In a year that’s redefined normal, Lapels Dry Cleaning, an innovative, environmentally friendly dry cleaning company headquartered in Hanover, Massachusetts, took what’s become its normal place on Entrepreneur magazine’s Franchise 500. For 2021, Lapels Dry Cleaning ranking 397 out of nearly 4,000 Franchise Concepts now available within the country. “We strive to be the best […]
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Desperate Times
I’ve been heavily involved in dry cleaning since I was 19 years old, and just when I think I’ve seen it all, it turns out I haven’t. This popped up on one of my social media feeds….. I don’t know about you, but, the post absolutely disgusted me. How low can some business owners in […]
VERBATIM: Richard Aviles
WHO? Richard Aviles WHERE? New York City WHAT? In the late 1960s, a young Puerto Rican man named Joseph Aviles bought into a dry-cleaning franchise called Betty Brite in Parlin, New Jersey. He was fresh out of the Marines and took immense pride in completing a job as meticulously and thoroughly as possible. He was […]