Shirts are a pain because it takes a while to train a presser. Pressing shirts is more of a specialty than other items. So much so that we sometimes over-pay a shirt presser just because we have found someone that is good and we want to keep them on the staff. If a presser does […]
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I’ve been writing this column for a long time – over 15 years – and it doesn’t appear that I have ever discussed wash formulas. That is not entirely an accident. I usually give the chemical reps all the necessary latitude to program your shirt washer in order to best utilize the chemicals that they
This Mythbuster is a beauty. Really. Here it goes: Laying off employees doesn’t necessarily save labor! It might increase your labor cost! A major international company just laid off 60,000 employees. Can you believe that? 60,000. At each headquarters, the employees were called into an assembly hall of sorts and read a prepared statement that outlined
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How shocked will you be to learn that adding a steam tunnel can actually increase your labor cost? I have a pair of stories to tell you about Steam Tunnels. The makers of these tunnels could already be poised to shoot me, but I promise that I have recommended them many times and I may be
X-Mas wish list Its (already) time for my annual Christmas wish list. For the past decade or two, I have, somewhat whimsically, used this column to dream up some products that I believe this industry needs. These products don’t exist, but I wish that they did. They are products that would make the world of