Employing Staff On The Spectrum, Car Wash Looks To Expand
by Scott Luxor, South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS | January 19, 2021
Leonardo Coakley details a car dashboard in 2013 at Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Fla. (Joe Rimkus Jr./Miami Herald/TNS)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. The ripple started in Parkland. Then it became a wave in Margate. Now there’s a Rising Tide coming to Coral Springs.
Rising Tide Car Wash, which hires mostly people on the autism spectrum, has now found enough success in its business model to expand to a third location.
John D’Eri co-founded the car wash business with his son Thomas in Parkland back in 2013. His mission was to create a social enterprise to give people with autism an opportunity to have real opportunities and real jobs that would challenge them and give them skills.
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