2007 numbers IF U DARE!

[Ben's Car Wash]

Ok... lets here them. Break out a bottle of your best booze, valium, antidepresent or just brag on the whell barrows full of cash you carted off this year!

Same as past years, Region, type of wash

Central Florida
My tunnel:

Down in volume 2007 from 2006 by 7% (I thought I was going to break even going into December). Unoffical gross revenues look like they are down by 5% but I won't know for sure until I see the P&L reports next week. My feeling is the the gross is actually up 5% and that the Site watch is reporting coins added into the XPT for some reason so I have to compare actual deposits.

SS is only 8 months into operation so I can not compare to prior years. I will also look at the month-month income and break that down to get a per/bay average. Credit cards are holding at 7.5%-10% still.

Plans for this year; Raise the price for full service washes, $3 EE washes ONLY ON PRE-PAIDS. RUN TIGHT!

 

[galen]

Down

Down 11% from last year.

 

[Louise]

Florida Panhandle
Down 7%

 

[ScottV]

IBA's up 9% in volume, 22% in revenue (due to a $1 price increase on 1/1/07). Upstate NY

 

[chadrpalmer]

down 2% in suburban kansas city

 

[Chiefs]

Up 6% in volume and 16% in revenue due to the first full year of taking credit cards. Doing so spurred a 40% increase in 5 wash book sales and helped sales of our new, wash any day for 30 days, Club Card program which has sold 600 @40.00 each since Febraury.

All this occurred, prior to our $1.00 price increase on September 1st. Looking forward to 2008.

 

[Jim Caudill]

Chiefs, your information is somewhat useless since you failed to address the "region and type of wash" that was requested of those that respond.

 

[Chiefs]

Midwest, large city, Express Exterior

 

[Greg Pack]

Just figured this out.

I bought an neglected existing 4/2 in March of 2006, and replaced vectors with water wizards in the June 2006. Upper middle class community.

Revenue is up quite a bit, about 25% in 2007, but we really lost momentum in November and December, which were only up about 5% over the previous year.

Broken out:

IBA 73% of site revenue
SS 19.5%
Vacuums 5.8%
Vending 1.3%
Other .4%

 

[Waxman]

what is 'other'? just curious.

 

[Greg Pack]

lawnmower repair. I'm purty good at fixin' lawnmowers. I've been doin that since they let me out of the nervous hospital.....

 

[Greg Pack]

Actually windshield repair, which we discontinued......

 

[pitzerwm]

The other was Greg's kid sitting out there with a cup of pencils.

 

[Greg Pack]

At my office today at the wash doing more number crunching. Managed to pull off operating expenses at about 32% of gross. I do all labor at this one. I could not imagine doing it any cheaper. I used to own washes where water/sewer alone were 10% of gross.

Major expenses as % of gross were

electricity 6%,
water/ sewer 3.9%,
Nat Gas .9%
Chemicals 7%,
Other supplies 2.3%
Trash .4%,
Insurance 1.3%,
Repairs 1.9%
Advertising .5%
Taxes 2.4%
Telephone .6%
bank (CC)fees 1.8%

 

[Earl Weiss]

3 0f 4 EEs in the Chicago area up about 15% in volume. The 4th was steady. I have no idea why it lagged the others.

 

[Reds]

N.E. Pa. 1 IBA, 2 SS. We were closed for 2 weeks in 2006 due to a major flood and sales were off for at least a month due to same flood (Jun-July 2006). Thus sales comps are somewhat skewed.
IBA up 22.7%
SS down 17%
Vacs down 12%
Gross Sales up 10%
Credit Sales up 38.6%
IBA comps were WAY UP in Feb, Mar, & Apr. 2007 -- Sep. thru mid Dec. 2007 were very slow (weather?)

 

[Doug P.]

I operate 9 SS and Inbay Auto sites in South Central Kentucky. On Nov 1st 07 volume was up 10.2 percent over the same period from 06. We finished 2007 up .5 percent over 2006. We had a lot of rainy days in Nov & Dec.

Doug P.