https://bizopsplaybook.com/tags/electric/Recent content in Electric on bizOpsPlaybook — Practical Business Plans for Solo EntrepreneursHugoen-usFri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bizopsplaybook.com/blog/laundromat-utility-audit-2026/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bizopsplaybook.com/blog/laundromat-utility-audit-2026/<p><img src="https://bizopsplaybook.com/img/blog/laundromat-utility-audit.jpg" alt="Row of stainless steel front-load commercial washers in a brightly lit laundromat with checkerboard flooring"></p> <p>Ask a laundromat operator what killed their Year 2 margin and roughly half of them will say the same thing: the water bill. Not the rent, not the payroll, not the equipment finance. The water bill. Utility costs — water, gas, electricity — are the second-largest operating expense category for most laundromats, and the one that quietly compounds when nobody is watching. A store that opens at 18% utilities-to-revenue and ignores the ratio for two years often wakes up at 28% and doesn&rsquo;t understand why the P&amp;L stopped working.</p>