PlanetLaundry Podcast
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PlanetLaundry is the official publication of CLA and is trusted by thousands of laundry professionals to deliver the latest news and industry-specific topics.
Creating a Winning Team
Staffing Your Brand New Vended Laundry Business As laundry owners, we live and die by “The Rule of 10." In other words, a new customer’s very first impression of your store occurs in the first 10 feet, the first 10 seconds and the first 10 words. You’ve just designed...
Business Bio: Green Bay Express Laundry
Steve Dietzen Green Bay Express Laundry Green Bay, Wis. Before Getting into the Laundry Business… Steve also owns and operates three pawn shops in Wisconsin. Store Opening February 7, 2018 Business Hours 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Staff Four part-time attendants...
Open for Business
For the grand opening of its Canadian flagship location, Lululemon – the popular yoga-inspired athletic apparel company – offered free merchandise to the first 30 people to run naked through its new retail outlet. As you can imagine, the media was all over this...
Headlines
GNA Partners with Commercial Laundries of West Florida
Girbau North America has partnered with Commercial Laundries of West Florida Inc., a full-service laundry equipment distributor in Tampa, Fla. As a result, Commercial Laundries now provides Continental Girbau vended laundry equipment and Express Laundry Center turnkey...
HappyNest Launches New Location in Houston
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into the Houston market. “HappyNest has made great strides in launching partners east of the Mississippi, and we were ready to move west and Houston is a prime market for our service,” said HappyNest founder...
Wash with Wally: Preventing Dryer Fires
I own three self-service laundries, and I’ve been plagued with dryer fires. I have the ductwork cleaned every three years. What can I do to prevent these fires? What am I missing? One of the problems I notice in a lot of laundries is that the ductwork has been...
Looking Forward by Looking Back
Why Marketing Your Laundry Business is Only Going to Get Better The world has changed quite a bit over the last three decades. Heck, it has changed a lot just in 2020 alone. But let’s not go into that here. If you were to take a time machine back to 1990, you wouldn’t...
Early-Learning Advocates, Business Leaders to Convene at LaundryCares Literacy Summit
The LaundryCares Foundation and Too Small to Fail, the early childhood initiative of the Clinton Foundation, will kick off the 3rd annual LaundryCares Literacy Summit on September 15. This year’s virtual summit will take part in three sessions that will explore the...
CSC ServiceWorks Names New C-Level Executives
CSC ServiceWorks Inc. – a provider of commercial laundry solutions and air vending services, headquartered in Plainview, N.Y. – has announced that Lonny Warner has joined the organization’s executive leadership team as chief operating officer. In this position, Warner...
Trends Shaping the ‘New Normal’
A Look at Tomorrow’s Laundromat Industry Veteran store owner John Henderson is not normally at a loss for words, especially when it comes to talking about the laundromat industry – one in which his family-operated chain has thrived for many years. But, then again,...
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” –...
The Formula for Powerful Advertising
Don’t Overlook the Impact of Human Psychology on the Success of Your Promotional Campaigns I’m a firm believer that advertising is simply applied psychology using print, television, radio or any other media platform the advertiser so chooses. Given that, it stands to...
WaveMAX Laundry Expands Footprint in Phoenix Market
WaveMAX Laundry, headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., recently announced that it has signed agreements to bring two new locations to the Arizona cities of Scottsdale and Mesa by the first quarter of next year. In addition, the company – which has already opened three...
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 10: The Business of Vacation
In this episode laundromat owner Daniel Sofranko, who operates Perfect Wash Express Laundry Center in Huntington Beach, Calif., discusses how he has leveraged the booming tourism industry of his beachfront marketplace to create a successful and profitable niche for...
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 9: The Formula for Powerful Advertising
In this episode we will hear PlanetLaundry columnist Stephen Bean place advertising in the context of applied psychology to demonstrate how our messaging can influence the human mind to deliver exceptional results. You can read the full column entitled “The Formula...
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This Month's Issue
- Fast Forward: Industry Insiders Review the Past Year – And Unveil the Key Factors That Likely Will Shape the Laundromat Business in 2025
- Business Profile: The Community-Driven Mission Behind Wash Bar Laundromats
- Company Close-Up: Southeastern Laundry Equipment Sales Sets the Standard for Industry Excellence and Innovation
- Women in Vended Laundry: An Interview with Samantha Peters of Advanced Laundry Systems
- And More…
THE LATEST ON LAUNDROMATS
Industry News
Industry Mourns the Loss of Kenneth Cherry
Laundromat industry pioneer Kenneth Cherry passed away on March 3 at the age of 91. A long-time resident of Columbia, Tenn., Mr. Cherry was born in Clay County, Tenn., and raised on his family’s farm. After graduating from the University of Tennessee, he taught school...
Deadline Looming for California Retirement Savings Plan
According to the latest numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 45 percent of employers with fewer than 100 employees don’t offer a retirement plan. California is one state looking to bridge that gap with a state-sponsored IRA savings plan called CalSavers....
NFIB: Small-Business Owners Report Inflation as Top Issue
Last month, the National Federation of Independent Business’ Optimism Index decreased by 1.4 points to 95.7, the second consecutive month below the 48-year average of 98. Twenty-six percent of owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem in...
Idaho Laundry Business Focuses on Childhood Literacy
General Laundry Co. in Victor, Idaho, has partnered with the Valley of the Tetons Library to install a LaundryCares’ Family Read, Play & Learn Center within the laundromat. In addition to a wide selection of quality children’s books, the literacy-rich space...
Mr Jeff Opens Franchise in Miami Market
Home-delivery laundry service Mr Jeff opened its first Florida location in Coral Gables on March 16. The new Mr Jeff location is owned and operated by local entrepreneur and Miami resident Sergio Aguirre. “After learning Mr Jeff was expanding into the United States, I...
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Columns
The Laundry Doctor
After Disaster Strikes
Originally posted - Oct 05, 2012 Previously, we looked at how fire and water garment restoration can be a profitable niche for some coin laundry owners – as well as how to potentially land this type of work. Now, let's assume that the restoration business has started...
The Business Mind
The Power of Optimism
11 Strategic Steps for Developing a More Positive Outlook on Life and Business Permit me to set the stage for this article with a fascinating true story… The winters in Michigan can be frigid – and the winter of 1994 was no exception. As a result, Dale...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Oil-Based vs. Water-Based Stains, Uniform Rental and More…
Is there a way of determining whether a stain is oil-based or water-based before I launder the garment? The only way you can determine that is by laundering both types of stains year after year. Visually, there is no way to tell the difference. Some water-based stains...
Viewpoint
Clean 2015 Attendees ‘Flip’ for Store Renovation Educational Session
Coin Laundry Association President and CEO Brian Wallace welcomed nearly 350 attendees to the organization's first educational seminar of Clean 2015 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Dubbed "Flip My Laundry," the session was an in-depth look at three...
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