QUESTION 2: The economy has been shrinking since just after our last State of The Industry in 2007, and drycleaning was hit hard. Can you put the downturn’s effect on the industry in perspective vs. other businesses and past “shocks?”
RICHFIELD, Minn. — Pilgrim Cleaners in Richfield has done a good business laundering lab coats for a local dentists’ group for the last 12 years. And operator Jim Fingerman didn’t even go looking for the work — he was asked by the dentists.
