Janitorial supplier opens showroom

J & J Janitorial Supply Inc., of Spokane, has opened a retail showroom for selling its cleaning products.

The business moved earlier this month from a downtown space to a 1,200-square-foot leased space at 6410 N. Monroe, where it has the showroom and a storage warehouse.

Co-owner Jay Tollefson, who started the business a year ago with his wife, Jennifer, says the company delivers janitorial supplies to customers in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint, Pullman, and other outlying areas.

Its clients include hospitals, medical and dental offices, retirement homes, day-care facilities, and schools.

"We've grown so fast that we saw a need to have a walk-in showroom," Tollefson says. "We've never been open to the public before now."

The business employs two part-time workers in addition to the Tollefsons. It sells about 60 products, including janitorial chemicals and supplies, brooms, mops, carpet cleaners, and laundry cleaning products. It also offers paper products, garbage bags, and microfiber products such as those used as cleaning pads for wood or tile floors.

From its showroom, the company plans to sell cleaning chemicals to the public as well as to janitorial and maid companies, Tollefson says. It will offer a service through which customers can have 32-ounce spray bottles refilled with cleaning supplies at the store for a cost savings, he says.

—Treva Lind

Coffee shop, deli opens in Greenacres

Siegels Enterprises LLC, of Greenacres, has purchased just over an acre of land along Barker Road, in Spokane Valley, and has developed a coffee shop and deli there in the first phase of what it expects will be a larger commercial development.

The 760-square-foot coffee shop and deli, which is operated by Siegels Enterprises and is doing business as Cozy Coffee, is located at 514 N. Barker, on the former location of Martin Asphalt Paving, and has been in operation for about three months, says manager Jessica McClaskey. The building has two drive-thru windows, seating for 20 people inside, and offers Wake Up Call coffee, energy drinks, and smoothies, as well as a wide array of food options, she says.

The shop employs six, including McClaskey.

Raymond Siegel, who owns Siegels Enterprises with his wife Debbie, says they also plan to develop a 120-unit mini storage facility and offer retail space, possibly for a salon or barber shop, on the property. The total cost of the development to date is around $700,000, he says.

—Audrey Danals

Sound Oxygen Service moves to larger space

Sound Oxygen Service, an Auburn, Wash.-based durable medical-equipment company, moved its Spokane-area office last month into 1,100 square feet of leased space at 400 S. Jefferson, just southeast of downtown Spokane.

The equipment provider previously had been located in a 450-square-foot space in the Spokane Business and Industrial Park, at 3808 N. Sullivan, in Spokane Valley.

Sound Oxygen provides respiratory-care equipment, such as that used to treat sleep apnea; stationary and portable oxygen concentrators; and nebulizers, which convert liquid medications into fine sprays to be inhaled.

The company provides equipment to about 300 patients here, says territory manager Doug Turner. It moved because it desired more office space and a more convenient location for many of its customers, he says.

—Audrey Danals

Consignment boutique moves, has new owner

Stacy Hendrickson, of Spokane, has bought Lollipop Lemondrop, a children's and women's used clothing consignment boutique, and has moved the business from Liberty Lake to 410 E. Holland, on Spokane's North Side.

Hendrickson says the business first opened about a year ago at 23129 E. Mission, in Liberty Lake, and was owned by Kelsy McHenry and Cindy Constance. Those two women decided to sell the business last December, Hendrickson says, and she re-opened it in a 1,500-square-foot leased space early last month.

Before purchasing Lollipop Lemondrop, Hendrickson had sold at the store hair accessories that she and her sister make. She also had sold clothes on consignment out of her home.

Hendrickson says the boutique sells name-brand, gently used children's and women's clothing, including maternity wear. She says the business keeps 50 percent of the proceeds from the items sold there, and the other half goes to the items' seller.

Consignment sellers can drop off items at any time during regular business hours and don't need to make an appointment, Hendrickson adds.

In addition to consignment clothing, Hendrickson says Lollipop Lemondrop also sells home decor and locally-made gift items.

The shop has one part-time employee in addition to its owner.

—Chey Scott

Smart Smoke opens outlet on South Hill


Spokane Valley-based electronic cigarette maker Smart Smoke Inc. has opened an outlet on Spokane's South Hill, its sixth store overall.

Josh Jamerson, the company's president and CEO, says the store is located in a 1,600-square-foot retail space at 3209 E. 57th, though the company is using only about 600 square feet of space there.

The store employs four people—two new hires and two who previously worked at other outlets.

The company has 30 employees in all.

Including the South Hill location, Smart Smoke has five stores in the Spokane area and one in Coeur d'Alene. Jamerson says the company also has a growing wholesale division that distributes to convenience stores and supermarkets throughout Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The wholesale operation operates out of the company's headquarters, at 13412 E. Nora in Spokane Valley.

Used as an alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes contain a nicotine liquid that's warmed with a lithium-ion battery and turned into a vapor. When inhaled, the vapor gives a user a similar sensation to smoking a cigarette. Also, the devices are shaped like cigarettes.

—Linn Parish

Second Roger's eatery to open in Lake City

Coeur d'Alene restaurateurs Mark and Nicole Randolph plan to open their second restaurant in the Lake City this month.

The restaurant, to be located at 155 W. Neider, will be named Roger's Burgers, says Mark Randolph. The opening date tentatively is scheduled for April 23.

The new restaurant will occupy 2,800 square feet of space at the former Cafe Chulo location, near the Kmart store in north Coeur d'Alene. Randolph says it will have 15 to 20 employees, with indoor seating for up to 64 people and a drive-thru window.

The Randolphs also own Roger's Ice Cream & Burgers, at 1224 E. Sherman, just east of downtown Coeur d'Alene.

While the Sherman store had been a drive-in ice cream stand long before the Randolphs bought the business in 2009, the Neider store won't serve hand-scooped ice cream, Randolph says. It will, however, serve milkshakes, he says.

Randolph says the new restaurant will focus on a food menu that the couple has developed at the Sherman Avenue location. It will include hamburgers and cheeseburgers of various sizes ranging in price from $2.25 to $6.75. The menu also will feature grilled-cheese sandwiches, turkey burgers, and garden burgers.

—Mike McLean