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WEST LONG BRANCH – In the mid-1990’s Jim Guarnera was a standout arresting lineman for the Rutgers University football team, a position abounding with a fair bulk of competitiveness and violence.
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That is all in the past.
On June 24, Guarnera and his wife, Cheryl, opened a business on the added end of the abandon spectrum – a Hand & Stone beating and facial spa in the Consumer Centre arcade capital on Route 36.
“I’m so far removed accepting played aggressive sports, my aftermost day in football pads was in February of 1997,” said Guarnera, who active as a chargeless agents with the San Francisco 49ers in 1996 but absent the final cut. “And now that I’ve had kids, I’ve acclimatized bottomward a lot added and accomplished that my anatomy can’t handle those things, alike admitting my apperception sometimes says that it can.”
The breadth is one of 111 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada for the Hamilton-based Hand & Stone, which has been growing steadily back the aboriginal breadth opened in Toms River in 2005.
Todd Leff, the arch controlling administrator of Hand & Stone, said the company’s account commitment archetypal helps accomplish it easier for barter to baby themselves and eliminates the “unsettling” accomplished practices of beating therapists accepting to accomplish abode calls or accessible their own homes to amusement clients.
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“We’re putting our locations in admirable and actual accepted arcade locations, like the one in West Long Branch. And our hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. makes it added acceptable and creates added appeal for our middle-market barter for this service,” Leff said. “What we accommodate is added convenient, added affordable and helps brainwash bodies on the bloom and wellness aspects of accepting approved beating and skincare treatments.”
And Leff said that abounding of the bodies who are aperture franchises accept a agnate affection – they’re couples.
“They’re absolutely our prototypal franchisees,” Leff said of the Guarnera’s. “We appetite our authorization owners to be in the area, area they accept influences and already apperceive people, and already collaborate with the accessible at places like Little League amateur and added amusing events.”
For the Guarnera’s, who both assignment abounding time in the biologic industry, the new business adventure was an befalling to annex out.
“We started attractive into franchising a few years ago. We accept some accompany who accept fettle centers and I knew that I capital to do article for myself eventually and to get to the point area I endemic my own businesses,” said Jim Guarnera, abacus a authorization fabricated the best faculty because the business archetypal was already in abode and they would get the abutment of the corporation.
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“We absolutely looked at some of the fettle centers, but acquainted that maybe article a little bit abate was added adapted for us,” he said. “My wife was a affiliate of the Hand & Stone bottomward in Toms River and she said ‘What about massage.’ So we arrested out a cardinal of the beating franchises and Hand & Stone by far fabricated the best faculty to us. They were local, we admired their business plan, we admired the casework that they action and the associates plan is actual acceptable for people.”
Guarnera said that authoritative the alteration from biologic sales to owning a beating and facial spa was almost easy.
“We’re still ambidextrous with bodies who accept a charge and aggravating to accomplish that need, so it translates actual nicely,” he said.
But what is not as accessible for the Guarnera’s is bamboozlement full-time jobs, a new business and four accouchement beneath the age of 7.
“We absorb a lot of hours awake,” joked Guarnera, who stops by the Hand & Stone on his way home from his day job. “We accept some ancestors help, my wife’s parents advice out with the kids back they can. And we aloof do the best we can, but it’s not easy.”
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The new Hand & Stone breadth fills one of the abandoned storefronts – aforetime active by Huntington Learning Centermost – in Consumer Centre, which has ballast businesses such as Home Depot and Sports Authority, but has additionally absent assorted added occupants over the aftermost few years.
“When we begin the arcade center, the aboriginal affair we looked at the demographics of the surrounding boondocks … and there were some absolutely able towns, as far as the blazon of bodies who ability be beating and facial clients,” Guarnera said. “And we’re assured that as the abridgement gets a little bit better, we’re activity to get added association in this arcade center. It’s a active arcade center, we aloof accept to get them over on our side.”
And so far, so good.
“We accept a abundant agents here, our beating therapists and estheticians are all accepting absolutely abundant reviews,” Guarnera said. “People are advancing in, and we’re busy.”
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