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...about $1.04 million in 2005 dollars—students can now summon a worker to wash their laundry for $19.95. Now fresh and folded clothes join pepperoni pizza and Peking duck among the items that students can have delivered straight to their doors. The student-run start-up DormAid, in its continued effort to compete with the well-established Harvard Student Agencies Cleaners, launched the “A La Carte Laundry and Room Cleaning Service” this past weekend, offering emergency housekeeping assistance to students who aren’t signed up for a long-term plan. Customers...
...offer a service that the market wants, and it’s not just the wealthy market. It’s great,” Cecot said, citing the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Texas, Austin as examples of public schools where DormAid is popular...
...DormAid currently serves students at 23 college and universities across the nation and plans to branch out to 1,900 schools next year, according to Kopko...
...spring of 2005, DormAid entered the national spotlight after The Crimson’s editorial board charged that the service created “yet another differential between the haves and have-nots on campus...
Kopko said that DormAid aims to expand its cleaning-service offerings to local businesses by July 2007. Kopko and his brother at Princeton launched the firm as an extension of an informal business he ran in Stoughton during his freshman year...