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...

Startup to Scale

How Western State Design Has Been Helping Laundry Businesses Thrive for More Than 50 Years   For more than five decades, Western State Design has been a leading provider of turnkey laundry solutions across the vended, on-premises, and commercial/industrial markets....

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Serving in Uncertain Times

Serving in Uncertain Times

The Laundry Doctor Shares His Plan of Attack During the COVID-19 Outbreak What we’re all going through right now with the COVID-19 pandemic is truly a once-in-a-lifetime event. It’s a test of who we are as people – and what we are as a civilization. As laundry owners,...

Marketing During Times of Crisis

Marketing During Times of Crisis

Some Promotional Do’s, Don’ts and Considerations as We All Try to Navigate the COVID-19 Crisis It’s easy to get downhearted about the state of the world in the middle of COVID-19’s madness. With social distancing measures, self-quarantines in place and a heightened...

Headlines

Alliance Names GM of North America Trade/OPL Segment

Alliance Laundry Systems recently appointed Eric Meyers as its new general manager responsible for overseeing the company’s North America trade/on-premises laundry segment. In a recent reorganization, the company combined the two segments under one leader. “Eric’s...

Mr Jeff Opens Second Pickup/Delivery Hub in Brooklyn

Mr Jeff, an international laundry service franchise, has opened its second U.S. flagship hub inside an existing Clean Rite laundromat location in Brooklyn, N.Y. The opening of this flagship Mr Jeff hub comes on the heels of an announcement last May that Mr Jeff has...

HappyNest Expands Footprint in Texas

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has continued its growth in Texas, now available in Dallas and many areas within Collin County – through its new laundromat partner, Coin Laundry Co. The McKinney-based laundry facility serves customers in Garland,...

Business Bio: Alligator Laundry

Bruce Bitman Alligator Laundry Long Beach, Calif. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Bitman has been in the laundromat industry for 11 years. Prior to that, he was in the vending machine business. Store Opening January 5, 2021 Business Hours 6:00 a.m. to 11:00...

What Laundry Customers Want: Six Keys To Building Your Business

There are six main elements that a new laundromat business should possess to attract and retain customers. They are: 1. Parking. Parking is critically important to the success of a self-service laundry. If your parking lot is too small with respect to the size of your...

PPP Forgiveness Portal Now Open

The U.S. Small Business Administration has opened a new application portal for direct Paycheck Protection Program forgiveness: https://directforgiveness.sba.gov/requests/borrower/login/?next=/. This portal allows borrowers to apply for forgiveness directly with the...

Wash-Dry-Fold POS Adds Software Developer

Wash-Dry-Fold POS has added Sean Henderson to its software development team. Henderson formerly served as operations manager for Liberty Laundry, his family’s chain of laundromats located in northeastern Oklahoma. “Being the operations manager at Liberty Laundry also...

CLA at 60: Anniversary Accolades

In the run-up to its 60th anniversary, the Coin Laundry Association's offices were flooded with accolades from around the industry – some thanking the CLA for its long-standing efforts on behalf of laundromat owners, some offering advice for the organization’s next 60...

Wash with Wally: Cleaning White Dress Shirts

I recently washed and dried a load of white dress shirts. When these shirts came out of the washer, they were bright white. However, after drying them, they had all turned yellow. I’ve never had this problem before. What can I do to prevent this from reoccurring? And...

Business Bio: Laundry 24 / 24 Fitness

Bryan J. Donegan Laundry 24 / 24 Fitness Evans Mills, N.Y. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… “I started out in the U.S. Marine Corps as an intelligence specialist with the 1st Battalion 9th Marines, including one tour in Afghanistan,” Donegan said. “After my...

HappyNest Adds New Illinois Partner

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest is now available in Lake County, Ill., through its new laundromat partner, Ellie’s 24 Hour Spin n’ Wash. The facility, based in Waukegan, serves customers in many areas north of Chicago – from Winthrop Harbor and Zion, to...

Making a Connection, Part 2

From 3G to 4G to 5G and Beyond: How Cellular Connectivity is Helping to Power Today’s Laundromat Industry [This is the second in a two-part series on internet connectivity options for laundromats. The first part appeared in the August issue of PlanetLaundry magazine,...

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Mr Jeff Laundry Franchise Expands Internationally

Spanish startup Jeff has announced plans to open 10 new Mr Jeff laundry service franchises in the Philippines in 2022. “We feel very confident about the rest of 2022, and we are already helping our partner entrepreneurs to find the best locations and build their shops...

LG, Diversey Announce Partnership

Diversey Europe Operations B.V. – a provider of hygiene, infection prevention and cleaning solutions – and LG Electronics have entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for LG’s commercial washers and dryers in the U.K. and Ireland markets. “This partnership...

HappyNest Expands Within Denver Market

Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded its availability to northeast Denver through its new partner, Crystal Dry Cleaners & Laundry. Based in Wheat Ridge, the facility serves local residents and businesses in Denver and Aurora. “We have an...

GNA Grows Sales Team

Girbau North America has appointed Muzi Sitshela to the position of inside sales associate. In his new role, Sitshela interfaces with GNA staff, distributors and customers on a daily basis; manages the company’s lead qualification process; and handles inside sales and...

EVI to Acquire K&B Laundry Service

EVI Industries Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire K&B Laundry Service, a provider of installation and maintenance services to the industrial and on-premises laundry segments based in North Carolina. With this acquisition, EVI will add 15...

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Reaching the ‘Finish’ Line

Reaching the ‘Finish’ Line

Originally posted -Mar 01, 2013 There are several ways to bridge the gap between doing "traditional" wash-dry-fold at your store and taking it a step further to offer your customers a more finished laundry product. A lot of laundry owners have bridged that gap by...

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The Business Mind

Unchained!

Remove the Unrealistic Limits on Your Business and Professional Goals"Everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone." – Robert Allen, American authorNearly all of the hundreds of laundry owners I have consulted with over the years have expressed to me the...

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Investing in Customer Service Yields Real Value

"The customer is always right." - Marshall Field When I cite the quote above about the customer always being right, you might be quick to caution "you haven't been to my laundromat!"Well, I see this well-worn adage as aspirational, if not requiring some suspension of...

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