AdkinsPwrWash
New Member
First off, I know the ole' saying "never count your chickens before they hatch", but I have stumbled across an account, that would make me rediculous money. It's a pretty decent sized fast food chain around here, and they have 5 stores in my town, all 5 of them do bang-up business, and are very well known. Anyhow, I was there one day getting lunch, and had my trailer behind me and the manager started asking questions about it, one thing led to another and I had the company owners cell number b/c I heard he was looking for a new company to clean his property.
I called him the other day and he said he was happy with who he had, and they had not given him a reason to lose his business, and I said that was cool, and I didn't want to steal someoen elses' business, but I noticed that they had left alot of gum/grease in the parking lot and that I could get that up. Well, he ends up telling me to come out to clean the parking lot the other night, for kind of a "demo clean" to show I could get up the gum..which I did. The parking lot is decent sized, and all 5 of the stores are cleaned every week=20 cleanings a month. Now, supposedly they have it set-up where they do 3 cleanings of the drive-thru then the final cleaning of the month is the entire parking lot. Now-these guys supposedly charge him $250 per visit, it's a larger company several guys, dodge dually HUGE gooseneck trailer etc., but they do a shitty job, and I had been figuring it up, that just me by myself ( I have ZERO overhead), could make that, if not $350.00 a cleaning, and have him know that when I leave the site everytime, his parking lot and building are SPOTLESS.
What I don't understand is, that works out to $5,000 a month at $250 a pop, or at $350 per cleaning it would be $7,000 per month. Or, $350 times 5 times 52, equals $91,000.00....just off of ONE ACCOUNT. Is this unheard of? Or, could this actually be doable? I know when broken down between the 5 shopw, over a year it's actually not as bad as it sounds, but even at $65,000 a year for the $250.00 cleanings, that is some good money.
So, tell me your opinions, does that kinda money sound about right? The parking lot gets VERY dirty, and is always riddled with gum, not to mention the grease etc., that come from the grease trap area which happens to be uphill, and runs down-hill for some reason..so it leaves nice streak marks every where.
Thanks Guys,
Jason
I called him the other day and he said he was happy with who he had, and they had not given him a reason to lose his business, and I said that was cool, and I didn't want to steal someoen elses' business, but I noticed that they had left alot of gum/grease in the parking lot and that I could get that up. Well, he ends up telling me to come out to clean the parking lot the other night, for kind of a "demo clean" to show I could get up the gum..which I did. The parking lot is decent sized, and all 5 of the stores are cleaned every week=20 cleanings a month. Now, supposedly they have it set-up where they do 3 cleanings of the drive-thru then the final cleaning of the month is the entire parking lot. Now-these guys supposedly charge him $250 per visit, it's a larger company several guys, dodge dually HUGE gooseneck trailer etc., but they do a shitty job, and I had been figuring it up, that just me by myself ( I have ZERO overhead), could make that, if not $350.00 a cleaning, and have him know that when I leave the site everytime, his parking lot and building are SPOTLESS.
What I don't understand is, that works out to $5,000 a month at $250 a pop, or at $350 per cleaning it would be $7,000 per month. Or, $350 times 5 times 52, equals $91,000.00....just off of ONE ACCOUNT. Is this unheard of? Or, could this actually be doable? I know when broken down between the 5 shopw, over a year it's actually not as bad as it sounds, but even at $65,000 a year for the $250.00 cleanings, that is some good money.
So, tell me your opinions, does that kinda money sound about right? The parking lot gets VERY dirty, and is always riddled with gum, not to mention the grease etc., that come from the grease trap area which happens to be uphill, and runs down-hill for some reason..so it leaves nice streak marks every where.
Thanks Guys,
Jason