Who owns Club Car Wash?
Data updated · May 24, 2026
Club Car Wash is owned by Bartels family (HPS / Sculptor debt). Founder-owned and rapidly expanding; growth financed with debt from HPS, Sculptor and others. It runs 268 Express Tunnel locations across 14 states.
The owner
Club Car Wash is owned by Bartels family (HPS / Sculptor debt) (founder-owned). Founder-owned and rapidly expanding; growth financed with debt from HPS, Sculptor and others.
Is Club Car Wash a franchise?
No — WashIndex finds no SBA franchise-loan activity under the Club Car Wash brand, so it operates as a company-owned chain rather than a franchise you can buy into. Ownership of the business sits with Bartels family (HPS / Sculptor debt), not individual franchisees.
About Club Car Wash ownership
Who owns Club Car Wash?
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How many locations does Club Car Wash have?
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How we determine this
WashIndex classifies ownership structure from data it can verify: franchise status from SBA loan records, acquisition signatures from customer-review text, and footprint from the per-location index. A specific corporate or private-equity owner is named only where it is publicly established — we do not infer or guess parent companies. Where ownership isn't disclosed, the page says so.
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