Anthony Aragues lives here and pays for this out of his own pocket. A few dollars a month for the website, plus the stickers. That’s the whole thing.
More about him: AnthonyAragues.com
Two reasons — and neither one is snobbery.
You already know where the chains are. This list is for the place two streets over that you’d have driven past forever.
And the promise needs someone who can keep it. A shift manager can’t promise how a big company treats people. An owner can.
So it isn’t about being small. It’s about whether you decide how customers get treated here. One-chair barber? Yes. A family who owns their own franchise store? Yes. If the answer has to come from head office, this isn’t your list — and that’s no reflection on you.
Want to be on it? Someone will come and see you.
Tell us where you are and we’ll arrange to drop in. It takes a minute, and it asks you to sign in with Google first — that’s only so we know a real person sent it.
The form is not the promise. A volunteer still comes out, reads it to you, and you sign it there — nothing gets listed off the back of a web form.
This badge should still mean the same thing in ten years.
If it ever stops being free, or starts meaning anything else, this page changes first.