I suspect the selling point would be that an actual Sophont is doing the cutting rather than a robot, speaking of which I visited a well known 'charcoal cooked chicken' place and they are using wifi connected beepers as order numbers.You take this small device that looks like a hockey puck to your table and when it starts beeping and flashing you know the meal is ready to collect from the counter (Each one displays a number on the side of the 'puck'.)

Getting back to the hairdressing idea, I'm beginning to think that a 'Brubecks' style setup where the whole thing is fitted into a transportable container might be a way to go. The ones I've seen have around 5 'cutting stations' and a small waiting area, although one is in a bus station and dispenses with the waiting area, patrons make use of the seats on the concourse.


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On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 2:25 AM Graham Donald - gndonald2001 at yahoo.com.au (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
I'll see what I can do,  I've just got to try and avoid in the case of the hairdressing quasi-chains their brand names, all the small gadget stalls seem to use different names. Might need help with backstories, inspiration has never been my strongpoint.

Graham

Avoiding the brand names may be an interesting challenge. I’ve seen just about every thesaurus entry for "hair", "cut", and "style" used as a pun for the business names. Shear Delight, or hair today, gone tomorrow. 

One of our local barbers has an agreement with the local Beautician college where the students practice their skills on live subjects, and you get a cut for 20% off normal prices. 

At Traveller tech levels if you only want simple hairstyle that a robot would do the work. If you don’t mind having a dozen robotic arms each tipped with a razor sharp knife blade whirring around your head. 




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On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 04:43:51 +0000 (UTC), Graham Donald wrote:


>I was just wandering through my local shopping center and spotted a couple of things that might add 'color' to a spaceport or startown. The first are the stalls that sell small electronic gadgets ranging from custom covers to mobile phones to small power banks, data cables, speakers and things you can run off powerbanks like fans and reading lights. I've also seen a shopfront version of this that looked like something you'd find in a startown, the entrance was festooned with illuminated signs (Some of which advertised the shop, others were for sale.), and LED tape, inside was an array of gadgets ranging from cheap security equipment, to wireless speakers, powerbanks and lots of cheap data cables.

>The second is more interesting, it's a quasi-chain of shopfront barbers shops where the patron goes to the entrance, pays an upfront fixed cost (Not only much lower than a standard barbers shop, but the same irrespective of gender.) into a machine and gets a numbered ticket. The patron then waits for the number on their ticket to come up. Once it does they take a seat and someone will cut their hair (At the one I saw the hairdressers all seemed to be young 'university student' age people.) while they watch an entertaining video (One I visited had a 'Candid Camera' type show playing on small 'tablet' type computers.).


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