The Shave of Champions

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

We came across an interesting article today that mentioned two movie superheroes, Will “Hancock” Smith and Tobey “Spiderman” Maguire, and one real-life hero: Rudy “9/11″ Giuliani. Apparently, they’ve got something in common, besides having no fear.

What you might not think is the fact that they all know how to escape close shaves…yes actually, they love to get them. The old-fashioned way – in a barber chair.

For years, the number of classic licensed barbers has been on the decline. You remember them – the ones who gave you the great hot-towel-and-lather straight-razor shaves? Well, according to an article from Forbes this August , that kind of barbershop coming back into style – because, frankly, we think guys want to be guys again. They don’t want to hang out at upscale metro-sexual salons to get the right kind of “styling” and they don’t want to deal with cheap, strip-mall haircut franchises just to get a simple haircut.

And it’s also about what one Forbes reader posted online after he read their barbershop article, about how his wife gave him the barbershop treatment:

“My wife planned a birthday surprise about three years ago. She told me not to shave for about four days leading up to my birthday…I got a shave. I have been shaving since I was 14, and that was the first time anyone else shaved me, and it certainly has not been the last. I have given friends of mine the gift of a shave, and we have made a day of it. There is something about the way a straight-edge razor gives the perfect shave.”

Amen to that! That’s why we decided to start our exclusive barbershop franchise, Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club®. We missed the old shave-and-a-haircut experience, too – and we figured if we added all the modern extras, such as new grooming products, beverage service and other amenities, we’d have the perfect answer to today’s diminished barber businesses for men. As one guy put it in the Forbes article, “It’s a way for men to get groomed without doing the ‘walk of shame’ they’d have to do in a female salon.”

We love our new barbershop businesses and so do our customers. Explore our concept more at our website at www.kennedysbarberclub.com. There you can find out about our barbershop locations and also about franchise opportunities available for this exciting new idea. Kennedy’s combines the best of the past with what’s great about today – and, as the Forbes article makes clear, that’s something we all should want a piece of.

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