Car Wash Business Economics: Throughput, Memberships & Cost per Wash
Run an express tunnel wash by the numbers: cars per hour and utilisation, package mix and average ticket, cost per wash, unlimited club economics and churn, membership mix scenarios, rain-day effects, equipment payback, NPV and IRR, and a monthly dashboard – 8 graded labs on a fictional wash.
The first lesson is free — no account needed.
About this course
A car wash business economics course that runs one fictional express tunnel wash by the numbers in a spreadsheet, for car wash owners and investors, operators weighing an unlimited club and business students. You work out the tunnel's cars per hour and Saturday utilisation hour by hour, measure the package mix, the average ticket and what an upsell from Basic to Deluxe is worth, build the variable cost of one wash from gallons of water, kWh, chemicals, labour and card fees, calculate an unlimited club's monthly recurring revenue, revenue per member visit, churn and member lifetime value, compare three membership mix scenarios, turn rain days into a volume factor for a six-month forecast, judge a tunnel upgrade with payback, NPV and IRR and complete a six-month dashboard of washes and revenue per wash. Illustrative numbers. The first lab is free.
Lessons
- Tunnel Capacity: Cars per Hour and Utilisation by HourFree
- Wash Package Mix and the Average Ticket Pro
- Cost per Wash: Water, Chemicals, Electricity and Labour Pro
- Unlimited Membership Economics: Visits, Revenue per Visit and Churn Pro
- Membership vs Single-wash Mix: Three Scenarios Pro
- Weather and Volume: the Cost of Rain Days Pro
- Equipment Investment: Payback, NPV and IRR Pro
- Monthly Dashboard: Washes, Revenue and Revenue per Wash Pro