Laundromat Business - Anyone Considering?

[launderess]

Ohh I say!

If one were going to open an launderette, should like one like Bridge Street run by Dot Cotton or Pauline Fowler on Eastenders.

You'd find me with ciggy in one had, cup of tea in other, and always ready to dispense advice; wanted or not.

Oh and if you don't want an earful don't come in five minutes before closing asking for a service wash. Hahaha

 

[launderess]

If things like this happened at our local might be temped to go more often.

 

[launderess]

While Cleanly/Next has their problems the textile care market world over is moving toward on demand services.

All over USA and Europe dozens or more start-up app/on demand laundry and dry cleaning services have launched over past several years. More are in pipeline soon as they can rise funding.

Oxwash UK

https://www.uktech.news/news/monday-oxwashs-space-age-laundry-service-gets-14m-investment-20200501

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/1...n-praises-oxford-laundrettes-green-qualities/

https://www.businessinnovationmag.c...y-and-sam-branson-to-clean-up-laundry-sector/

Across the pond you have among others Lavoir Moderne:

https://www.lavoirmoderne.com

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lavoir-moderne

SoyezBCBG is another:

https://www.soyezbcbg.com/my5asec

 

[tomturbomatic]

For three months, the last 4 stations on the Green Line were closed for refurbishments. That meant a 30 minute, free, bone-shaking shuttle bus trip to the Ft. Totten station. The route was through lower income neighborhoods with lots of OLD apartment buildings. There were lots of coin laundries, some open 24 hours and combination laundry-beauty salons. The trips gave me much for which to be thankful, beginning with the fact that there were only two round trips per week, but I have not seen as many coin laundries in an area as in the transportation corridor through which we were driven. I don't know if the old apartment buildings ever had on premises laundry facilities or if they are just inadequate for the huge numbers of tenants living in each unit now, but in low income areas here, coin op laundries are all over and unlike coin machines in apartments, security and maintenance are not the property manager's problem. Plus, most of the females in the apartments work full or part time so being able to do all of it at once at a coin laundry with lots of machines and big machines takes less time.