While laundry operators are happy to have COVID-19 in their rear-view mirrors, the road to recovery from the pandemic shutdowns of 2020-’22 is strewn with complications, particularly when growing demand for laundry services requires an operator to add capacity through a new or expanded facility.

Unless yours is a start-up operation, constructing or enlarging a laundry while serving existing customers can pose challenges ranging from labor and material shortages to permitting issues with governments to securing fleet vehicles from the theft of their catalytic converters.

Security And Site Permitting

The latter issue was so vexing for Huebsch Services President ...