Finishing up the Labor Day roundup…
Last month I got the Honda Odyssey (review) cleaned out at the beyond-awesome Allston Car Wash. It was about 95 degrees outside. One hundred percent of the folks whom I saw actually doing the cleaning were men. They were toiling with vacuum cleaners at the entrance. They were cleaning interior glass at the exit like the Karate Kid. There were only two women whom I encountered at the operation that 95-degree day. They were sitting behind the counter in an air-conditioned shop collecting money from customers.
At my local car wash in Arizona it is a lot hotter (say 105 ) and the mix is about 75/25 women to men. But out here you never know if they are legal workers or illegals and 100% of them speak Spanish and they all look Spanish and none of them understand English. But they sure clean the car nice and Phoenix car wash price is much lower ($15) than other cities in northern California ($20) for a full service wash.
My favourite car wash in Ontario where it can be -20c is almost 100% women.
I used to take my car to a place in Irvine, CA. The workers were 100% male, 100% hispanic, and did an amazing job for not much money.
Small sample size, I know, but my wife could honestly care less if the car is clean or not, (contrast to our house).
@Stephen I’m in Toronto, what car wash?
The Carwash Company in Newmarket.
Though I was recently at the St. Clair West Carwash, and that was all men IIRC.
What’s a good tip for carwash guys/gals?
Larry:
It depends. Does it come with a happy ending?
That’s how we ran the pizza shop when I was a kid too. Boys made the pizzas, delivered the pizzas, bussed the tables, did the morning prep work (dough, sauce, slice the vegetables, grind the cheese). The girls, and we tried to only hire pretty white ones, ran the registers and waitressed. This is the right way to run your business, it creates efficiencies.