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Alex Smereczniak

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
758 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Fucking...

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Sorry, asking some of these terms and these things.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It was an awesome experience.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

They literally just moved across the street because the light rail got put in.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

It was blocking their visibility.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

They didn't want to sell to another restaurant, even though it's perfectly designed and laid out and built for a restaurant.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So we had the ampage we needed, the water lines we needed because it was a restaurant.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Oh, right, yeah.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And we built a 6,500 square foot.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Most laundromats are 2,500, 3,500.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Giant facility.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Huge facility that we had open seven days a week to the public.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

But same thing with that kind of arbitrage or asset utilization.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Monday through Friday, the store's not as busy.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

We'd shut down these roll-up doors and we'd reserve that almost for like a production style, you know, facility or a manufacturing line.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

On the weekends when laundromats are busy, we'd open the roll-up doors and let the public use the whole thing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Wow.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

So we are up to 40, 43 of them, 43 of these.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

Yep.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
From Startup to Franchise: What Actually Works with Alex Smereczniak

And so this is going well, you still own this, right?