THE BEST BARBERSHOP CUSTOMER OF ALL TIME

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

If you haven’t had a chance to read our article, “Barbershop Bonanza: The World’s Most Expensive Haircut,” we suggest you do so – when a man pays $23,000 for a haircut, it’s a fairly big story (especially when you run a barbershop franchise business like we do!).

The man in question is the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaula. Lucky for us, we only have to type it, not pronounce it.

We appreciate the Sultan, because he’s a man of loyalty. When he couldn’t make it to London to get his hair cut by the barber who had been attending to him for 16 years, he brought the barber – Ken Modestou – to him (speaking of loyalty, we’re hoping Ken was able to reschedule all his other customers’ appointments for that week).

But enough about Ken. Let’s find out a little bit more about Mr. $23,000 Haircut – the Sultan himself.

A few fun facts:

• He’s worth over 20 billion dollars
• He owns over 100 Rolls Royces
• He also owns 232 Mercedes-Benzes, 224 Ferraris, 245 Bentleys, 150 BMWs, 165 Jaguars, 125 Porsches, and 20 Lamborghinis.
• He’s married to a woman 33 years younger than him. Oh, and another woman too.
• He owns a Boeing 747-400 furnished with gold plated furniture.
• He operates a $3 billion theme park (no word on whether the Tilt-A-Whirl is gold-plated, but thanks for asking).
• His home has 1788 bedrooms, 257 bathrooms, and a floor area of 2,152,782 square feet. Sad to say, it’s only the second largest palace in the world, after the Beijing Imperial Palace.

What the Sultan is probably most famous for – or infamous, to be more accurate – is paying a truckload of money to have seven beauty queens – including two Miss USAs, one Miss Teen USA and the runner-up for Miss United Kingdom – shipped over to Brunei for a “modeling job.” This did not go well, and one of the Miss USA’s, after being held captive there for over a month, smuggled a note to the U.S. Embassy, which basically read, “GET ME OUT OF HERE.”

So, Ken the barber, consider yourself lucky that you got your 23 grand and a plane ticket back to London. And we’ll certainly think twice before we accept one of the Sultan’s very, very over-generous offers to visit.

If you can’t afford to spend $23,000 on a haircut, well, guess what? You can get “The Best Haircut and Straight-Razor Shave You’ve Ever Had, or it’s Free™!” at any Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club® location for a lot less. And we mean, a LOT less.

Find out more about us and our franchise business opportunities at http://www.kennedysbarberclub.com.

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