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I just bought a reconditioned soda machine and plan to install it this week. There's a Sam's Club 2 blocks from my wash where I can buy sodas cheap. Stocking and cash collect will be easy. Will report in here in a few months and let y'all know how it's going.

San Antonio (Upper Texico)

I suspect that was the case with my wash. It was built 20 years and I have no idea what the code/process was back then.

Wow...

24 Covid-19 cases statewide in TX as of today. SXSW was canceled because Austin Mayor Steve Adler is a spineless jellyfish.

I’m set to count up so there’s no preset time, just the $15.00 max stop point. They’ll wash longer and spend more when there’s no timer beeping at them.

I'm just hoping the "do not touch" hysteria doesn't move toward spray guns, rotary dials and vac nozzles... Are any of you folks in the outbreak areas? Any drop in traffic?

I couldn't make much sense of those fee schedules, either, so decided to take the leap. I've now got crypto on all vacs and bays. Vacs are $1.00 to start, counting up with auto shutoff at $10. Bays are $1.50 to start, counting up, shutting off at $15. After 10 months my all-in merchant fees...

Update: y'all may remember a thread I started awhile back about wringer sinks (which was another braindead idea by the original builder of this wash). Well, two weeks ago I finally took them out, much to the chagrin of every homeless turd and cheapskate in NE San Antonio. Got sick of my wash...

Exactly, who ever built it before I bought it had way too much trust in mankind

It does have three steel/concrete bollards in front of it

The main water shutoff for my SS (my main, not the city meter) is built on a riser above ground right next to the sidewalk out front. No box, no protection, no nothing. When I bought the wash last summer I was thinking "this could be trouble" but got busy with other renovation projects and...

My Crypto start price is same as cash and set to count up. Average CC ticket is now $7.15 versus $4.75 for cash. Credit cards were 15% of sales the first month, now up to 35% nine months later. Great system and no regrets, so far.

We find a lot of floss picks and bobby pins around the vac islands too. Old habits die hard.

Exactly. Considering the nasty crap that my $1 customers try to vacuum up, I can't imagine what they must be finding in those "no purchase required" vacs.

I googled “quarter on a string” and this came up. I guess my customers are fans of Sponge Bob Square Pants...

That's a great idea, I'm on it!

...stupid is as stupid does. This morning I had to dismantle a jammed coin mech and found the following: one penny, one $5 peso coin, one token from someone else's wash, 3 clean quarters, and 2 quarters with strings. Here's what I can't figure out: My vacs are only $1.00 to start, so if he...

I tried duct tape and also drilling through the cuff and hose and running a heavy zip tie to lock them down. Neither lasted long. Then ran a smooth head carriage bolt through the cuff and hose tightened it with a lock nut. Two months now and holding so calling it a win.

Just an FYI: I have the auto logic dryers and I see lots of folks using it with a two handed grip. It’s blows hard and older (weaker) users are always holding the handle and the hose at the same time.