Star Laundry Collective
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A private club for independent laundromat owners

Independent.
Not alone.

The things that would change your store — real benefits for your staff, supplier pricing that reflects volume, contracts bigger than your floor — are all denied to you for the same reason. You are one store. So we are assembling a few hundred.

Request access No cost. Reviewed by metro, in order of application.
Built by operators who own and run [N] laundromats and buy more every month.
The case

A group health plan needs a group. That is the whole obstacle, and it has nothing to do with how well you run your store.

Carriers underwrite headcount. An owner with three people on payroll never reaches the table — so the best attendant you ever trained eventually takes a job at a warehouse that offers coverage, and you start again. The same arithmetic decides what you pay for detergent, what a service call costs you, and whether the hotel across town will even return your bid.

None of it is a failure of operating. It is a failure of scale — and scale is the one thing a collective can manufacture without anybody selling anything.

The charter

Four terms, plainly stated

  1. I.

    You keep your store

    No franchise agreement, no royalty, no rebrand, no remodel. Your sign stays your sign and your books stay yours.

  2. II.

    We negotiate, you decide

    The collective goes to carriers, suppliers and contract holders as one body. Every member chooses individually whether to take what comes back.

  3. III.

    Nothing is promised before it exists

    This page separates what a member gets today from what we are still assembling. We would rather under-claim and keep the room.

  4. IV.

    Membership is not a sale

    Joining never obligates you to sell your business. [PENDING: how the first-right-of-refusal term is described here.]

Those four terms are the whole agreement. If they read fairly to you, put your store on the list.

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Four things that exist now and do not depend on how large the collective becomes.

The Downtime Defense SOP
A field guide your attendant follows to clear the most common washer and dryer faults without a service call — fault codes, photographs, and the order to check things in.
The Parts Exchange
A members-only board to buy, sell, or hand off surplus parts, coin mechanisms and card readers between stores. What one owner is about to scrap is what another needs on Thursday.
The Attendant Hiring Kit
Job posts that draw applicants, interview scorecards, and opening and closing checklists — the ones running in our own stores, not a template written for an office.
Operator Roundtables
A monthly closed-door call with multi-store operators who put real numbers on the screen — rent, payroll, water, what a route actually nets. Off the record, no vendors in the room.
Still being built

These are the reason the collective exists. None of them are switched on today, and each turns on at a member count rather than a date.

Group health for staff

Assembling the headcount carriers require before we go to market.

Collective supplier pricing

Chemicals, parts and consumables priced on the group’s combined volume.

Commercial dispatch

Regional and institutional work routed to members who can fulfil it.

Phase I — applications open

Put your store on the list

One minute now. We review by metro, in the order applications arrive.

Step 2 — machines, staff, vehicles and radius — comes next and takes two minutes. It is what puts you in line for commercial work.