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Building Your Dream Laundromat
What to Consider When Constructing Your First Laundry Business The key to getting through the buildout or construction phase of your vended laundry project can be quite simple. Just hire an experienced, licensed general contractor who already has a couple of...
Buyer Beware
Eight Best Practices to Follow When Buying a Property As the old saying goes, "Let the buyer beware." And never are those words more accurate then when purchasing a property to be used for a vended laundry business – whether you're looking to buy an existing store or...
Before Signing Your Laundry Lease…
Sitting Down to the Negotiation Table for the First Time? Here’s What You Need to Know First things first… with respect to your laundry lease, the best advice I can offer is be sure you have an experienced commercial real estate attorney by your side to help navigate...
Headlines
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...
The Lifeblood of Your Laundromat
A Look at the Current Utilities Markets – And What Laundry Owners Are Doing to Control Costs Natural gas futures collapsed to a 25-year low below $1.50 per MMBtu in late June, due in part to an ongoing supply glut made worse by the coronavirus-induced drop off in...
Wash with Wally: Ozone Injection vs. COVID-19
My laundromat has two banks of washers – for a total of 16 machines – that feature ozone injection. I was wondering if ozone is effective at killing the COVID-19 virus. If so, I will definitely want to begin extensively promoting and advertising this feature of my...
Laundrylux Launches Online Store
Laundrylux recently announced the launch of its new online store at shop.laundrylux.com. “I’m proud that Laundrylux is a company putting the needs of its customers first,” said President Cody Milch. “With this new online store, we can meet the changing demands of the...
U.S. Mint Reacts to Coin Shortage, Asks for Consumers’ Help
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the disruption of the supply channels of circulating coinage – the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters that the U.S. businesses and consumers use in their day-to-day transactions. “In normal circumstances, retail...
Sav-A-Day Announces Fall Open House
Sav-A-Day Laundry Machinery, headquartered in St. Louis, will hold its 61st annual open house sales event on October 12. The open house – scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. – will feature service schools throughout the day on washer-extractors and dryers. In...
Speed Queen Expands Hermes’ Sales Territory
Speed Queen has expanded the territory that is served by Hermes Commercial Laundry Equipment, headquartered in Bloomington, Ill. The distributor now serves customers in the Illinois counties of Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Grundy, Jo Daviess, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam,...
PlanetLaundry Podcast, Episode 7: Building a New Relationship with Consumers
In this episode, PlanetLaundry contributor Dennis Diaz shares his latest story entitled, Building a New Relationship with Consumers: Customer Service in Todays’ Turbulent, Information-Driven World. Dennis Diaz is a marketing expert and owner of Spynr, a digital...
Laundrylux Partners with Coin-O-Matic
Laundrylux recently announced a new distributor relationship with Coin-O-Matic – headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Alsip, Ill., and celebrating a century in business. “We’re excited to honor our 100-year anniversary in the laundry industry by providing a...
Understanding Our Economic Behavior
How Our Psychological Makeup Impacts Our Financial Decisions I’ve consulted with a great many laundromat owners over the years. And nearly all of them have been preoccupied with their financial decisions – either those that had been made in the past or those that the...
‘Adjusting Your Sails’
An Interview with Multi-Location Laundromat Owner and Serial Entrepreneur Daniel Marrazzo Daniel Marrazzo is a lifelong resident of Bucks County, Pa., who started his professional career in the construction industry, after graduating from Norwich University – The...
Building a New Relationship with Consumers
Customer Service in Today's Turbulent, Information-Driven World Let’s talk about where businesses are in the world right now. 2020 has been quite a year. And we’re only six months in, which makes everything that’s already happened seem just that much more dramatic....
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This Month's Issue
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Connecting, Learning, Advocating: CLA Maximizes Impact at Clean Show 2025
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Member Spotlight: Finding a Niche in the Laundromat Industry
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PlanetLaundry Podcast: Turning Setbacks into Success: Saichelle McNeill’s Journey
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A Laundromat With Heart: Inside Cherry Drive’s Customer-First Approach
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THE LATEST ON LAUNDROMATS
Industry News
Bronx Laundry to Unveil Children’s Learning Space, Announce Educational Programming
Clean Rite Center, located in New York City, is encouraging children to take home a free book as part of a nationwide movement to bring learning to local laundries. On April 2, the Bronx laundromat will unveil a new reading and learning space for children – featuring...
HappyNest Expands into Idaho
Laundry pickup-and-delivery service HappyNest has expanded into Idaho, through its new laundromat partner, Rave Laundry. The Boise-based facility is now providing PUD services to residents and businesses in Ada County, including Garden City. And, earlier this year,...
Clean Show Announces Upcoming Host Cities, Return to ‘Odd-Year’ Scheduling
The Clean Show has finalized the dates and locations for its next two upcoming editions. After Clean 2022 – which will run from July 30 through August 2 in Atlanta – the trade show and convention will return to its traditional schedule of being held during...
Mississippi City Works with Local Laundromats to Launch ‘Rinse & Read’ Program
In Petal, Miss., the city’s Cosmopolitan Club and its Excel by 5 group – a community-based certification designed to improve children’s overall well-being by age 5 – are providing one more way for children to get their hands on books… at the laundromat. This local...
Atlanta Laundromat Business Announces Grant Program
Multi-Store Operators Wade Williams and Yvette Morton Williams Create Marketing Grant to Help New Laundry Owners Succeed Wash & Spin Coin Laundry, based in Atlanta, has announced its Inspired To Grow Higher Award for 2022. The award features a $2,000 grant to be...
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The Laundry Doctor
The Laundry Doctor’s Inbox
Originally posted -Feb 01, 2013 Since I opened my coin laundry, and especially since I started writing for PlanetLaundry, I notice that the Laundry Doctor receives quite of bit of e-mail – from laundry owners and laundry "doers" alike – asking my advice on everything...
The Business Mind
When You Look at Your Business, What Do You See?
Maximize Profits by Changing the Way You Personally View Your Self-Service Laundry Operation As the story goes, two young salmon were swimming along one day when they were passed by a much older and far wiser fish coming from the opposite direction. The older fish...
Wash With Wally
Wash with Wally: Fighting Oil Stains, Operating a Delivery Service and More…
On occasion, I will receive drop-off laundry that has one or two pieces with oil stains. Is there anything available at the local supermarket or hardware store that I can use to remove these stains? If so, what is it, and how do you use it? There are a few products...
Viewpoint
Vital Signs
Neglect Your Store's Signage at Your Own Risk Because a laundromat is a self-service business, there is the tendency among some owners to have a "build-it-and-they-will-wash" attitude toward their stores. In other words, the focus is primarily on the equipment offered...
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