Car Wash History
Quick Quack History
QQOP
Quackals Peers
The Showroom
100
The world's first car wash, "Automobile Laundry," opened in this motor city in 1914. Workers pushed cars through a manual, assembly-line-like process to wash, polish and dry them.
What is Detriot, MI?
100
In 2000, these two future founders met in business school at BYU and an “idea was born.”
Who are Jason Johnson and Travis Kimball?
100
This Quick Quack Mission is directly supported by QQOP.
What is Change Lives for the Better?
100
This short‑tempered Disney duck debuted in 1934 and is known for his sailor outfit.
Who is Donald Duck?
100
This component aligns the vehicle’s wheels with the wash conveyor before the car enters the main path.
What is the correlator?
200
Now better known for coffee, this city had the first fully automated, hands-free car wash in 1951.
What is Seattle, WA?
200
Quick Quack Car Wash wasn't our first name. First, we had this water-based name.
What is Splash & Dash Car Wash?
200
Quick Quack leaders are looking for these three qualities during the interview process and beyond.
What is Smart, Kind and Driven?
200
This Scottish billionaire duck loves to swim in his money bin.
Who is Scrooge McDuck?
200
These friction assets are designed to add mechanical action to cleaning inside the showroom.
What are flex wraps?
300
In this movie town, the first automatic conveyor car wash opened, using a primitive winch system to pull vehicles along the tunnel. Attendants still had to scrub down and dry vehicles.
What is Hollywood, CA?
300
We're currently based in Roseville, CA. But we actually started in this CA town.
What is Carmichael, CA?
300
This pool of emergency funds for the Quick Quack community is available to any full-time or part-time team member after 90 days of employment.
What is the Quick Quack Grant Circle?
300
This Looney Tunes duck has a superhero alter ego called “The Scarlet Pumpernickel.”
Who is Daffy Duck?
300
This “weather”‑named component is part of the showroom sequence and helps distribute water/chemistry across the vehicle.
What are rain bars?
400
This windy city was the first to enjoy an overhead water sprinkler system that wet the vehicle down. Workers would then manually operate brushes for cleaning and an air blower for drying.
What is Chicago, IL?
400
These first investors were added to the Quick Quack family in 2014.
Who are Seidler Equity Partners?
400
This program supports Team Members in achieving their personal and professional goals by providing financial assistance for educational needs, skill improvement, certifications, career development, or service projects.
What is the Investing in Dreams Program?
400
This song was written by Jeff Moss, arranged by Joe Raposo and originally sung by Jim Henson who performed it as the Muppet character Ernie on the television program Sesame Street. It hit No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 26, 1970.
What is "Rubber Duckie"?
400
These components are responsible for hitting heavy soil areas low on the car and are named directly in showroom equipment lists.
What are wheel blasters?
500
In early 2001, Benny's Car Wash developed the fully automatic express exterior car wash and introduced it in this Pelican state.
What is Louisianna?
500
This leading global investment firm has a significant minority investment in Quick Quack Car Wash, starting the ownership program.
What is KKR?
500
This program reinforces ownership thinking by sharing company success with team members.
What is the Quick Quack Ownership Program (QQOP)?
500
This fictional, duck-like creature is known for suffering from a chronic, intense headache that releases mysterious, powerful psychic abilities.
What is a Psyduck?
500
This is the rule that protects team members and equipment: never use this in the showroom while the wash is operating.
What is a hose or pressure washer?
600
The Auto Wash Bowl started in this Minnesota capital city and was a ribbed, concrete bowl that vibrated the car and water to wash off mud and animal waste from the chassis and wheels. On a busy Saturday, this wash saw 75 cars per hour.
What is St. Paul?
600
In 2008, Quick Quack Car Wash appeared on this magazine's fastest-growing companies list.
What is Inc. Magazine?
600
This leadership behavior is considered a foundation of kindness at Quick Quack.
What is accountability?
600
This team was coached by Emilio Estevez in 1992 in this film of the same name.
Who are the Mighty Ducks?
600
This showroom sensing system is commonly paired with photo eyes to detect vehicles and spacing.
What is sonar?
700
The Automobile Laundry charged $1.50 for a 20-minute hand wash service, which would be about how much today?
What is $45?
700
Quick Quack Car Wash wasn't the front-runner to replace the Splash and Dash name. Instead, we had this shiny name.
What is Brilliant Car Wash?
700
This phrase describes how Quick Quack leaders change lives for the better and support their team members.
What is teaching and serving?
700
This hit reality show ran for 11 seasons on A&E, following the Robertson family's duck call business.
What is Duck Dynasty?
700
This system appears in showroom equipment checklists and is designed to prevent vehicle contact issues.
What is anti‑collision?
800
Manual car washes needed to staff 50 or more attendants to maintain efficiency until the Minit-man System, deducing staff needs to only this many attendants.
What is 8?
800
In 2006, this Carmichael store suffered two disasters: a fire, and soon after, this.
What is a flood?
800
This driver builds value by growing store sales year-over-year and will progress us to the 3x evaluation.
What is Same Store Sales Growth?
800
Started in 2020 in Canada as a way to spread positivity, this trend continues to give friendly compliments to car owners by leaving a small rubber duck on their vehicle.
What is #DuckDuckJeep?
800
This single system controls RPM for all showroom wraps, not just flex wraps.
What is the main hydraulic unit?
900
In 1946, there were 50 car washes in the US. Only 9 years later, there were over this many car washes in the US.
What is 2,000 car washes?
900
In 2014, Quick Quack introduced a new building design and expanded into this California market.
What is Palm Springs, CA?
900
As owners, being mindful of spending and controlling process and operational costs is also known as this value driver.
What is driving margins?
900
This purple‑clad superhero duck from a ’90s cartoon insisted on “getting dangerous.”
Who is Darkwing Duck?
900
When a roller jams, this action must happen before any physical intervention.
What is engaging the E‑Stop?
1000
Automatic car washes were first introduced to Europe in Germany in 1961. First attempts were unsuccessful because they used these materials to "shave" the cars clean.
What is sawdust and cork?
1000
After learning of his love of car washes, we provided this young boy with his very own car wash in his backyard. 
Who is Elias Mirador?
1000
This value driver gives us an extra multiple in value based on how each store performs.
What is being the best in the industry?
1000
This alien duck superhero from Marvel Comics is definitely not a goose and appeared his own film in 1986.
Who is Howard the Duck?
1000
This forthcoming showroom sensor system streamlines operations by dramatically reducing troubleshooting time through fast-issue identification. Rollout started March 2nd.
What is QSense?