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| 06/30/2009 - CALIFORNIA LAUNDRIES MAY FACE MANDATORY WATER CONSERVATION
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| From Coin Laundry News, June, 2009
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California i... |
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| 06/30/2009 - Which Style of Washer Best Suits This Business?
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| From Coin Laundry News, June, 2009
In the late 1930s, shortly before the beginning of World... |
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| 06/30/2009 - A Brief History of Wascomat: How an Accident at Sea Changed the Laundry Business
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| From Coin Laundry News, June, 2009
In 1956, a young man with an engineering background and ... |
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| 06/30/2009 - Mice, Rats and Dragons, and Gunk too!
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| From Coin Laundry News, June, 2009
Has your attendant ever said that she thought that one o... |
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| 06/30/2009 - Some Simple Tips For: Salting Coin Boxes
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| From Coin Laundry News, June, 2009
Now and again this particular laundry owner had a sense ... |
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| 05/12/2009 - Why Are My Water Costs So High?
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| We can’t forget, nor overlook, the huge impact rising water costs have had on both coin and ca... |
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| 05/12/2009 - Simple Math Can Help Make Your Laundry a Success
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| Most successful coin and card operated laundry owners become sticklers about knowing what it costs t... |
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| 05/12/2009 - Some Simple Tips For: What You Need to Know About Water Heaters
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| Water heaters don’t technically have many moving parts, and yet may be one of the most complic... |
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| 04/06/2009 - Is it Time to Add Fluff n Fold?
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| The decision as to whether or not to offer Fluff & Fold, or drop off laundry or dry cleaning ser... |
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| 04/06/2009 - Contracts, Papers and Documents Laundry Owners Must Deal With
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| The owners and operators of coin and card operated laundries usually don’t become involved in ... |
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| 04/06/2009 - Getting Even With A greedy Landlord
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| The small neighborhood coin laundry was in a large city, and despite its size, did pretty well in ca... |
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| 02/12/2009 - CLA Going Green
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| The Coin Laundry Association (CLA) is welcoming the new year by going green. In 2009, CLA members wi... |
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| 02/12/2009 - About Your Laundry’s Insurance: Cautionary Tales
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| As we enter this new year and the feeling of nervousness that comes with it, it may be time to revie... |
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| 02/12/2009 - Key Protection is One Key to Success
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| The phone call wasn’t really all that -unusual. A Colorado man had bought a coin -laundry and ... |
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| 02/12/2009 - Some Simple Tips For: Easy Floor Care
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| The care and condition of the floor of a coin -laundry is so important to its success that it can no... |
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| 12/30/2008 - Problems Ahead for 2009?
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| 2009 is almost upon us, so it is not too early to make organizational and financial plans for the ne... |
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| 12/30/2008 - A Brief History of the Debate: Top Loaders vs. Front Loaders
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| During the coming New Year, the News begins a series of articles featuring -Histories of the compani... |
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| 12/30/2008 - In 2009 Costs Are Going Up! What Can You Do?
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| Whether your coin or card operated laundry is -making money or not, its costs still continue to rise... |
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| 12/30/2008 - Let’s Talk A Little About Fire Safety
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| There have been reports that a majority cause of fire damages in businesses are said to have origina... |
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| 12/30/2008 - State Sales Taxes Can Be a Problem
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| If you never intend on selling your coin laundry, pay no attention to this article. However, if a sa... |
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| 12/30/2008 - Some Simple Tips for Counting Coins (without a counter)
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| We originally ran this simple tip some years back, in 1997, and again in 2003. While many in our ind... |
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| 12/04/2008 - There is a Basic Value to Making Timely Refunds
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| Over the years most of the laundry operators that have discussed this topic with the News seem to re... |
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| 12/04/2008 - Does Owning Unattended Laundries Really Pay Off?
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| As the laundry industry began, just at the end of World War II, times were different. There was less... |
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| 12/04/2008 - Use a Cell Phone to Cut Expenses
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| Laundry owners speaking with the News bring up some interesting points illustrating how the industry... |
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| 12/04/2008 - Laundry Lighting Economics
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| Most coin laundry builders will tell you that somewhere between fifty and sixty -percent of the elec... |
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| 12/04/2008 - Let’s Talk Trash (Cans, That Is)
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| In some laundry designs they hide the trash receptacles in specially built cabinets. However, in mos... |
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| 12/04/2008 - Some Simple Tips For: Putting Yourself in the Right Kind of Rut
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| Usually when one finds themselves in a rut it’s considered a bad thing because it indicates be... |
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| 11/09/2008 - What Can the Web Do For Your Laundry Business?
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| In this, the last of our 3 part look at technology and how and where it fits in for the Card/Coin La... |
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| 11/09/2008 - Promotions & Economical Operation Can Combat Rising Costs
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| Whether a coin or card operated laundry is -making or losing money, its costs will continue to rise.... |
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| 11/09/2008 - Drop Off Services Take Little Room
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| This California laundry owner had been in the business for a long time. He had purchased the busines... |
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| 11/09/2008 - Laundry Left Over, and What to do With Them
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| In years long past, it was principally on Sunday morning that you’d find them. Now it’s ... |
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| 11/09/2008 - The Regular Care and Feeding of Older Water Heaters
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| In the Laundromat industry, older styles of water heater systems weren’t thought of as too tec... |
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| 11/09/2008 - Some Simple Tips for: Keeping Your Vendors Vending
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| The need to keep laundry vending machines in good working order will come as a surprise to many laun... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Counting and Accounting: Tech Tools for Your Money
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| Last month, we began a short series on technology and you, the laundry owner. The response has been ... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Water, Water, We’d Be Out of Business Without It
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| There’s was some well needed precipitation in some parts of the west earlier this year, while ... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Using Laundry Brokers is a Sensible Thing to do
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| Based on the number of phone calls we receive on the subject, there is still a lot of interest in ge... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Remembering Fire Extinguishers: Be Sure to Keep One Handy
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| Laundry owners often feel that having a fire extinguisher is a pain, because it is so hard to keep t... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Let’s Talk About Laundry Security Systems
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| For Laundromat owners, laying out a coin laundry’s security system could be far more complicat... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Clean Show 09 Opens Hotel Reservations
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| Hotel reservations opened Aug. 8 for the Clean ’09 trade show in New Orleans June 18-21, 2009.... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Ways to Nicely Say “No!”
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| When one is the owner of a small business, you get approached by all kinds of people who want you to... |
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| 10/05/2008 - Some Simple Tips For: Starting With a New Approach
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| Every fall someone preaches to laundry folks about the need to clean up and get ready for the busier... |
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| 08/28/2008 - NORMAN MARTIN OF MONARCH INDUSTRIES RETIRING AUGUST 1ST
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| Norman A. Martin will be retiring from a long held position with Covington, Kentucky’s Monarch... |
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| 08/28/2008 - You Can Never Know Too Much About Your Laundry’s Lease
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| Aside from the importance of their family, possibly the most valuable thing any laundry owner has is... |
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| 08/28/2008 - Some Simple Tips For:Saving While Lighting Your Laundry.
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| Electrical costs for lighting the interior of your laundry are soaring at a pretty scary pace. The r... |
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| 08/28/2008 - Keep on the Alert for Copper Thieves
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| Laundry owners should be aware that the costs of metal has gone up so fast that copper piped water l... |
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| 08/28/2008 - Coin Laundry News Technology Special, Part One
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| CL News Author’s Note: In the first of the popular Star Wars films, one of the android charact... |
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| 07/21/2008 - Background Checks Before You Hire
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| In early summer, such as now, lots of folks look for work for the first time in a long time. We are ... |
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| 07/21/2008 - A Brief Primer On Customer Seating For Your Laundry
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| When laundry designers consider what type of seating they should install in a new laundry facility, ... |
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| 07/21/2008 - Contracts, Documents, Leases; Read Carefully Before You Sign
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| The laundry industry doesn’t seem to be a particularly wild and dangerous place to make a busi... |
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| 07/21/2008 - Not Quite Everything You Needed (or Wanted) to Know About Water Heaters
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| Water heaters systems aren’t too technical and don’t too have many moving parts, yet the... |
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| 07/21/2008 - Use Double Buckets for Floor Care
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| The care and condition of the floor of a coin -laundry is so important to it’s success that it... |
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| 06/26/2008 - Laundry Success Means Cutting Utility Bills
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| In the state of California and many areas of the west, local gas and electric utilities will charge ... |
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| 06/26/2008 - One Key to Success is Setting Fair Vend Prices
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| After having spent so many years in the laundry business, you’d think we’d know most of ... |
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| 06/26/2008 - In the Laundry it’s a Must, Clean the Lint & Dust
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| Dust and lint are the biggest enemies of a laundry’s efficiency. First, it makes a laundromat ... |
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| 06/26/2008 - How Does One Define What an Independent Contractor is?
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| Beside owners and their family members, there are several types of people usually employed in a coin... |
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| 06/26/2008 - Laundromat Business Owners Need Good Tax Advice
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| Tax season has passed this year, but how about planning for 2008 taxes? Do laundry operators really ... |
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| 06/26/2008 - Laundry Owners Should Always be Thinking About Safety
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| In today’s lawsuit happy society, people are being sued at the drop of a hat. No real reason i... |
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| 06/26/2008 - Time to Hold an Inspection
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| Most laundromat businesses slow down a little over the warmer summer months. Customers are going on ... |
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| 06/26/2008 - Some Simple Tips For: Personally Installed Security Systems
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| When making plans to install television security cameras, many laundry owners purchase kits to lay o... |
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| 05/21/2008 - Keeping Crime & Vandalism Away From Your Laundry
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Vandalism and petty criminal acts have always been of great concern to laundry operators. No small... |
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| 05/21/2008 - Helping Grow A Laundry By Benefiting Others
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| The buyer, and thus new owner of a small, typical neighborhood laundry, was beginning to have his do... |
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| 05/21/2008 - Washers & Dryers: Is Bigger Better?
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| Early on in the history of the laundry industry, when a new laundry business was built, there were v... |
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| 05/21/2008 - Advertising & Promotion Ideas for Your Laundry
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| Every now and then trade magazines carry articles on how to advertise and promote your laundry busin... |
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| 05/21/2008 - How The Dry-Cleaning Process Really Works
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| There are many laundries across the nation which, in conjunction with fluff & fold activities, a... |
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| 05/21/2008 - CLEAN ’09 OPENS EXHIBIT SALES
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| Exhibit sales open in May for Clean ’09, the textile care industry’s premier trade show ... |
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| 05/01/2008 - Water Costs Grow
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| Metropolitan Water District, the largest water supplier in Southern California, is ready to increase... |
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| 05/01/2008 - New Five Dollar Bills Are Ready
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| The U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving & Printing has begun to circulate a new... |
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| 05/01/2008 - Keeping Good Records
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We’ve all heard it: “There is nothing surer than death and taxes.” And since our... |
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| 05/01/2008 - Could Incoorporating Be Good for My Laundry and Me?
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| THE SHORT ANSWER IS… MAYBE.
Most coin and card operated laundries in the western states are ... |
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| 05/01/2008 - When It Comes to Vend Prices; Increase and Survive
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| There are always a large number of potential calamities and catastrophic events threatening the welf... |
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| 05/01/2008 - Costs for Building That New Laundry Are Climbing
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| As the service and coin-op laundry businesses first were beginning, laundry design was easy and ofte... |
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| 05/01/2008 - Some Simple Tips For: The Ongoing Battle Against Grafitti
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| Sooner or later, even in the finest of neighborhoods, graffiti will appear on a coin laundry’s... |
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| 04/01/2008 - It’s Time to Talk About Fire Extinguishers
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| The local Fire Department was conducting an annual inspection of businesses in the city. As a result... |
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| 04/01/2008 - Beneficial Features To Help a Laundry Grow
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| You see them and it makes you wonder. Here are two laundries about the same age, and both have about... |
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| 04/01/2008 - We Talk About Water Vending
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| Variations seen in the operations of coin laundries, around the country, is the type and kinds of ve... |
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| 04/01/2008 - Water Heaters, the Heartbeat of Your Laundry
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| Perhaps the most misunderstood and most often overlooked part of a laundry’s equipment package... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Have You Considered Adding Fluff n Fold
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| In this day and age, everyone seems to be too busy and they are looking for ways and means for perso... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Spontaneous Combustion
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| Most of us have heard stories about fires that have begun mysteriously by themselves. It can happen ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Notes On Hiring And Training Laundry Workers
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| Most laundry operators pay little or no attention to proper procedures for successfully hiring, trai... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Safety Is As Safety Does
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| In today's litigating society, people are being sued at the drop of a hat. No real reason is needed,... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Conduct Regular Inspections
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| Its amazing the kinds of things you notice that could be safety hazards in a laundry. For example, a... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Some Simple Tips For Planning for Holiday Promotions
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| The month of September should be one of the most productive months for any one in the laundry busine... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Dont Let Failure To Remove Stains Spot Your Laundrys Reputation
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| Its quite natural for customers to think that you and your staff know a lot more about removing stai... |
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| 03/31/2008 - 07 Clean Show Tops Clean 05
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| Attendance at Clean ‘07, held June 11-14 in Las Vegas, topped the previous show: Clean ‘05 in Orland... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Become A Social Center For Your Laundry’s Neighborhood
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| One of the most often overlooked benefits of laundry operations is that they almost always become a ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - The Importance of Debit and Credit Card Security for Laundry Operators
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| The fastest growing types of crime, across the nation is credit card theft and abuse. That struck ho... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Some Simple Tips For: Asking Customers the Right Questions
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| Coin laundry owners tend to picture their own clientele as being much more sophisticated than those ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Will Owning an Un-Attended Laundry Really Work for Me
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| As the coin laundry business was just beginning, it was right at the end of World War II, and times ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Initial Numbers for Clean Show 07 Announced
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| Attendance at Clean Show 07 topped the previous show in Orlando. At the end of the first three days ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Hollywood Madam Now in Laundry Business
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| Ex-Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss opened a new laundry business in a shopping center in Pahrump, Nevad... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Shining Clean Washers and Dryers
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| In the laundry industry, there are right ways and other ways to maintain equipment and keep it shini... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Dangerously Dry Rainy Season
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| It Never Rains In Southern California, and for at least this latest rainy season, that once very pop... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Have You Heard About This
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| Counting in the back room he heard someone out in the customer area complaining loudly. It was a you... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Clean Ducts Help Save Money and Help Prevent Dryer Fires
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| For laundry operators, one of the greatest responsibilities and obligations, both for themselves and... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Having Business Interruption Insurance Pays
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| When there was a sewer line backup, the coin laundry operator called in all of the help he could fin... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Make a Bundle Without Having to Spend a Bundle
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| As rents increase, along with minimum wage and utility costs, many laundry operators look for other ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - That 70s Show - more Clean Show News
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| With well over five hundred tickets sold for the CLA Banquet Tuesday evening, the event promised to ... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Wow What a Show - Clean Show First Report
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| The Las Vegas Clean Show, which took place June 11-14, 2007, was one of the best laundry exhibits ev... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Simple Tips: Easy Laundry Promotions
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| Some experts say at least two percent of a business'' income should be spent advertising and promoti... |
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| 03/31/2008 - Suggestions For Hiring Training and Retaining Good Employees
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| He had just let his morning attendant go and was filling out her shift. A young girl came in to ask ... |
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