Marshall and his daughter Laura, who is the “new face” of the business, are in the process of contacting clients to organise appointments.“I have a couple of pages full of people wanting to get back in. Everybody, hopefully, will be catered for equally in the best possible way. But we have preference bookings a little bit, and our very best clients will get those priority bookings,” he explains.
He adds: “We still have to cover our rent, and our utility bills are still coming in, not to the same extent, but obviously rent has to be paid unless you can negotiate with your landlord. I have yet to sit down with my landlord but hopefully he will be kind to us.” Concerns about the economy and an oncoming recession are prevalent but Marshall says the salon experience “is more than just getting a haircut” and that it is an industry that “does well in recession time”.