Adding a Facility to Scale Delivery with Ayad Mirjan

When adding Wash-Dry-Fold & Delivery to your laundromat, how do you know when you've outgrown your facility? What can you do to avoid affecting your self-serve customers? For Ayad Mirjan, his answer was simple, expand across the street! In this interview with Dave & Carla Menz, learn how Ayad expanded his delivery brand OrangeBag by adding a separate processing facility and even licensing his brand to other nearby owners. Ayad shares his tips for other owners and even shares his experience in becoming the only Green-Certified Laundry Delivery Service in Southern California!

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Timestamps
00:00 Episode 83 Intro
01:42 Product Spotlight: WDF & Delivery Dynamics – The Complete Business Blueprint
02:40 The Laundromat Millionaire Show Intro
04:18 Forecasted Growth of WDF & Delivery
08:13 Ayad’s Backstory
15:34 Acquiring the 1st Store
16:23 Buying Turn-Key vs a Fixer Upper
26:21 Ayad’s Laundry Business Model Today & the Retool
30:22 Expanding to a WDF & Delivery Facility
32:21 Appearing Big and then Getting Big – Growing the WDF & Delivery Business
34:31 Delegation & Building a Team for Growth
37:40 How to Know When Time to Expand to Another Facility?
43:11 Composition of the Orangebag WDF & Delivery Facility
44:38 The Orangebag Delivery Model Today
46:54 Owning the Process and Brand Consistency
48:49 By the Bag or By the Pound?
50:49 Delivery Turn Around Time
51:14 Becoming a Green Certified Business
55:43 What Does the Future for Ayad and Orangebag look like?
57:57 Ayad’s Contact Info

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