams, Stephen Gramaglia has opened his own vended laundry business – CleanFresh...

Headlines

Delivering the Goods (Part 2)

Marketing and Growing Your Laundry Business’ Pickup-and-Delivery Service [This is the second of a two-part feature. You can read Part One here.] Clearly, you will face obstacles as you promote and begin to grow your residential pickup-and-delivery business, especially...

Leading Regulatory Issues Facing Businesses in 2022

The pandemic has reshaped the regulatory landscape and created uncertainty for businesses, especially around compliance. As a result, HR and payroll services provider Paychex has identified some of the top regulatory challenges businesses may face in 2022: Workplace...

ACI Names Digital Communications Senior Director

The American Cleaning Institute – a trade association for the cleaning products supply chain, including laundry detergents – has promoted Jessica Ek to senior director of digital communications. Ek has been with ACI since 2018, previously serving as director of...

New Year Ushers in Higher Minimum Wages Across the Country

The new year brought pay hikes for hundreds of thousands of workers, with a record number of cities, counties and states raising their hourly wage minimums – many of them hitting or surpassing $15 an hour. On January 1, 2022, the minimum wage rose in 21 states and 35...

Alliance, Steelworkers Union Reach Contract Agreement

Alliance Laundry Systems and United Steelworkers Local 1327 have reached agreement on a new contract, which went into effect January 1, 2022. The new five-year agreement covers 1,750 hourly team members at the Ripon and Manitowoc, Wis., locations. It guarantees 2.5...

HappyNest Expands Footprint in North California Market

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has added new laundromat partner, Safi Laundry, to support the company’s efforts in San Jose, Calif. With this partnership, HappyNest is now serving Alviso, Milpitas, Santa Clara and several northern San Jose zip codes. In...

PlanetLaundry Podcast Episode 26: An Interview with Brian Brunckhorst

Welcome to the PlanetLaundry Podcast – brought to you by PlanetLaundry, the magazine of the Coin Laundry Association. In this episode, Coin Laundry Association President and CEO Brian Wallace chats with Brian Brunckhorst, owner of Advantage Laundry, a laundromat chain...

Delivering the Goods (Part 1)

Marketing and Growing Your Laundry Business’ Pickup-and-Delivery Service Three years ago, Peter Lowin was considering building a third laundromat in southern California. However, primarily due to the cost, he decided against opening that third store – instead opting...

Feeling Emotional (Part 2)

How to Use Emotional Intelligence to Better Manage Yourself and Your Laundry Business [This is the second of a two-part column. Part One can be read here.] While emotional skills may come more naturally to some due to their background and upbringing, there are ways...

LaundryCares Organizes Disaster-Relief Event in Tennessee

In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that recently swept through a large portion of Tennessee, the LaundryCares Foundation will hold a disaster-relief Free Laundry Day event from noon until 8:00 p.m. on January 4 at Martin Laundry in Martin, Tenn. During this...

CCI, Wash-Dry-Fold POS Announce Payment Integration

Laundromat point-of-sale systems provider Wash-Dry-Fold POS and Card Concepts Inc., a laundromat payment systems company, have teamed up to provide store owners with integration of wash-dry-fold and self-service payment. “CCI has always been known as a...

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This Month's Issue

 

  • Designing for Success: Winning Ideas for Your Next Laundromat Design, Layout, or Remodeling Project
  • Guest Feature: Five Lessons I Learned from Selling My Laundry Business
  • Digital Marketing: A Well-Planned Laundromat Can Boost Customer Engagement and Loyalty
  • Business Profile: How Chicago’s Wash Smart Chain is Redefining the Laundry Experience
  • And More…

THE LATEST ON LAUNDROMATS

Industry News

Aaxon Honors Industry Veteran Luis Bello

Aaxon Laundry Systems recently recognized route collector Luis Bello for 25 years with the company. Bello, who joined Aaxon in 1997, was honored for his vast technical knowledge, dedication and hard work. “I have worked with Luis Bello since the day I joined the...

EVI Completes Two Distributor Acquisitions

EVI Industries Inc. has completed the previously announced acquisitions of K&B Laundry Service LLC, Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Aldrich Clean-Tech Equipment Corp., Worcester, Mass. K&B is a provider of installation and maintenance services to the industrial and...

Oxwash Raises Nearly $12 Million for On-Demand Laundry Service

Oxwash, a U.K.-based on-demand laundry startup, has raised £10 million (or approximately $11.5 million USD) from backers, including a Twitter co-founder. Founded by Kyle Grant, a former NASA scientist, and Tom de Wilton, Oxwash reported that it is developing a more...

CLA Names New, Re-Elected Members to 2023 Board of Directors

The Coin Laundry Association has announced five re-elected and one newly elected Board members, who will round out the organization’s 2023 Board of Directors. The Board election was ratified last month during the CLA’s annual meeting at the Clean Show in Atlanta. CLA...

Healthcare Group Offers Outreach at Philadelphia Laundromats

Philadelphia-based managed care organization Health Partners Plans is teaming up with Fabric Health for outreach at five laundromats in the city, according to a recent Philadelphia Business Journal report. Fabric Health will help Health Partners Plans members update...

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Columns

The Laundry Doctor

Making the Call

How to Prepare for Sales Calls with Potential Commercial Clients In my last column, I discussed some of the profitable niches available to self-service laundry owners within the vast realm of commercial laundry accounts. This time, I'd like to follow up on that...

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The Business Mind

True Enough!

Seven Business (and Non-Business) Truisms That Can Be Applied Directly to Your Laundry Operation Virtually everyone you run into knows something you don’t. Think about that for a moment. With more than 300 million people in the United States, there are literally...

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Wash With Wally

Viewpoint

Excellence in Laundry: Silent Auction

The 2016 Excellence in Laundry Conference, to be held at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa in southern California, will feature a silent auction from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on May 18. This auction will serve to benefit the Coin Laundry Association's LaundryCares...

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