No time or desire to wash your car yourself in the summer heat and humidity? Then delegate the task to a professional! Bay Breeze knows that your time is valuable and that washing your vehicle or servicing your vehicles maintenance needs shouldn’t take all day
With eight Bay Breeze Car Wash & Lube locations throughout Tampa Bay, there’s no reason to have a dirty vehicle, especially now that its flagship store in New Tampa has added an express car wash option complete with membership packages like those offered at the other locations. “This is a feature that we’ve been asked about for years which is finally here,” says Scott Barone, VP of Operations. “This is an exterior-only wash. Before, you had to exit your vehicle and pay inside. We now have a system that lets our express car wash only customers remain in the vehicle, and we’ll have you out in about three minutes or less once the process starts.
To make the car washing experience even faster and more convenient, Bay Breeze offers several membership packages. Using radio-frequency identification technology, Bay Breeze attaches a sticker to a car’s windshield that enables it to identify a customer’s membership level and eliminates the inconvenience of getting out to pay at each visit.
“Customers make one low monthly payment, and then can come back as often as they want,” Barone said. “Plus, our memberships are good at all 5 Tampa locations, and will soon be good at all locations company wide.”
Bay Breeze is continually upgrading technology to provide customers with the industry’s best advances.
“We have top-of-the-line car washing equipment,” said Barone. “It is the safest equipment in the industry for washing vehicles.”
“Old technology uses a cloth material that sometimes traps particles” Barone explains. “But nothing sticks to the Enviro Soft foam we use today — it’s the best stuff on the market.”
In addition to having the best equipment, Barone also attributes his company’s success to their five key metrics: quality, service, friendly & easy to do business with, clean/orderly and safety. “We strive to do these five things better than anyone else,” he said.
Since opening 14 years ago, Bay Breeze remains a family-owned and operated business.
Terrance Ramoutar, general manager of the full service location in New Tampa, worked for the company for eight years before taking a position in the corporate world. He returned last year, because he missed the appreciative family culture at Bay Breeze.
“I’ve worked in the corporate world where nobody really knows you,” Ramoutar said. “Being back here is more of everything: more family time, more love, more appreciation.”
As a long time Bay Breeze employee, Ramoutar has come to know many of the regulars, especially the full-service and lube customers.
“I have customers who have been here since I started, ” Ramoutar said. “This is not just a car wash — it’s a place where people share stories about kids growing up, about changes in their families and neighborhoods.”
In addition to its car wash services, Bay Breeze also offers lube services at its Lutz and New Tampa locations.
“From the time we start working on your car for a lube service, our goal is to have you out of here in 15 minutes or less,” Barone said. “We keep track of when you come into the facility, and have a system in place to track it.”
Bay Breeze recently broke ground on a new express wash location in Wesley Chapel at State Route 54 and Vandine Road, located across from Saddlebrook Resort. Barone expects this location to open by the end of the year.
(813) 615-1333 • www.baybreezecarwash.com.
