Robert J. Renteria
February 15, 2012
CHICAGO — It brings me great pain to witness landlords choking their tenants with escalating rents and offering no relief during these tough times.
I have...
Howard Scott
February 8, 2012
PEMBROKE, Mass. — Let’s examine a delicate subject: the bathroom for customers in your store(s). You have four choices. You can have no public restroom, and...
Howard Scott
February 7, 2012
PEMBROKE, Mass. — Let’s examine a delicate subject: the bathroom for customers in your store(s). You have four choices. You can have no public restroom, and...
Robert J. Renteria
January 4, 2012
CHICAGO — The cost of iron for new products is going up dramatically. Meanwhile, increasing utilities cost and escalating rent are eating up laundry profits.
I...
Howard Scott
January 3, 2012
PEMBROKE, Mass. — Tax time is here again. You know the drill. You gather up all your paperwork, ledgers, computer reports, and the like, and drop them off at your...
Bruce Beggs
December 27, 2011
CHICAGO — The general structure of chairs and tables typically found in coin laundries today really hasn’t changed much in recent years, but the palette of...
Bruce Beggs
December 22, 2011
CHICAGO — You’ve come to a point where you’re considering opening a new coin laundry. But should you build it from the ground up, or should you look at...
Bruce Beggs
December 21, 2011
CHICAGO — You’ve come to a point where you’re considering opening a new coin laundry. But should you build it from the ground up, or should you look at...
Howard Scott
November 8, 2011
MARFA, Texas — A well-known business strategy is to run two businesses under one roof, share the overhead, and mingle the clientele. Perhaps the best example of this...
Howard Scott
November 7, 2011
MARFA, Texas — A well-known business strategy is to run two businesses under one roof, share the overhead, and mingle the clientele. Perhaps the best example of this...
Robert J. Renteria
September 29, 2011
CHICAGO — Over the past year, I have seen more born-again laundries than ever before. The banks are leveraging—or, should I say, overleveraging—the...
Howard Scott
September 15, 2011
PEMBROKE, Mass. — At almost every Laundromat I stop at these days, I hear roughly the same thing: “These are tough times. The country has 12% unemployment....
Bruce Beggs
September 6, 2011
CHICAGO — Making the decision to shift your store’s payment system from coin to cashless, or to a hybrid, can require a great deal of research and planning....
Bruce Beggs
September 5, 2011
CHICAGO — Making the decision to shift your store’s payment system from coin to cashless, or to a hybrid, can require a great deal of research and planning....
Bruce Beggs
August 30, 2011
CHICAGO — Making the decision to shift your store’s payment system from coin to cashless, or to a hybrid, can require a great deal of research and planning....
Bruce Beggs
August 29, 2011
CHICAGO — Making the decision to shift your store’s payment system from coin to cashless, or to a hybrid, can require a great deal of research and planning....
Robert J. Renteria
August 28, 2011
CHICAGO — “You got the best deal ever.”
The new buyer told me that was the seller’s comment when they closed the deal and began to walk away from...
Howard Scott
August 23, 2011
PEMBROKE, Mass. — I recently spent time at a Laundromat and observed these dynamics. The wash/dry/fold person was going about her task as if in a trance. Every so...
J.D. Dixon
August 17, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s no secret that millions of people, and an increasing number of businesses, interact on social media sites on a daily basis, sharing...
J.D. Dixon
August 16, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s no secret that millions of people, and an increasing number of businesses, interact on social media sites on a daily basis, sharing...
Howard Scott
July 14, 2011
PEMBROKE, Mass. — “Why should I spend money on an identity when I spell out exactly what we are?”
That’s the question one store owner asks as he...
Howard Scott
June 21, 2011
CHICAGO — An American Coin-Op columnist recently suggested that buying an existing business is always the way to go. “Why would anyone want to reinvent the...
Paul Partyka
May 22, 2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Randy and Tami Fett own four self-service laundries in the St. Paul, Minn., area. Like others, Randy was involved in a variety of businesses before...
Paul Partyka
May 17, 2011
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Randy and Tami Fett own four self-service laundries in the St. Paul, Minn., area. Like others, Randy was involved in a variety of businesses before...
Robert J. Renteria
May 16, 2011
CHICAGO — During the past several years, our industry, like other industries, has been affected by financial problems. However, there appears to be light at the end of...
