Vended Laundries

Vended Laundries

• • Express Laundry Centers®
• • Location Selection & Estimating Sales Volume
• • Equipment Mix, Utilities, Services Offered, Customer Throughput & Design
• • Proforma Summary & Financing
• • Laundry Buildout
• • Marketing
• • Training
• • After-Sales Support

Have a vended laundry and ready to take it to the next level?

How the Team at CG West Helps

Location Selection & Estimating Sales Volume

Early on, the CG West team works closely with you to evaluate any potential sites for your new vended laundry by analyzing competition, traffic flow, visibility and demographics. Once a site looks solid, we'll estimate your laundry’s sales potential by applying value to your demographic data, competition, equipment mix and utility costs, etc. This tells you whether or not to move forward with that location.

Equipment Mix, Utilities, Services Offered, Customer Throughput & Design

Once the location is a go, we work to conceptualize your store’s equipment mix, payment system, utilities, customer space and design in order to provide a financial snapshot to you and the lender. We'll take you through equipment sizes, types and performance levels, while factoring in criteria like efficiency, accessibility, G-force and programmability. Together, if your business model calls for it, you’ll plan space for additional services/revenue streams, including vending, drop-off wash/dry/fold, dry cleaning, commercial laundry services, and pickup and delivery, among others. Remember, by planning for and offering additional services, a vended laundry can often better penetrate its demographic and serve a wider variety of customers, generate increased revenue, and better utilize employees. Added services can help your business better utilize the unused capacity of your laundry, which makes you less reliant on only the walk-in customer. Finally, we'll provide detailed line drawings of the laundry.

Proforma Summary & Financing

At this step, CG West takes all this data and generate a Proforma, or cashflow summary. This is a financial statement that overviews a new laundry’s capital outlay, return on investment, wash and dry income, services income, taxable income, losses, expenses, and more. This summary is essential to securing favorable financing and is submitted along with a detailed laundromat site plan, competitive analysis and equipment proposal to lenders. CG West works with lenders familiar with the laundry business, which often becomes critical to getting funded. This lender becomes a key partner and long-term ally, just like we do.

Laundry Buildout

Once financing is approved, together we will engage an architect and a general contractor to perform necessary plans, process for permits and buildout your space. The general contractor coordinates subcontractors and CG West provides all your store’s laundry equipment, laundry carts, vending machines, electronic payment systems, etc.

Marketing

This is the point where you start marketing your new vended laundry. We'll connect you with affordable marketing packages tailored through Girbau Creative Services to new store development — helping with branding and logo development, signage, door hangers, websites, social media management, public relations and grand openings.

Training

When the laundry is complete — or nearly complete — CG West will provide training on maintaining equipment, operating machines, programming machines, serving customers and providing services such as wash/dry/fold. We offer hands-on training as well as preventative maintenance schedules and service contracts. We want you to be successful.

After-Sales Support

The team at CG West also delivers after-sale services including preventative maintenance, technical repairs, replacement parts and replacement equipment. We host events and seminars where vended laundry owners are briefed on industry trends and technology. These events are important for swapping ideas, learning ways to improve efficiencies and profits, connecting with industry experts and examining new technology or programming. Finally, CG West will always be looking for ways to help improve your business’ profits — even 2, 5, 10 and 15 years down the road!