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Cintas Recognizes Three Generations of Atlanta-area Service Sales Representatives

By: Cintas Corporation via Business Wire

June 16, 2023 at 15:00 PM EDT

Three generations of the Cash family have pursued same profession, with a father-son duo currently serving Atlanta-area Cintas customers

Working as a Service Sales Representative – commonly called an SSR – runs in the Cash family.

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David Cash is Service Sales Representative for Cintas based out of the company's Lawrenceville, Ga., Rental location. He is the second of three generations of Cash family members to work for the company - including his father and his son. David recently celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company. (Photo: Business Wire)

Three generations of Cashes – Deward, David and Ryan – have dedicated their careers in the business services industry in what has become a family affair at Cintas Corporation (Nasdaq: CTAS).

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Deward Cash, who passed in 2000, was the first in the industry.

His son David celebrated 50 years of service in September with a company that started as National Linen Service, became G&K Services and is now Cintas. David’s son Ryan, Deward’s grandson, has logged a combined 12-plus years at G&K and Cintas.

David and Ryan Cash work out of Location 258 in Lawrenceville, Ga.

“Everybody is really proud of us,” Ryan Cash said. “I can’t really remember how many years my grandfather was in – 25 or 30, something like that – and then of course Dad going to 50 this year was crazy. We’re really proud and happy that he’s able to still work and be able to be healthy. So it’s pretty cool for our family.”

By the time David Cash finished his service in the U.S. Air Force, Deward was well into his career. He encouraged David to give the profession some thought based on its benefits: independence, stability, customer interaction and financial potential.

“Dad, he was a big influence on me as far as getting into the industry,” David Cash said.

His guidance led to a career for his son. In 1972, David Cash began his career at National Linen, which was acquired by G&K in 1997. He spent 44.5 of his 50 years in the industry before Cintas acquired G&K in 2017.

In total, Deward and David spent seven years at co-workers at National Linen and G&K.

Long before he retired at age 62, Deward Cash’s work ethic had a lasting impact on his family. David Cash said his father – the father of four boys – drilled home accountability and follow-through. That mindset stayed with David Cash as an adult, giving him an even greater appreciation for his dad and providing a blueprint for parenting his son.

“I hope that I’ve planted some good seeds in Ryan to help him in his journey with Cintas in future years and that he’ll stick with it,” David said. “And hopefully it will benefit him and his family both.”

Ryan was a University of Georgia student when he began working at G&K during summer and winter breaks. He liked the job so much that he “just kind of grew into it,” first at the plant and then helping on routes.

After college, Ryan officially followed his father into the business full-time and became a third-generation route driver. Although their routes differed at G&K, Ryan always enjoyed bumping into his dad in the mornings or evenings at the workplace.

“We’d just say, ‘Hey, how are you? Doing OK? How was it out on the route today?’ And stuff like that. It was good, it was a lot of fun. Just learning a little bit every day from him,” said Ryan Cash, who spent 6.5 years at G&K and has been with Cintas for almost six years.

Times have changed since David Cash started his career. SSRs used to drive territory-based routes, which meant David ran two weekly trips into downtown Atlanta. Reps also drove their trucks home, kept hard copies of customers’ orders and carried far more cash and checks than David preferred.

As technology has started streamlining work processes to make the SSRs’ jobs more dynamic, David Cash has found himself learning a thing or two from his son.

“Sometimes I’m really not tech savvy and he can help me on some things,” David Cash said. “I’m kind of old school, but if you show me one time, I got it.”

David and Ryan Cash share a zest for customer service and building relationships with people they see regularly.

The Cashes place great pride in being honest, dependable and accountable – three attributes that have strengthened their reputations at work among their fellow employee-partners and also their customers.

David noted that he aims to be a reliable partner for his customers, taking care of them with great service and identifying solutions to issues – like needing replacement garments or making sure repairs are made – before they may even notice.

“That way they don’t even see it. I just make sure the old garment is replaced in their delivery and they have a new garment. They don’t even know it sometimes. And then they’ll come back and say, ‘Hey, I appreciate you doing that.’ I love my good rapport with my customers,” David Cash said.

And a good rapport is a time-tested Cash family trait.

About Cintas Corporation

Cintas Corporation helps more than one million businesses of all types and sizes get Ready™ to open their doors with confidence every day by providing products and services that help keep their customers’ facilities and employees clean, safe, and looking their best. With offerings including uniforms, mats, mops, towels, restroom supplies, workplace water services, first aid and safety products, eye-wash stations, safety training, fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems and alarm service, Cintas helps customers get Ready for the Workday®. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Cintas is a publicly held Fortune 500 company traded over the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol CTAS and is a component of both the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and Nasdaq-100 Index.