Salon Details & Cleaning Tasks

 

Opening Tasks

  • Take the key out of the lockbox on the wall to the left of the mailbox. Open both Salon & Bridal space.

  • When you take the key out of the lock, place it in the break room on the key hook.

  • Turn on lights

  • Grab iPad from drawer & place it on desktop

  • Turn on Music through Sonos app, recommended Olive Grace playlist

  • Turn on towel warmers & wax pot (temp set at about ‘44’)

  • Make at least 5+ hot wet towels, add a drop of lavender oil or seasonal blend to each

  • Check messages on salon phone & relay to stylist if needed

  • Check your own email regularly, in case there are any client forms forwarded to you that need to be handled.

  • Put out laundry in back hallway, Tuesdays & Fridays

Daily Salon Responsibilities

  • Keep up with laundry in salon

  • Keep towel warmers full with towels

  • Check out clients & pre book appointments

  • Contact clients if you’re running behind

  • Return missed calls or texts

  • Pass messages to the appropriate stylist

  • Add needed or low supplies to white boards in cabinets

  • Display front (face) & move up retail products

  • Put tools away and clean up your station

  • Sweep your station and surrounding areas, in between clients

  • Maintain cleanliness in break room

  • Change water cooler if needed

  • Maintain color bar supplies, grab items for stocking in break room

  • Stock Items

    • Product bags & tissue paper

    • Refill business cards

    • Fill snack basket & coffee bar

    • Stock beverage fridge

    • Fill chocolates

    • Stock gum in drawer

    • Maintain candle

    • Keep flowers watered or throw away if dying

    • Fill hand sanitizers & alcohol bottles

    • Fill Hand soap

    • Stock paper towels & kleenex

    • Replace sink scrub brushes when torn

    • Keep an eye out on barbicide

    • Stock garbage bags - small & large

  • Check foils - rip & stock if needed

  • Fill or Replace, if needed

    • Shampoo & Conditioners

    • Developers

    • Lighteners

    • Gloves

In Between Clients Cleaning Tasks

  • Blow hair on floor with dryer for a thorough sweep

  • Wipe down mirror

  • Wipe down chair

  • Wipe tray & base

  • Remove hair from the shampoo bowl

  • Wipe shampoo bowl and shampoo chair

  • Submerge implements in barbicide, let sit for at least 10 minutes

Daily Cleaning Tasks

  • Wash color bowls & brushes

  • Wipe down shampoo bottles & back bar area

  • Wipe any color stains from color bar, cabinetry, trash bins, walls, floors

  • Move towels to the dirty laundry bags, set them in break room

  • Put away clean towels & capes

  • Check for dried implements and return to the station

  • Clean salon chair, base, and mat

  • Maintain cleanliness on the service desk

  • Vacuum rugs, if needed

Closing Tasks

  • Monday nights & Thursday nights: Make sure to bag up all the dirty laundry to have ready for the next morning to be put out for our laundry service.

  • Make sure to turn the wax pot off at night

  • Remove implements from Barbicide, allow to air dry

  • Take out garbage’s

    • Recycling Dumpster to the left of the backdoor

    • Garbage Dumpster to the right of the backdoor

    • DO NOT dispose of any garbage in the dumpster by Hogs & Kisses, that is not our dumpster

  • Sweep salon

  • Wipe down counters & shampoo bowls

  • Check, rip, & stock foils for the next day

  • Stock dry towel warmer

  • Take the key off the hook in the break room, and lock both doors before you leave.

  • Put the key back into the lockbox.

Towels & Laundry 

  • We have a laundry service that comes to pick up our dirty laundry, and delivers clean and folded laundry, on Tuesdays & Fridays in the afternoon

  • Monday nights & Thursday nights: Make sure to bag up all the dirty laundry to have ready for the next morning to be put out for our laundry service.

  • Put dirty laundry in dirty bags, bring it to the back hallway, include a couple clean bags if we have them available.

  • Once clean laundry is delivered, move to the salon to stock all the towels & capes, then bring excess laundry to break room

Beverage & Amenity Offerings

  • Snack & Beverage Menu

    • Bakery Items, Fruit Bars, Clif Bars, Granola Bars, Chips & Kid Snacks (Under Desk in basket)

    • Water, Coffee, Iced Tea, Hot Tea, Ginger Ale, Coke or Diet Coke, Sparkling Water, Sparkling Juice

  • Hummingbird Bakery Items- @hummingbird_bakeshop

  • Serve your clients their beverages or snacks

  • Pastry items can be served on plates or with a napkin, using the tongs in the drawer.

  • Coffee & tea, make sure to ask about creamer, honey, sweeteners or anything else.

  • How to use our Kuerig coffee maker… watch the video below