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Which Laundromat Assumptions Should You Verify Before an Equipment Quote?
Example: St. Petersburg, Florida reference case. Sample, not a forecast.
An equipment quote answers one question: what will the machines cost? It cannot tell you whether the store will work. That depends on the assumptions around the quote, and some of them should be settled before you ask a supplier for a price.
Sort every assumption by where it comes from
A useful habit is to label each number in your plan by its source class:
- Official fact: taken from a named public source, such as a published tax rate.
- Sourced benchmark: taken from a price list, tariff, specification sheet, program terms or a comparable business.
- Explicit illustrative assumption: a placeholder chosen because no official figure exists for your site yet.
The third group is where most of the risk sits. Each of those numbers should be replaced with a quote, an offer or your own site-specific estimate.
Check the assumptions that shape the quote
Before you call a supplier, write down your working answer for:
- Capacity: how many washers and dryer pockets the space can hold.
- Utilization and ramp-up: how busy the machines will be at maturity, and how fast you expect to get there.
- Utilities: water, gas and electricity rates and consumption per cycle. These depend on the machines you choose, so ask the supplier for rated use in writing.
- Investment items: what the quote includes and excludes, such as freight, installation, fit-out and permits.
Check the costs the quote does not cover
Rent, CAM charges, insurance, attendant hours and wages, financing terms and owner tax sit outside any equipment quote. Treat each one as a placeholder until you have a written figure.
How the Feasivio reference case helps
In the Professional and Premium packages, the report's Annex A lists every example assumption of the Florida reference case with its source class, date basis and source reference. The Starter package includes the same kind of list as a separate sources annex. The workbook's Inputs tab, in Professional and Premium, groups the assumptions you can change: capacity and utilization, prices and payment fees, utilities, fixed costs and staff, investment and financing, and owner tax.
The figures describe the sample case only. Use them as a checklist of what to ask, not as numbers for your site.