Presso Is Closing On 50 More Live Locations In USA

A note from Nishant Jain, CEO of Presso: The Presso team is closing in on 50 live locations in USA, and that’s still just a small slice of what’s already scheduled for delivery. This pace of adoption isn’t random. It’s a signal that something fundamental is shifting in laundry and dry cleaning.

Have you ever wondered why your local dry cleaner now takes 3–7 business days to get your clothes back?

It’s not bad service.
It’s a broken infrastructure.

We live in a world of Instacart, Amazon, DoorDash. Same-day is the baseline. But laundry and dry cleaning never evolved with the rest of commerce.

Here’s why.

Dry cleaning used to be a true local business.
Mom-and-pop operators. Familiar faces. Real care.

You’d walk in, they’d inspect every garment, treat it thoughtfully, and you’d often have it back the next day. Quality was high because the work was done locally, by people who knew the clothes and knew their customers.

That model collapsed.

Rising labor costs, toxic chemistry, and manual processes made local operations nearly impossible to sustain. Over the last four years alone, more than a third of the mom-and-pops shut down.

What replaced them wasn’t better, centralized dry-cleaning plants.

Today, most “local” dry cleaners are just pickup and drop-off points. Your clothes are trucked to massive industrial plants outside the city processing 10,000 garments a day instead of a 100.

The result:
• Longer turnaround times
• Lower quality
• Higher hidden costs
• More carbon emissions from transportation

Once an industry is built around trucks and batching, speed disappears. Multi-day turnaround becomes inevitable.

The uncomfortable truth is this:
The only survivable model in the old system is a centralized industrial plant outside the city.

And that’s exactly the problem.

Laundry and dry cleaning don’t benefit from centralization. They never have. This is a local need, neighborhood by neighborhood.

The only way to make this industry on-demand again is to redesign it from the ground up.

– Automated.
– Non-toxic.
– Local by design.

That’s why Presso® exists.

Every Presso location they launch is part of a bigger shift. Decentralizing laundry and dry cleaning. Bringing care back to the neighborhood. Delivering same-day quality without toxic chemistry or logistics overhead.

In many ways, they’re bringing back the mom-and-pop experience. The love and respect for clothes that are an extension of who they are. Just powered by modern technology.

They’re still early.

Later this year, Presso will be live in every major U.S. city, across all 50 states. And they’re opening the door to a new kind of operator. Not someone with a million dollars, but someone with ambition and about $100K to build a real business with real cash flow.

About Presso

The Presso machine is revolutionizing garment care with its patent-pending technology that presses and refreshes garments in as little as five minutes. Presso® is on a mission to rescue clothing from the drudgery of outdated routines with eco-friendly, quick-turnaround services that preserve fabric quality while challenging the need for routine dry cleaning.

For more information visit https://getpresso.com/, email info@getpresso.com, or call 646-644-2882.