Professional Carwashing & Detailing - Feb 2012
46 THE Busines CENTER Joes Car Wash Professional Carwashing Detailing February 2012 We didnt have any rain for five months To my mindset Id like for it to rain every week especially at night Richard Watson co owner of Joes Car Wash Credit cards are accepted in every wash bay and Watson hopes to add credit card acceptance to the vacuums as well door to a large auto supply house and our customers walk across the street and they buy all sorts of stuff Currently the wash includes six vacuum cleaner islands and the business charges 1 for four minutes of vacuum time Watson is working with his equipment supplier to add credit card acceptance to all vacuums The challenge will be installing the card readers without tearing up half the carwashs concrete to put in data lines In fact the vacuums may have to be connected to the network using satellites Watson is not sure that credit card acceptance will actually increase the money made from vacuums Instead he is interested in converting them to credit card so that when a customer comes to Joes he or she will not need cash at all It looks like thats going to be a major major good thing for our business once the economy turns around he said Even so the carwashs 10 vending machines have not proven as successful We dont do the business we would like to do with our vending products Watson stated The reason for that we are next stalls Adding the card readers increased business by 30 percent and it helped Watson maintain the business during the economic downturn Hose dryers were recently installed in the self serve bays as well Watson noted that they have proven to be very popular Circle 203 Continued from prior page Concluded on page 48
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