https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/04/04/emerging-from-covid-how-one-chain-of-nail-saloons-hung-on/

CARMEL — Minh Le remembers seeing clients gather in his reception area, take a seat, choose a hard candy, flip through a magazine, chat. The waiting was convivial inside his nail salon, Top Nails, established by his father, Charlie Le, in 1991, and passed on to him 10 years later. The Le family actually owns three salons on the Peninsula — in Carmel, Monterey, and Sand City — which means custom manicures, pedicures and other grooming treatments are what sustain his whole family.

Yet, one year ago, Le and his family were required to shutter their salons, as the world was told to shelter in place.