Laundromat Economics: Turns per Day, Utilities per Cycle, Pricing & Payback

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Calculate the turns per day of every machine type, compare washers with dryers and count the machines that sit idle too often.
• Turn cycles and prices into monthly revenue, rank the machine types by revenue per machine and measure the store's revenue per square foot.
• Build the utility cost of one wash cycle for every washer size from gallons, hot-water share and kWh, and price one dryer cycle.
• Compare washer prices per pound, work out what each payment method really costs (including app bonus credit) and the net money left from one 20 lb cycle.
• Price a drop-off wash-dry-fold service: labour hours and cost, other direct costs, contribution margin and the break-even price per pound.
• Decide whether to replace 14 old top-loaders: monthly cash gain, simple payback, the equipment loan payment and the cash left after the payment.
• Calculate how many wash starts the store can handle per hour, compare Saturday's demand with that capacity and price the starts you lose.
• Project five years of cash flow, price the store at a cash-flow multiple, track the cumulative cash after the purchase and chart when you get your money back.