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                                                                    Exhibit 10.1

                            RESTRICTED UNIT AGREEMENT

         This Restricted Unit Agreement (the "Agreement"), made this 28th day of
February, 2000, by and among SpinCycle, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), E-Wash, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns
("E-Wash"), E-Wash, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its
successors and assigns ("Limited"), and ________________________, an employee of
the Company (hereinafter called the "Employee");

                              W I T N E S S E T H:

         WHEREAS, E-Wash, as of the date hereof, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Company; and

         WHEREAS, Limited, as of the date hereof, is a wholly-owned subsidiary
of E-Wash; and

         WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has determined it to be
in the best interest of the Company to issue restricted units in Limited to
certain key executives of the Company in order to provide such executives which
an additional stake in the growth and prosperity of Limited and to encourage
them to continue serving the Company; and

         WHEREAS, the issuance of such units is subject to the terms and
conditions as set forth in this Agreement.

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
of the parties hereto, it is agreed as follows:

1. Issuance of Units. Subject to the provisions of Section 11 hereof, Limited
hereby issues to the Employee and the Employee accepts _______ Units (the
"Units") of Limited, subject to the restrictions, terms and conditions set forth
in this Agreement. In exchange for such Units, the Employee shall or has
contributed to the capital of Limited the amount set forth on Exhibit A of the
Limited Liability Company Agreement of Limited opposite the Employee's name.

2.

3. Restrictions. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Limited Liability Company
Agreement of Limited, while any Units are subject to the forfeiture provisions
described in Section 4 below (the "Restricted Units"), the Employee may not
directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise, voluntarily or
involuntarily, anticipate, alienate, attach, sell, assign, pledge, encumber,
charge or otherwise transfer any Restricted Units.

4.

5. Award Date. The effective date of issuance of the Units to the Employee (the
"Award Date") shall be February 28, 2000.
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6. Restrictions and Restricted Period.

7.

8. (a) Units shall be issued in the name of the Employee upon the execution by
the Employee of this Agreement, and shall be evidenced on the books and records
of Limited. One-third of the Units issued herein shall be free of any transfer
or forfeiture restrictions set forth in Sections 2 and 4 of this Agreement as of
the Award Date.

9.

10. (b) If the Employee terminates service with the Company, or the Company
terminates the service of the Employee for any reason whatsoever prior to the
first anniversary of the Award Date, two-thirds of the Units issued to the
Employee herein shall be forfeited and void, and the cash capital contribution
paid by the Employee in respect of such forfeited Restricted Units shall be
returned to the Employee. If the Employee is in the employ of the Company on the
first anniversary of the award date, an additional one-third of the Units
granted to the Employee herein shall be free of all restrictions contained in
this Agreement.

11.

12. (c) If the Employee terminates service with the Company, or the Company
terminates the service of the Employee for any reason whatsoever after the first
anniversary of the Award Date but prior to the second anniversary of the Award
Date, one-third of the Units shall be forfeited and void, and the cash capital
contribution paid by the Employee in respect of such forfeited Restricted Units
shall be returned to the Employee. If the Employee is in the employ of the
Company on the second anniversary of the Award Date, all restrictions with
respect to all Units covered by this Agreement shall lapse.

13.

14. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4, all
forfeiture and transfer restrictions with respect to the Units (other than as
provided in Section 9 hereof) shall lapse (i) upon the death or permanent and
total disability of the Employee; (ii) if the Company exercises its "Bring-Along
Rights" described in Section 7 hereof; or (iii) if there is a "Change in
Control."

15.

16. A "Change in Control" shall mean:

17.

                           (i) The acquisition by any individual, entity or
         group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the
         Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act")) of the
         beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated
         under the 1934 Act) of 50% or more of the combined voting power of all
         of the then outstanding voting classes or series of units of Limited
         (the "Outstanding Voting Units"); provided, however, that the following
         acquisitions shall not constitute a Change of Control: (A) any
         acquisition directly from Limited or any of its subsidiaries, (B) any
         acquisition by Limited or any of its subsidiaries, (C) any acquisition
         by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained
         by Limited or any of its subsidiaries, (D) any acquisition by any
         corporation with respect to which, following such acquisition, more
         than 50% of, respectively, the then outstanding shares of common stock
         of such corporation and the combined voting power of the then
         outstanding voting securities of such corporation entitled to vote
         generally in the election of directors is then beneficially owned,
         directly or indirectly, by individuals, entities or groups who were the
         beneficial owners, respectively, of at least 50% of the Outstanding
         Voting Units

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         immediately prior to such acquisition in substantially the same
         proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such acquisition,
         of the Outstanding Voting Units, or (E) the acquisition of Outstanding
         Voting Units by any individual, entity or group which on the Award Date
         owned 50% or more of the Outstanding Voting Units;

                           (ii) Approval by the holders of a majority of the
         Units of Limited of a reorganization, merger or consolidation, in each
         case, with respect to which all or substantially all of the individuals
         and entities who were the beneficial owners, respectively, of the
         Outstanding Voting Units immediately prior to such reorganization,
         merger or consolidation do not, following such reorganization, merger
         or consolidation, beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than
         50% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting
         securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as
         the case may be, of the corporation resulting from or surviving such
         reorganization, merger or consolidation in substantially the same
         proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such
         reorganization, merger or consolidation, of the Outstanding Voting
         Units; or

                           (iii) Approval by the requisite vote of the
         shareholders of E-Wash of (A) a complete liquidation or dissolution of
         Limited or (B) the sale or other disposition of all or substantially
         all of the assets of Limited other than to a corporation, with respect
         to which following such sale or other disposition, more than 50% of the
         then outstanding shares of common stock of such company and the
         combined voting power for the then outstanding voting securities of
         such company entitled to vote is then beneficially owned, directly or
         indirectly, by all or substantially all of the individuals and entities
         who were the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Voting Units
         immediately prior to such sale or other disposition in substantially
         the same proportion as their ownership, immediately prior to such sale
         or other disposition, of the Outstanding Voting Units.

                  (e) For the purpose of this Section 4, a transfer of
employment from the Company to E-Wash or Limited shall not be deemed a
termination of employment with the Company.

1. Custody of Restricted Units; Tax Withholding; Voting and Dividends.

2.

3. (a) Restricted Units. The Restricted Units will be registered in the name of
the Employee. All indicia of ownership representing Restricted Units shall be
retained by the Company.

4.

5. (b) Voting Rights. The Employee will have all rights of a member of Limited
with respect to voting of the Restricted Units.

6. (c) Distributions. All distributions of profits and losses, cash flow and
capital interests made with respect to the Restricted Units shall, with respect
to record dates on or after the Award Date, be distributed to the Employee in
accordance with the Limited Liability Company Agreement of E-Wash, LLC, as
amended from time to time (the "Operating Agreement").

7.

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8. Piggyback Registration Rights. In the event that as a result of a merger or
other reorganization of Limited such that the Employee's Units are exchanged for
shares of stock of E-Wash, E-Wash grants to the Employee the following
registration rights with respect to such E-Wash shares:

9.
                  (a) (i) Incidental Rights. If at any time after six months
         after the completion of an underwritten initial public offering by
         E-Wash on a firm commitment basis, E-Wash proposes to register, on any
         form which may be used for the registration of its common stock, other
         than Forms S-4 or S-8 (or any successor or similar forms then in
         effect), any of its securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
         amended (the "Securities Act"), whether or not pursuant to registration
         rights granted to other holders of its securities and whether or not
         for sale for its own account, in a manner which would permit
         registration of common stock for sale to the public under the
         Securities Act, E-Wash will each such time give written notice to the
         Employee of its intention to do so and of Employee's rights under this
         Section 6; such notice to be given to Employee at least twenty (20)
         days prior to the initial filing of such proposed registration
         statement. Upon the written request of the Employee made within fifteen
         (15) days after the giving of any such notice (which request shall
         specify the number of shares intended to be disposed of by the Employee
         and the intended method or methods of disposition thereof), E-Wash will
         use its reasonable efforts to effect the registration under the
         Securities Act of the "Registerable Amount" (as defined in 6(b) hereof)
         of Common Stock which E-Wash has been so requested to register by the
         Employee, to the extent necessary to permit the disposition (in
         accordance with the intended methods thereof as aforesaid) of the
         common stock so to be registered. Promptly upon notification to E-Wash
         from the managing underwriter of the price at which the shares of
         common stock requested to be registered pursuant to this Section 6 are
         to be sold, E-Wash shall advise the Employee of such price, and if such
         price is below the price which Employee shall have indicated to be
         acceptable to the Employee, the Employee shall then have the right to
         withdraw its request to have its shares included in such registration
         statement.

                           (ii) Not Deemed a Demand Registration. No
         registration effected pursuant to this Section 6 shall be deemed to be
         a demand registration right. Any registration rights granted hereunder
         shall be subordinate to any demand registration rights hereafter
         granted by E-Wash to others.

                           (iii) Holdback. If E-Wash previously shall have
         received a request for registration from a shareholder having demand
         registration rights or under this Section 6, and if such previous
         registration shall not have been withdrawn or abandoned, E-Wash will
         not be required to effect any registration of any of its securities
         under the Securities Act, whether or not for sale for its own account,
         until a period of ninety (90) days shall have elapsed from the
         effective date of such previous registration.

                           (iv) Discontinuance. Notwithstanding anything to the
         contrary in this Section 6, E-Wash shall have the right to discontinue
         any registration under this Section 6 at any time prior to the
         effective date of such registration, if the registration of other
         securities giving rise to such registration under this Section 6 is
         discontinued; but no such

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         discontinuation shall preclude an immediate or subsequent request for
         registration pursuant to this Section 6.

                           (v) Termination of Piggyback Rights. The provisions
         of this Section 6 shall expire as to any shares at such time as the
         Employee may sell shares in E-Wash without the need for registration
         under the federal securities laws.

                  (b) Registerable Amount. For the purpose of this Section 6,
the "Registerable Amount" means the maximum number of shares of common stock of
E-Wash issued to the Employee in exchange for the Units granted under this
Agreement which the Employee is eligible to sell in any registration covered by
this Section 6. The Registerable Amount is expressed as a fraction, the
numerator of which will be the number of shares issued to Employee in exchange
for the Units granted under this Agreement and held by the Employee at the time
of the public registration and the denominator of which shall be the number of
shares of such common stock held by other holders of common stock having
registration rights pari passu with the Employee's rights. If the registration
is an underwritten registration, and the managing underwriter gives written
notice to E-Wash that in its reasonable opinion the number of shares of common
stock of E-Wash to be included in the registration should be less than the
aggregate number of shares of common stock that E-Wash, the Employee and all
other eligible holders of such common stock have proposed to include in such
registration, then E-Wash shall have first priority to include in such
registration all shares of common stock it proposes to register. If such amount
does not exceed the maximum number of shares which the underwriter has
reasonably determined can be registered in the offering, then the remaining
number of shares (the "Available Amount") shall be allocated among the Employee
and the other holders of common stock proposing to register securities in the
offering by multiplying the Available Amount by a fraction, the numerator of
which shall be the number of shares each of the eligible participants owns and
the denominator of which is the total number of shares owned by all eligible
participants. E-Wash shall have the exclusive right to select the managing
underwriters in such registration. For the purposes of this paragraph (b), if
there is no underwriter for an offering, then the determinations to be
reasonably made by the managing underwriter hereunder shall be made by the
E-Wash board of directors.

                  (c) Hold-back Agreements. The Employee agrees, if so required
by the managing underwriter, not to effect any public sale or distribution of
securities of E-Wash of the same class as the securities included in such
registration statement, during the seven (7) days prior to the date on which any
underwritten registration has become effective and the one-hundred eighty (180)
days (or such longer period as shall have been agreed to by E-Wash and the
managing underwriters with respect to such registration statement) thereafter,
except as part of such underwritten registration. E-Wash agrees not to effect
any public sale or distribution of its equity securities or securities
convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for any of such securities
during the seven (7) days prior to and ninety (90) days after any underwritten
registration has become effective, except as part of such underwritten
registration.

                  (d) Public Offering by Limited. All rights granted to Employee
in this Section 6 shall be effective with respect to Limited in the event that
Limited becomes a publicly traded company rather than E-Wash.

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1. Bring-Along Right. For so long as the Company owns at least 33.33% of E-Wash
or Limited, if the Company or E-Wash proposes to make a bona fide sale in a
private offering of all of its E-Wash shares or of Limited units, the Company
and/or E-Wash shall have the right (the "Bring-Along Right"), but not the
obligation, exercisable upon 15 days' prior written notice, to require the
Employee to sell his Units to such third party upon terms no less favorable to
the Employee than those that apply to the Company or E-Wash with respect to such
third party sale. In such case, so long as the Employee has not been terminated
immediately prior to the closing of the proposed sale, all restrictions
contained in Sections 2 and 4 applicable to any Restricted Units shall lapse.
The Employee hereby agrees to cooperate with the Company or E-Wash and to take
any and all action reasonably required in connection with the consummation of
such third party sale. Without limiting the foregoing, at the closing of any
sale under this Section, the Employee shall represent and warrant that he is the
beneficial owner of such Units free and clear of any liens or encumbrances with
full power and authority to transfer such shares.

2.

3. Tag-Along Right. For so long as the Company owns at least 33.33% of E-Wash or
Limited, in the event that the Company or E-Wash (the "Purchase Offer
Recipient") shall receive a bona fide offer to purchase less than all shares of
E-Wash or Limited units (a "Purchase Offer"), the Purchase Offer Recipient shall
either decline such Purchase Offer or, if the Purchase Offer Recipient
determines to accept such Purchase Offer, then, prior to accepting any Purchase
Offer, arrange for the proposed purchaser to make, in addition to the Purchase
Offer, a bona fide offer to purchase from the Employee, and all other similarly
situated persons, upon the same terms as the Purchase Offer, units of Limited
owned by such parties, including the Employee (the "Tag Along Rights") in the
proportion and otherwise as described in the second succeeding sentence (the
"Unit Purchase Offer"). In the event a Unit Purchase Offer is made, the Purchase
Offer Recipient shall give the Employee written notice thereof (the "Notice")
specifying (i) the number of Units that the Employee may sell, and (ii) the
terms (including the price and the proposed date of consummation thereof) of
such Unit Purchase Offer. Upon receipt of the Notice, the Employee shall have
the right to sell that number of Units owned by him and which are not then
Restricted Units equal to (A) the product of (a) the total number of Limited
units proposed to be purchased in the Purchase Offer, the Unit Purchase Offer
and similar offers being made to other members of Limited concurrently with the
Purchase Offer, and (b) a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number
of Tag-Along Units (as defined below) owned by the Employee and the denominator
of which shall be the number of shares of Limited units owned by the Purchase
Offer Recipient plus the number of shares of Tag-Along Units owned by all
members electing to participate in such sale. For purposes of the foregoing,
"Tag-Along Units" shall mean all units of Limited outstanding on the date of the
Sale. The Tag-Along Right may be exercised by the Employee by delivery, not
later than 5 days after receipt of the Notice, of a written notice (the
"Tag-Along Notice") to the Purchase Offer Recipient, which shall state the
maximum number of Units which are not Restricted Units that the Employee wishes
to include in such sale to the purchaser. The Employee shall participate in any
purchase specified in the Notice on the terms set forth therein (or on terms no
less favorable to the Employee) and as provided in the Tag-Along Notice during
the 90-day period following the date of the Notice. Any purchases following such
90-day period shall require a new Notice.

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1. Restrictions in Operating Agreement. The rights and obligations of the
Employee as a member of Limited and the restrictions and rights as a holder of
Units, including transfer restrictions, are further governed by the terms of the
Operating Agreement.

1. Effect of Reclassification, etc., of Units. In the event of reclassification,
recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation or combination such that
the holders of Units receive a different security in exchange for their Units,
then notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2, hereof, the Employee may
exchange his Units for shares of the same class of security which other holders
of Limited's Units receive, and the rights, restrictions, terms and conditions
of this Agreement shall apply to the securities received by the Employee to the
same extent as provided herein with respect to the Units.

2.

3. Shareholder Approval. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, the issuance of Units contained herein is subject to the approval
within 12 months of the Award Date by the holders of the requisite majorities of
all three classes of preferred stock of the Company as required in the
agreements relating to the purchase of Series A, B and C Convertible Preferred
Stock in the Company, as those agreements have been amended to date. In the
event that such shareholder approval is not obtained, the issuance of Units
shall be forfeited on the first anniversary of the Award Date. In case of
forfeiture, the capital cash contribution paid by the Employee for the Units
shall be returned to the Employee.

4.

5. Entire Understanding. This Agreement constitutes the entire understanding
between the parties relating to the matters described herein (other than
Limited's Limited Liability Company Agreement which is incorporated herein by
this reference) and supercedes and cancels all prior written and oral
understandings and agreements with respect to such matters.

6.

7. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
of the employees, executors, administrators, legal representatives, heirs and
legatees of the Employee and the successors and assigns of the Company.

8.

9. Employment Rights. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall confer upon
Employee any right with respect to the continuance of employment by the Company
or any related company, nor interfere in any way with the right of the Company
or any related company to terminate the Employee's employment at any time for
any reason.

10.

11. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and interpreted,
construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona.

12.

13.

14. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company, E-Wash, Limited, and the Employee have
caused this Restricted Unit Agreement to be executed as of the day and year
first above written.

15.

16.

17. SPINCYCLE, INC.

18.

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19.                                          By /s/ Peter Ax

20.

21.

22.                                          E-WASH, INC.
23.

24.                                          By /s/ Peter Ax
25.
26.

27.                                          E-WASH, LLC
28.

29.                                          By /s/ Peter Ax
30.
31.

32.                                          EMPLOYEE:
33.
34.
35.                                          Print Name:
36.
37.      263777.5

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