Dry cleaning franchises such as, Lapels dry cleaning, Jack and Jill's dry cleaners, Sonic dry clean, Dry clean concepts, Zoots, Americlean, 1 800 dry clean (1-800-dryclean), Pressed 4 Time (Pressed for time), Dry clean express, Dry clean depot, Kwik dry clean, mypinstripes, Martinizing, A Cleaner World, Dryclean USA and Comet Cleaners (Comet Dry Cleaners) to name a few I am sure have wonderful training programs and combine this with a good dry cleaning education at some of the few schools in the US or other counties gives a dry cleaner a great start. But to get the edge you need all the information you can get. What is the extra that will push you to a level of expertise. The new age of dry cleaners will see the baby boomers aging out to casual wear and cleaners will take a hard hit like they did in the polyester years of the 1960's - 70's. Choose to survive or sell or go under but at least have all the knowledge to fight these future difficult years to come. Scott Hylton has information you will find no where else and if you use only a fraction of this information to accent your business you will be one up on your competitor and that adds up. Go to dry cleaning school, join your local association, attend trade shows and buy all the books and get all the information from me so you can to be a great dry cleaner. Good luck and work harder and most importantly smarter than the other guy and success will come.