Barbershops, salons swamped after nearly 3-month COVID shutdown thelondoner.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thelondoner.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Few workplaces will be as busy this week as Salon Cyan on Dundas Street in London.
“We are booked to the max. The girls are pulling 12-hour shifts,” said Kasia Fevens, the hair salon’s manager.
The crush of customers comes after Ontario allowed businesses offering personal-grooming services – such as hair salons, beauty parlors and barber shops – to reopen Wednesday, with restrictions, as the province moved into the second phase of its reopening from a two-month spring shutdown.
Other changes include increased capacity at some retail stores and allowing six people at a table for outdoor dining, but gyms remain closed for indoor training and exercise.
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Author of the article: Norman De Bono, Dan Brown
Publishing date: Apr 02, 2021 • 1 week ago • 3 minute read • Johnny Vasquez, left, and his wife Heidy Hernandez, owners of Soho s Tacos and Tequila Bar and Grill on South Street in London, hope they will get through a four-week shutdown announced Thursday that will delay the opening of their new restaurant. “I have big hopes for this place. I hope we can get through this, Hernandez said Thursday. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press)
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Though restaurant owners and operators of hair salons and gyms were bracing for bad news Thursday, the news they will be closed for at least four weeks during a provincewide COVID-19 shutdown still hit hard. Reporters Norman De Bono and Dan Brown caught up with three business owners as they digested the latest curveball thrown against them during the pandemic.