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The New ABCs of Worker Classification
Are Your Workers ‘Employees’ or ‘Independent Contractors?’ In 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles in which a new standard – commonly referred to as the “ABC Test” – will be used to...

Building a Winning Team
Finding, Attracting and Retaining Great Employees The numbers are sobering, if not downright depressing. Studies suggest that the annual turnover rate for hourly employees hovers around 50 percent. What’s more, these figures vary broadly by industry and by business....

Laundries Connecting Communities
Celebrating the Work of the LaundryCares Foundation In essence, it all began with Hurricane Katrina. “For a while, I and many of my peers in the business felt an appreciation and a gratitude for the opportunities we’d all enjoyed and the livelihoods that had been...
Headlines
Are You Covered? 10 Questions About Workers’ Comp
It’s important to understand workers’ compensation laws in your state, as both an employer and an employee. Workers’ compensation insurance can help protect your business and employees in the event of falling on ice, suffering injuries while moving furniture in the...
‘Making a Bouquet’
Promoting Your Laundromat in Today’s Culturally and Generationally Diverse Marketplace During the last 20 years, the changes that have occurred – from both technological and cultural/social standpoints – have been profound. And these changes have had a major impact on...
Financial Assistance Now Available to Renters
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is currently working with the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to help...
Free Equipment for Your Laundromat!
Well, Not Quite… But Here’s a Not-So-Secret Formula That Will Make It Almost Seem Like Those New Washers and Dryers Came Free of Charge What if I told you I had the secret to getting brand new commercial washers and dryers for your laundromat? Would you be interested?...
GNA Appoints Digital Marketing Manager
Girbau North America has named Melissa Kuhn its new digital marketing manager. Kuhn, who has more than nine years of marketing and digital marketing experience, will be responsible for planning and executing the company’s digital marketing and advertising strategies...
CleanCloud, SpyderWash Announce Payments Integration
CleanCloud, a laundromat point of sales system, and Setomatic Systems-SpyderWash, a supplier of laundry payment systems since 1968, recently announced a new cross-platform integration. This integration of SpyderWash into CleanCloud will provide operators with...
Mr Jeff Names Managing Director for U.S. Market
Mr Jeff, a laundry home delivery franchise, has named Peter Stern the company’s new managing director in the United States. With more than 20 years of experience in the laundromat industry, Stern will play a critical role in helping Mr Jeff reach its goal of becoming...
LaundryCares to Host 4th Annual Literacy Summit
The LaundryCares Foundation and the Laundry Literacy Coalition, including Too Small to Fail, have announced that the 4th annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit will be held September 21, 23 and 28. This free, three-day, virtual series will focus on bringing the...
PlanetLaundry Podcast Episode 22: An Interview with Daniel Sofranko
Welcome to the PlanetLaundry Podcast – brought to you by PlanetLaundry, the magazine of the Coin Laundry Association. In this episode PlanetLaundry Editor Bob Nieman chats with Daniel Sofranko, the owner of Perfect Wash – Express Laundry Center, located in Huntington...
Making Laundry Cool
A Look at Seven of the Most Interesting Laundromats in America Going to the laundromat to do the week’s laundry can be a rather dull and tedious chore. No doubt about it. Then again, who says laundromats can’t be cool and fun? Across the U.S., creative store owners...
Messe Frankfurt Cancels Texcare International 2021
Messe Frankfurt has announced the cancellation of Texcare International 2021, which was scheduled for November 27 through December 1, 2021, in Frankfurt, Germany. Growing uncertainty over the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic led a number of the laundry and...
Health and Wellness Tips from CLA’s Health Insurance Provider
The Coin Laundry Association, in collaboration with LIG Solutions, offers various health insurance programs, including a new prescription drug benefit, for CLA members, as well as their families and employees. LIG wants you and your family to stay healthy this fall,...
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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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Industry News
LaundryCares Hosts ‘Lunch & Learn’ in Atlanta
On the first day of Clean 2022 in Atlanta, the LaundryCares Foundation hosted a free luncheon, on the heels of its popular morning educational session on how to leverage community engagement for social impact and profit. Attendees to this luncheon event further...
Clean 2022: Leveraging Community Engagement for Social Impact
Laundromats have a unique reach into under-resourced communities and can upcycle their facilities with dedicated learning spaces, as well as by hosting free laundry events, among other initiatives. The Coin Laundry Association’s second educational session on the first...
Clean 2022: CLA Explores the ‘Next Generation’ of Laundromats
CLA Director of Membership and Education Danielle Bauer welcomed nearly 600 attendees to the organization’s first educational seminar of Clean 2022 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. With laundromats designated as an “essential business,” the industry...
LaundryCares Hosts Free Laundry Day in Atlanta
On the day before Clean 2022, the Coin Laundry Association’s LaundryCares Foundation hosted a free laundry day in Atlanta. This event was held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at five laundry locations in and around the show’s host city: Bustin Suds Laundromat, Atlanta...
Clean 2022: A Southern Accent
An Overview of What the Trade Show’s Host City Offers Its Visitors After a three-year, COVID-induced hiatus, the laundry industry’s largest trade show and convention is back. The Clean Show is returning to the industry’s center stage for the first time since 2019 –...
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The Laundry Doctor
Tiering Up
Originally posted - Aug 02, 2013 Over the last decade, every major manufacturer has introduced the ability to offer multiple pricing levels on their washers. For the most part, this technological development has been driven by the demand of self-service laundry owners...
The Business Mind
Back by Popular Demand
Retention Marketing Methods Will Help Keep Your Current Customers Returning Again and Again"Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again" – Walt DisneyHaving authored numerous articles on the technicalities of – and necessity for – attracting new...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Calculating Folding Space, Competing for Employees, More…
Is there some formula or rule of thumb that would guide me as far as how much folding space I should provide for my customers? According to most vended laundry industry data, three square feet of folding space for every dryer pocket in your facility is considered to...
Viewpoint
One Woman’s Laundromat Journey
Sometimes, it's about being in the right place at the right time. I grew up in Foster City, Calif. And my favorite restaurant was in a local shopping center there, which was located adjacent to a rundown laundromat. In 1996, through the grapevine, I discovered that...
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