Lake Worth Dixie Hwy. Business Spotlight: Cocoanut Palm Cleaners

I had the pleasure meeting with Bob Salerno with Cocoanut Palm Cleaners at 1714 N. Dixie Hwy. He and Gene Salerno added this location to the Ultra Cleaners family of stores which include outlets in Wellington, Boynton Beach and Boca Raton. The original Cocoanut Palm Cleaners was founded back in 1958 by Clarence Roeser and its been at its current Lake Worth location since 2002. Gene and Bob purchased this store in 2013 and are making significant upgrades.

They specialize in processing men's business shirts - calling their final product the PERFECT men's shirt. They process about 12,000 shirts on a weekly basis. This includes storefront, walk-in customers and several wholesale dry cleaning accounts from Palm Beach Gardens to Boca Raton. They use state-of-of-the-art pressing equipment made by Sankoska Corporation. At the Lake Worth location, they have three large washing machines which are capable of washing almost 400 shirts on an hourly basis. They currently have ten employees at the Lake Worth location.

Here are some pictures of their equipment inside the building.

I asked Bob how his utility bills were and was surprised to hear that his electric bill is not out of line with his other stores, but that the water bill is higher. He said that business was hit hard during the past recession, but things are bouncing back.

They are running a special on men's business shirts for $1.49 a piece, no limit. Make sure you mention that you saw this on Wes Blackman's blog. Thanks for the tour Bob and wishes for continued success at this Dixie Hwy. location.

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