DAYTON — Many hair salon and barber shop owners are working to sort out schedules for their customers while keeping their employees safe.
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While many are happy for the ability to get their hair done, customers will be seeing many changes.
Waiting rooms may look different or be outside. There is also the possibility that clients will be asked to wait for a call to come in and get started.
Esther Laveck owns Salon 937 which is set to reopen May 15.
“The phones have been ringing off the hook since 10 minutes after the announcement, while DeWine was still talking,” Jason Lavek, husband and manager said.
They're working to make certain customers stay healthy once inside by limiting the number of people in the building, cleaning more often and spacing out appointments.
The Lavecks have even bought sticky masks for customers that don’t have to be looped over the ears to make hair cutting with a mask simpler.
Jim Olson owns The Salon on Rahn and day Spa, and has been spending his shutdown time making plans and preparations in a COVID world.
“Plexiglas barriers between stations, which are already six feet apart but we thought let’s go the extra mile,” Olson told News Center 7s Mike Campbell.
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He says he has 44 independent contractors that rent their space and most are anxious to be back to work.
"We want to dot the I, we want to cross the T so when the next person comes in, we know they are like the first person that sat there that day."
Bigger salons that have massage therapists will not have those workers available, as that has not yet been approved by the governor and state board, but hairdressers and barbers are all preparing to cut and style again, a week from today.
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