Obviously, this isn't just any old Porta Potti. No, this is one of Phil Dunne's Presidential line of mobile Johns, elegant, expensive (around $60,000 each) and fit for a king, or a President. "We've even had them at the White House for the millennium event," says Dunne. "Quincy Jones kept dragging people to them saying, 'Oh my God, look at these bathrooms.' And Liz Taylor used one and said, 'I'll be back. Soon.' "
Dunne, 45, a native New Yorker transplanted to Texas when he was 17, is quick to point out that luxury loos are not his only business. Advanced Containment Systems, the Houston company he founded in 1988, also makes transportable decontamination facilities. But in 1995, when a mobile-toilet manufacturer tried to branch out into Dunne's main business, he says, "the competitiveness in me took hold."
Now, with more than $5 million a year in sales, his company dominates the carriage-trade commode business, selling to people like Dave Bandauski, president of Black Tie Services, a comfort-station supplier in Lockport, I11. "Many people," says Bandauski, who will provide 30 of Dunne's opulent outhouses, complete with attendants, at the Super Bowl, "say they are nicer than the bathrooms in their house."
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