Handle Your Business

Ted Bankert answers the door at his East Berlin home with bleary eyes and a weary smile, worn from the previous night’s work and tired of an uncooperative propane floor buffer.

“It works most of the time … until it doesn’t,” he sighs, before his wit allows an observation.

“Kinda like me,” Bankert says, laughing.

After 14 years of owning T&W Floor Care with his wife, Wendy, Bankert values an enduring sense of humor to ameliorate a trying business environment. And perhaps copious amounts of caffeine to help him bear his nocturnal work schedule?

“Not anymore,” Bankert answers, with weight concerns leading him to lose the once staple of soda.

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