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the coils in every tavern should be cleaned thoroughly every few days, and
that the tavern owners were glad to pay a regular service fee for this type of
service. So he got in touch with the manufacturer of a coil cleaner and
established himself in a business of his own, servicing the beer coils in
taverns, restaurants, lunch rooms, hotels, soda fountains, cafes, road houses,
clubs, and amusement places. As his income from this service is better than
$100 a week, it didn’t take him long to corral that first thousand dollars.

“The beauty of this coil-cleaning device,” said Jimmy, “is that anybody can
operate it, and no one needs experience to work it. Yet there’s a good income
in owning one and working up service accounts. I charge a small fee of $1.00
for each bar I service, and I am now servicing 112 beer-selling bars.
However, I didn’t build up this business overnight. No sir! It took a lot of real
work to build it, but I figured at the time that no matter what line of business
you go into, you’ve got to work hard or you won’t make a nickel. As a matter
of fact, there was practically no one servicing these bars, when I started.
Naturally, the coils were in bad shape, and it took longer to do each job. The
fellow in town who had been servicing them was too busy to take care of all
the business. When I started, he called me up and gave me some of his
customers’ names, and told me to be sure and call on them. I did. But the way
he had handled their service had left a bad taste in their mouths, and it took
me a couple of months to overcome this.”

Jimmy carries his coil cleaner in a handy case when he makes the rounds of
the taverns he services. He simply connects the cleaner to the coil, turns on
the little handles and the machine does the rest. This device, which is
operated by electricity, leaves the coils thoroughly cleaned and scoured,
without the use of chemicals, acids or steam. It can be carried anywhere, is
compact and handy, and can be operated from a light socket in any taproom.

The total investment Jimmy made in this equipment was $107. He owned a
roadster at the time he made his purchase, and was therefore ready to make
calls in any emergency. The fact that the coils must be cleaned and kept clean
to give good tasting beer, makes the beer coil-cleaning service a permanent
business which can be built up as big as you want to make it.