dongal

I am looking at a salon to buy and it does not have a centralized timing system like tmax. The customer sets their own timer.

I am greatly concerned about abuse of time and how to get these people OUT of the room when their time is up.

How do you handle it?

don-gal

geminitanning

I'm pretty sure that's not even legal in some states. My suggestion would be get a timer system set up! You don't want to be held responsible for someone that you think should tan for 10 minutes, and then sets their own bed for 20 minutes, and burns to a crisp. That's a recipe for disaster!!!!

dongal

Apparently it's legal in my state because the lady I am possibly buying the salon from has been running it this way for the three years that she has owned it.

She says she never has a problem, but I am wondering how, when the place is jam packed, she can keep track of who is where, and for how long.

don-gal

Dee2711

^^^The short answer is that you can't. People being People will take advantage. At the very least you should at least think about installing token meters.

geminitanning

Just because that's the way she's done it, doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. I would NEVER allow a customer in a room with a tanning bed that they have the ability to change the timer. NEVER.

movieking

Professional tanning salons in unregulated states should still operate as though they are regulated. Doing otherwise is bad for the industry and a big part of the problems this industry keeps getting hit with.

I'd be careful about buying a salon that is not already operated professionally. It will make your job much harder when you try to put new policies and procedures in place that should have been done all along.