“Yankee Equipment Systems, Inc. invites you to our 33rd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Trade Show. The show is a weekend-long sales, networking, and educational extravaganza for Laundromat Owners and potential Laundromat Owners. The goals of the show are to offer tremendous savings on our newest energy efficient equipment, extend deep parts discounts, provide unique networking opportunities with other successful Laundromat owner operators and educate Laundromat owners through several seminars.

We want to help you raise revenue!  Attend one of three seminars being held. Brian Wallace, President of Coin Laundry Association (CLA) and Chris Balestracci, President of New England Coin Laundry Association & Store Owner, will both be speaking about ways to raise revenue and increase your exposure to your customers. 

Be sure to make a list of spare parts you want to have on your shelf. Yankee’s parts department is offering up to 40% off Speed Queen Parts! See the Quantum line of Speed Queen Equipment with one of the most powerful microprocessors on the market today. Need Financing? No Problem. Speed Queen and Eastern Funding will be attending and both have money to lend to qualified buyers. Gas costs got you down? Look at the 99.8% efficient hot water heaters from Hamilton Engineering and NATCO. Thinking of card systems? Setomatic Systems, ESD, and CCI will all be attending. Our factory trained service personnel will attend too, and MUCH MUCH MORE!

Don’t miss this great opportunity to meet the Yankee Equipment Systems, Inc. team as well as manufacturer’s representatives, successful store owners and CLA representatives. Of course, there will be the traditional Corned Beef and Cabbage lunch served on both days. Call or email today to register.

Press Release

Yankee Equipment Systems, Inc. and a few hundred of its friends celebrated the Laundromat industry at Yankee’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Show. The Show held recently at the Westin Hotel in Waltham MA featured the latest equipment offerings from Speedqueen, the Show’s main sponsor, as well as ESD, Hamilton Engineering, Vendrite, Standard Changemakers, CCI, Natco, American Changer, Pellerin Milnor, Setomatic, JYS Solutions, and Rowe. In addition, Aristocraft and Package Supply provided well stocked supply displays.  Alliance Laundry Systems Finance, Eastern Funding, and Glacial Energy informed the attendees about their respective programs.
Education has always been a key component of the Show. This year was no exception. The theme of the Show this year was “Time to Raise Your Revenue”. Brian Wallace, President and CEO of the Coin Laundry Association, conducted two largely attended seminars: “10 Secrets for Promoting Your Laundry Now” and  “Tomorrow’s Self-Service Laundries”. Chris Balestracci, owner Super Wash in East Haven Ct, President of NECLA and former CLA Board member spoke about “ Ways to Raise Revenue” and Brendan Ristaino, Yankee Customer Service , spoke on social media to a  host of store owners.

At the annual Show banquet Bill Bittner, National Sales Manager for Speedqueen, explained the many initiatives Speedqueen is expanding this year to ensure its leadership as the highest quality producer of Laundromat equipment in the industry. These initiatives include a 35% increase in personnel slated for Design Engineering, the ALSU certification program for distributor sales and service representatives, the continuing quality improvement efforts through Kaizen programs and the Accelerated Life Test Lab at Speedqueen. Peter Limoncelli, Executive Vice-President and an owner of Yankee, spoke of the latest trends in the industry that can help increase sales. Among the trends discussed by Limoncelli were Credit card readers on washers, check cashing services, Groupon, adding commercial laundry services and revenue splitting on large capacity machines. Ted Ristaino, President and an owner of Yankee, urged everyone to go on the offensive in their business by reaching out to their customers. The benefits of CLA membership were also stressed. Limoncelli and Ristaino commented on the tremendous commitment of the store owners, suppliers, and CLA to the industry by virtue of their attendance and thanked them all.
“The networking, education, and relationship building of this event cannot be overstated. It is tremendous.” Ristaino remarked. Limoncelli agreed commenting “It is very gratifying to renew friendships every year and welcome new friends to this great industry.”