One Hour Martinizing

Don’t use your credit card here and double check your receipts. I only brought my dry cleaning here a handful of times and twice they had charged a wrong amount and I had to ask for a correction. Not a big deal. What is a big deal is the last time I came here my credit card had a fraudulent charge on it the next day. I figured it could be coincidence until the same thing happened to my husband a week later. We alerted the credit card companies and needless to say never went back.

This place engages in blatant GENDER-​PRICE DISCRIMINATION.
This establishment charges women customers the «blouse-​rate» for non-​dart/​cotton shirts/​unisex shirts.
When women that work here quote a service price, it’s the same price for men & women. Once and a while, the men (father) charges the equal and fair rate, other times the son wants to argue about how a «blouse» has to be hand ironed.

We’ve been going here for 20 years. I always find them reliable and competent. No complaints!

Their dry-​cleaning is fine, no complaints.
About their laundering: Two big problems: they use a scented starch and they don’t press the sleeve plackets on shirts.
Before I could wear my shirts, I would hang them for two days to rid them of the stench of perfume, and before wearing them, I had to press the sleeve plackets.
Their customer service is curt; the clerks (and even the owner, for that matter) never say «thank you.»
I took my business to the OHM franchise on University Avenue in Berkeley and I’m very satisfied with their work.

I like the one hour service but they completely stretch my sweater. It is 2 sizes bigger than what it was before comparing it to an exact sweater that I have in a different color. I should of just Febreze my sweater to death instead of taking it here. Bad mistake.
I would not come back.

We’ve used this establishment since moving to the neighborhood over 20 years ago and it’s always been safe and reliable. Plenty of close parking, too.

Good dry cleaner. Seems expensive but it’s by my house, so whatever. I had great experiences with a different «Martinizing» cleaner on Grand Ave in Oakland when I lived over there, so I thought this place would be similar. It’s not, but it’s where I go.
You should just go there, too.
And do like me when you get your stuff back and swear your sweaters feel just a wee-​bit greasy and smell like chemicals and vow to handwash from then on.
And then don’t think about it again until your sweaters start to smell like pits and you can either handwash like a loon or send them to One Hour Martinizing.

At my last dry cleaner, two of my shirts came back with buttons that looked like someone had tried to smoke them through a crack pipe. So there was no way I was sending my new Thomas Pink shirt there. I decided to give One Hour Martinizing a shot and things started off a little uncomfortably as they asked me what the stains were on my shirt and I had absolutely no idea. But, I guess it really didn’t matter because they cleaned that shirt up proper! And in their compacted waiting area, they even have water and coffee readily available for all their customers but believe me, I haven’t had to wait long enough to make use of it. I think I’ve found my new dry cleaner… and eventually they’ll stop asking me about all the mysterious stains.