Changers are caught in the middle of a tug of war at the laundromat. It’s there that you’ll find people pulling quarters while operators struggle to hang on to their [...]
I once asked the wisest man in coin-op pay to predict when quarters would disappear from laundromats. His response: When the cheapest wash tops $5. It sure looks like we’re in [...]
Laundromat pay kiosks have been around for decades. What began with the simple push-pull of a coin slide spitting out wafer-thin wash tickets graduated to ones and fives being [...]
The curtain is getting pulled back on the mystery of how laundromat customers pay. A January snap poll found eight in ten operators receive most of their self-service machine revenue in [...]
Dryer pricing resembles limbo dancing: Lower the minutes and you might take a tumble. The bar sure isn’t set very high when it comes to minutes-per-quarter on a 30-pounder. So I’ll ask: [...]
The pandemic is helping us understand what’s truly essential in laundromat operations. Remaining open to the public is one thing. Giving them what they want and need is something else. [...]
If there were any lingering doubts as to how big a role coin plays in the laundromat business, then the pandemic surely put those to rest. In June, just as self-service laundry [...]
Laundromats have finally cracked the code on getting more people to use them: Bring the store to their front door. That’s right, put the laundromat at the welcome mat. Picking up [...]
The laundromat industry’s long overdue move from quarter-only to dual coin pay appears to be taking hold. Dollar coin acceptance is up six percentage points and now ranks as the [...]
Quarters made sense back when wash used to cost a few dollars, not eight bucks. The supersized machines of today may hold a lot, but the money boxes sure don’t. Scott Badarak in San [...]
Few are fortunate enough in life to have business mentors. I’ve been blessed with many. My father taught me four quarters make a buck and I learned how to parlay that into much more [...]
(This edited article originally appeared in the June 2019 issue of Coin Laundry News) Coin is the first name of the Coin Laundry Association and synonymous with our industry. Every [...]
