Test run: Bärbel Rothkegel shows together with Matthias Seiffert-Bernsmann how a haircut with an FFP-2 mask works.
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The announced reopening of the hairdressing salons from March 1st is a source of great joy for owners, employees and customers.
Hamm – “A regular customer even comes from Wolfsburg, he signed up today!” Master hairdresser Matthias Seiffert-Bernsmann is looking forward to March 1st with double pleasure. Because the reopening of the hairdressing shops goes hand in hand with a company birthday. His cross-section salon on Kamener Strasse opened 15 years ago. “I’ll celebrate it like I did on March 1st, 2006 – i will work all day“, Says the 47-year-old Seiffert-Bernsmann, who was able to identify regular customers among the many telephone registrations, whose hair he had already cut as a trainee.
Together with his team of three, he prepared the appointment list for the time after the lockdown in the salon on Thursday. “As a team, we always work hand in hand. Our anticipation is great. ”And Seiffert-Bernsmann, a master of his trade since 2007, is also grateful that customers have remained loyal to him.
Overtime after the salons reopen
His colleague Sait Bacak experiences the rush to the hairdressing appointments on all channels. Yesterday, it wasn’t just the phones that rang in his Marianne and Hairstyling Team salons in Bockum-Hövel. The appointment requests also came via e-mail, the messenger on his smartphone and on the answering machine. “We are eager to be able to work again“, Says the hairdresser, who already did his apprenticeship in the Marianne salon and kept the name with a view to the regular customers in consultation with his former boss.
He is particularly pleased that his seven employees are pulling along to cope with the first rush for the appointments. “We will the Extend daily opening times by one or two hours and also open on Mondays, ”said Bacak, who said goodbye to the last customer at 11:55 pm on December 15, the last opening day. While listening to the answering machine, the 32-year-old family man noticed that the older customers in particular are interested in a quick appointment. Sait Bacak had optimistically prepared the contact tracing sheets, on which customers have to sign up, for February 22nd. “Now I’ll be using it on March 1st,” he is happy that the hairdressers’ opening has not been postponed any further.
Another rush to hairdressers
Many of Nicole Schaeffer’s customers also have the smartphone number of the master hairdresser who runs her salon on Hammer Straße. The rush began shortly after the hairdresser opening on March 1st was announced in the press conference from Berlin. “I sat on the phone until midnight,” reports the 53-year-old. “And already in the morning at six o’clock further requested appointments arrived. “Early on, she hurried to her shop on Hammer Strasse to put up the registration lists. For them it is not a big change, if you disregard the number of inquiries: “We also work with fixed dates in normal operation.”
With her team of six, Nicole Schaeffer is preparing for the customers – she had already implemented her own, sophisticated hygiene concept before the closure in December. “Every customer is picked up at the door, a fever is measured and then the hands and then the hair are washed,” she says. It also has partitions between the operator stations – if, for example, a hair dryer should force aerosols through the air. Schaeffer’s customers are also experiencing a new start because she has made changes in the shop and is currently being repainted. As in Salon Schaeffer, the Hygiene measures strictly implemented – the operator station is disinfected after each customer.
Sait Bacak points out that in addition to organizing the registrations for his team over the next few days, the Preparation and implementation of protective measures according to the requirements of the professional association. Matthias Seiffert-Bernsmann noticed that a further regulation now requires FFP2 or surgical masks. The following applies to all callers who want to get an appointment: It makes sense to find out about the rules before visiting the hairdresser.
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