Kona Cleaners has been the best dry cleaner in Costa Mesa since its doors first opened in 1950. Today, as the company celebrates its 70th anniversary, it just may be the premiere cleaner in all of Southern California. But to hear Bobby Patel, who has owned the business since 1995 and is responsible for the […]
Month: November 2020
You Can’t Shrink Your Way To Greatness
It’s been 8 months since the Covid shut down, and demand for dry cleaning demand dropped 85 percent or more in many markets. In many areas businesses and economies are reopening, trying to get back to some sort of normalcy, doing the best they can to make a profitable business. Recently I was in the […]
From Paper Tags To…
I used to help out my dad after school and on Saturdays tagging the clothes, separating the laundry, shirts and drycleaning. Laundered items got a small piece tag, shirts got a 7-up button-hole tag and drycleaning got a jumbo tag. I remember having to go to the supply room where the extra cases of hangers, […]