Self-service laundry cafe: This crossover is amazing

No matter how peaceful life is, it can never be like a movie montage, cutting off the obscure and tedious chores and focusing on the essence of it. The reality is that after being exhausted from fighting with work, you still have to muster up your energy, lift the heavy laundry basket, and slowly walk to the unattended self-service laundry at the corner of the alley; fish out the three invoices in your jeans, pour in two bottle caps of detergent, and put in five copper coins of different sizes. Watching the dirt accumulated for several days fly around with the high-speed turning bubbles, the boredom continues. When day-to-day housework becomes an everyday burden, can we still utter the sentence elegantly and proudly: "C'est la vie."

While we are still struggling to figure out how to "optimize" our lives, a trendy self-service laundry cafe, "Laundré", was born in San Francisco's Mission District. As the economic backbone of Northern California, San Francisco has always been a large metropolitan area with a very high population density. Based on her life experience accumulated from working in San Francisco for eight years, Ariana Roviello, the founder of Laundré, came up with ideas in a crowded residential area and injected a new philosophy of life into the old community.

When recalling the laundry environment in urban communities, most of the impressions that come to mind are "negative": several washing machines are crammed into a narrow space, and the inside of the washing machine is covered with mold because no one has cleaned it for a long time, making it a humid and hot paradise for bacteria. "I observed that most of these residential areas are made up of renters, which means that some people will not be able to conveniently use the laundry facilities in the apartment. This also became the starting point for our business." Ariana's ideal is to use community-based laundry shops as the blueprint, with particular emphasis on two key points: convenient transportation and spacious space. Mission District is one of the few areas in San Francisco that has both.

Ariana believes that whether living in the diverse and trendy Mission District or in the suburbs of San Francisco, the price of traditional dry cleaners is still a very expensive expense for most families and singles - although people still cannot avoid its functionality, "Just imagine, who would be willing to spend $40 to wash clothes worth less than $10? The purpose of the laundry is to clean clothes, not to maintain luxury goods." In Ariana's opinion, living in a city where daily costs are rising year by year, a comfortable laundry environment should not be a resource exclusive to the upper class, but a right that everyone should have. With this ideal in mind, she quit her job and became a driver for Lyft (a transportation network company in San Francisco). At the same time, while conceiving her business plan, she actively looked for funds and locations. After nearly three years, she finally waited for the opening of Laundré.

Laundré's goal is to reduce the burden of laundry for people, while providing customers with a creative living space. When you walk into the store, you will soon find that Laundré is different from ordinary laundries. Before you even reach the laundry area, the first thing that catches your eye is a simple and stylish central bar. Looking around, the interior space uses white as the theme color, paired with wooden furniture and modern lamps, creating a clean, bright and fresh atmosphere. " I hope to make my space a place that symbolizes 'cleanliness'. While providing laundry services, customers can also experience a comfortable space atmosphere here. "

If you look closely at the anxiety generated by self-service laundromats, it all comes from the "long wait" during the laundry process; in order to avoid having your clothes stolen, it is difficult for us to leave the scene with peace of mind, and we always linger around waiting for the laundry to be completed. Ariana's laundry shop also cleverly solves this problem - she connects the cafe with the laundry equipment, so that while people are waiting for their clothes to be washed, they can go into the lobby to order a cup of coffee, sit comfortably on a high chair to enjoy the street view, use their computers, read novels, or even relax and chat with friends in a leisurely space.

The laundry equipment in the store is located in the space behind the bar. Through water-saving and energy-saving laundry equipment, customers can complete the washing and drying steps within 45 minutes, reducing the burden of lengthy laundry time. In addition, the store also provides free laundry detergent and reduces the price of a single laundry to about $5.00. In addition to helping customers operate the machine, the clerk is also responsible for monitoring the laundry process to ensure that everyone's clothes are not taken or lost by mistake. Through preferential prices and a simple space with a modern atmosphere, Ariana makes self-service laundry a tasteful daily ritual rather than a frustrating household chore list.

Looking at the present, Ariana Roviello may not be the first person to give a new definition to the laundry, but Laundré Laundry Café is definitely one of the best examples of integrating traditional needs with the pace of the city. In the phenomenon of an increasingly fast pace of life, urban residents need to merge the time allocation of various tasks into a single window. Multitasking not only makes our lives more efficient, but also allows us to reserve more time for our tired selves; it only takes a cup of coffee to coexist peacefully with the to-do list - this is undoubtedly a specific and smart solution in life.