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Director of Journalism/Editor in Chief
CW Daily News

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🔦TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT🔦

Rinsed introduces new tools to help car wash operators boost customer loyalty

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✂️SHORTCUTS✂️

   Editor’s Pick 👇

• $8.7 million estate of Domino’s founder includes car wash: If three residences, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired architecture, and 30 acres of land aren’t enough to tempt a buyer, the home of Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monagham also includes plenty of extra amenities, including its own automatic drive-thru car wash. There’s also an ice rink, tennis court, greenhouse, massage room and baseball field. The property, built in 1996 and located near Ann Arbor, Michigan, was recently listed for sale. Read more here.

   Express Hits  🎯 

• El Car Wash is partnering with Rotten candy brand for a summer giveaway to give a tasty twist to your next car wash. On Saturday (May 24), starting at noon at all El Car Wash locations, existing members – and new members who sign up on-site – will receive a free bag of Rotten candy and an exclusive online Rotten discount for ECW members. Supplies are limited. Eat Rotten candy contains 60 percent less sugar and utilizes ingredients like monk fruit, allulose, and prebiotics to reduce the sugar content. ECW has 72 locations across Florida and Michigan with 15 more slated to open this year.

• A former IHOP restaurant location could become a new Club Car Wash location in Overland Park, Kansas, if the Overland Park Planning Commission gives its approval. The plan for the new site calls for a roughly 5,000-square-foot car wash with 21 vacuum bays. It would be the fifth car wash facility in Johnson County. Club Car Wash offers multiple tiers of memberships, offering unlimited monthly washes (beginning at $22 monthly. Customers can also opt for single washes (begin at $10).

• The City Council of Mentor, Ohio, will hold a public hearing today (May 20) in the Mentor Municipal Center to discuss an application for a conditional use permit to allow a new Clean Express Auto Wash location at 9361 Mentor Ave. The permit has been submitted by Express Wash Concepts and Boston Market Real Estate Company. Clean Express currently has more than 32 locations across the areas of Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Pittsburgh.

  👉 More updates here.

   Making Waves Around the World  🌊 

• Mildenhall car wash owner fined £180,000 for illegal workers: A hand car wash owner has been fined £180,000 and banned as a company director for seven years after employing four illegal workers. Vittorio Dragoti, 28, of Mildenhall, a town in Suffolk, England, hired workers from Romania at the Fiveways Car Wash. The workers were discovered when immigration enforcement officials visited the car wash last year, according to the Insolvency Service. Officials found the Romanian men, aged between 18 and 49, with no right to work in the United Kingdom. Dragoti is prevented from becoming involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of a court.

  👉 More updates here.

  What’s Coming Up  📅

• 12th Women in Carwash Conference: The biannual conference’s second event of the year is set for Jun 8-10, 2025, at The Charter Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The three-day event includes presentations, hands-on workshops, discussion groups, open forums, networking opportunities, and entertaining experiences. More info here.

• Southwest Fuel & Convenience Expo 2025: The premier event for fuel, food and convenience retailers in the Southwest United States is set for June 9-11, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. More info here.

• Sunshine Expo 2025: The Florida Petroleum Marketers Association’s annual event is July 28-30, 2025, at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida. More info here.  

• Leadership Worth Following Growth Summit: The LWF’s Growth Summit, designed to bring together car wash professionals committed to growth, impact and authentic leadership, is Sept. 22-23, 2025, in Denver, Colorado. More info here.

• Car Wash Show Europe 2025: The leading car wash trade fair in Europe takes place Sept. 24-25, 2025, at EXPO Greater Amsterdam in the Netherlands. More info here.

• Northeast Regional Carwash Convention 2025: The NRCC, scheduled for Oct. 6-8, 2025, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, includes educational seminars, keynote speakers, and a large trade show. More info here.

• NACS Show 2025: The National Association of Convenience Stores trade show, scheduled for Oct. 14-17, 2025, Chicago, Illinois, brings together convenience and fuel retailing industry professionals for learning, buying and selling and networking. More info here.

• SEMO Show 2025: The Specialty Equipment Market Association’s annual automotive industry tradeshow is Nov. 4-7, 2025, at the Las Vegas (Nevada) Convention Center. Read more here.

• ICA 2026 The Car Wash Show: The International Carwash Association’s premier event is set for May 11-13, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. More info here.

❓DID YOU KNOW❓

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