• JollyBrancher @lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Biggest cost is the startup and then employees, with an occasional big maintenance repair. Buying cleaning products in bulk? The cost will make you feel cheated for what you pay for a quart to a gallon.

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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        3 hours ago

        I get that, i used to service a small-ish car wash, and the amout of times something broke or didn’t work or the cost of osmosis filters alone was staggering to me. Always thinking about how many people would have to wash a car to just get that money back.

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      2 days ago

      With drug money, duh.

      Haven’t you seen Breaking Bad?

      The drug trade is a trillion dollar industry. Got to wash them somewhere. Where better than at a washer?

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        Yup. Really easy to stuff some cash in the till and declare it as income with a car wash. Actually clean 100 cars a day? Buy enough cleaning supplies for 130 cars. Report on your records that you sold 130 washes. Dump the excess chemicals down the drain or just use them abundantly during washes. Sure, if you claim to wash a thousand cars when you only washed 100, then that could get you caught quickly. But if you’re not greedy, you could keep such a setup going for a very long time.