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Store numbers also multiplied as franchise opportunities opened.

SpeeDee swiftly grew into a quick lube and automotive tune-up service business and became SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up to reflect these new service additions. The first SpeeDee Oil Change opened in December 1980 in Metairie, Louisiana. During our most recent conversation, Yarusso updated us on some new developments, including the company’s recent acquisition of SpeeDee Oil Change and Auto Service from TBC Corporation. Ralph Yarusso is Grease Monkey’s Chief Operating Officer for Franchising, with whom Business View Magazine has spoken several times over the last few years. The modern Grease Monkey, founded in 1978, serves millions of car owners worldwide, each year, with its “less hassle, more hustle!” brand of customer experience. the nation’s largest, independent franchisor of automotive service centers, offering oil changes, preventative maintenance, and other car care services.

Today, the term “grease monkey” is more widely known as the corporate brand of Grease Monkey International, Inc. Years later, the term began being applied to mechanics, and more specifically to car mechanics, who like their factory forebears, were oftentimes stained with the various greases and oils needed to keep the component parts of an automobile running smoothly. The small boys whose job it was to crawl amid the tight spaces in the ceilings to do this dirty job seemed to resemble a bunch of grease-covered monkeys to the workers toiling below them.

The line shaft ran along the building’s ceiling and all of its elements had to be continually lubricated. Prior to the widespread use of electric motors small enough to be connected to each piece of machinery on a factory floor, power was distributed from a centralized steam engine to the individual work stations through the use of line shafts and their many component parts – gears, belts, axles, pulleys, and bearings. The term “grease monkey” is said to have originated in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution. Business View Magazine interviews Ralph Yarusso, Chief Operating Officer for Franchising for Grease Monkey, as part of our focus on best franchise companies.