Jun 26, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
At The Car Wash Show 2026 in Nashville, Kendra Johnson sits down with Carl Howard, Founder and CEO of GenrRev and owner of Autobell Car Wash, and Sam Short, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer…
Sam ShortGuest
Carl HowardGuest
Kendra JohnsonHost
And I don't mean to be hounding that point, but if we start thinking business first and customer second, right? You're creating a friction point.

If you can get rid of that bottleneck, if you can speed throughput, if you can do some of those other things and then use technology on the backside to connect different pieces, that's one of the other things is there's no reason you can't have a frictionless customer experience and at the same time get good data insights and have a CRM and have marketing and have all these other things.

They existed certainly in the restaurant industry, all over the place, right? It's ubiquitous.

And so being able to do that in what should be and what strives to be a really easy experience.

You go through, like as a customer, I go through an express wash like that's what I want.

So we're already doing it in the car wash industry from an operational standpoint.
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And I don't mean to be hounding that point, but if we start thinking business first and customer second, right? You're creating a friction point.

If you can get rid of that bottleneck, if you can speed throughput, if you can do some of those other things and then use technology on the backside to connect different pieces, that's one of the other things is there's no reason you can't have a frictionless customer experience and at the same time get good data insights and have a CRM and have marketing and have all these other things.

They existed certainly in the restaurant industry, all over the place, right? It's ubiquitous.

And so being able to do that in what should be and what strives to be a really easy experience.

You go through, like as a customer, I go through an express wash like that's what I want.

So we're already doing it in the car wash industry from an operational standpoint.