| Well, it appears that the Chinese like clean cars just like | | | | washing carts that operators pushed around. This way |
| us Americans, and will all the cars they are buying the | | | | the cost would be low, as we must remember that |
| car washing business sector there cannot seem to | | | | the cost of a car is $2500 to $4000 and the cost to |
| keep up. There are all sorts of issue, such as energy, | | | | wash would be a tenth of the basic (mobile) wash |
| land cost, and water usage. So, where are the 470 | | | | here of $5-7 USD, so we are talking $.50 - $.70 per |
| million in the Chinese middle class going to get their | | | | car wash, but it is still doable. |
| cars washed - that is once they buy a car. In China | | | | That is, "if" the washer kept 33%, and was charged a |
| middle class means about $1200 per year in earnings | | | | fair rental rate the business person who owned 25-50 |
| or about $3 (USD) per day and the cost for a car | | | | carts would make a very good amount of money. The |
| wash couldn't fetch more than about one-tenth of | | | | royalties collected could be substantial, but it would |
| what it does here. | | | | have to be a home-grown entrepreneur, not a US |
| Okay, so, we must too realize that the labor costs are | | | | based franchisor. After all, since the Chinese are |
| one-tenth as well. So, is it feasible, is there room for | | | | excellent imitators, they'd simply copy the business |
| 100s of thousands of car washes? Perhaps not in | | | | model, and the US franchisor, would never see a dime. |
| Shanghai, Beijing, or some of the other highly populated | | | | The franchisor could not trust that market or maintain |
| cities, but mobile car washing could certainly work, and | | | | proprietary rights to the business model and still get |
| employ vast numbers of Chinese too. | | | | paid, so they'd have to get paid up front, but I do not |
| What about mobile car wash operations on mopeds, | | | | see how someone would pay $100,000 to $500,000 |
| three wheeled bicycles, carts, and other variations | | | | up front for something they could copy and steal, and |
| depending on the exact location - would this work | | | | even if their limited knowledge of the copy was |
| well? How about larger units for bigger more industrial | | | | incorrect, in their minds, they'd be a shrewd business |
| areas where buses, trucks, aircraft, marine equipment, | | | | person in cheating the US based franchisor. |
| agriculture equip, construction equip, new cars, rail, etc | | | | Meanwhile, others would copy them and put them at a |
| would be washed? Is this a viable business model? | | | | disadvantage by stealing the concept and competing |
| My answer is YES, yes it is. | | | | directly with them, while they had paid us. As the |
| In a nut shell, a smart entrepreneur, not US based, but | | | | founder of the largest mobile car wash franchise |
| a Chinese business person could produce mobile car | | | | company in the world, those are my thoughts. |