Relaxation on-the-go

“I was at the mall with my husband and son and I walked by Brookstone®,” said Jennifer. “While I was in that chair for those 15 minutes, the seed was planted.” During those 15 minutes of relaxation, Jennifer made a realization that Healthy Lounge was founded upon, “I figured there had to be some sort of business centered around relaxation in a hurry.”

“I figured my overhead could be less if I was not paying a person to do the service,” Jennifer realized as she thought more about massage chairs. She could have settled on the Brookstone chair that sparked the initial idea, but as she put it, “I figured that if I am going to do it, I am going to do it right and be committed to having the best of the best.” This is what brought Jennifer to Inada.

Not only was Inada the first to have invented the massage chair in the 60’s, that is all they have ever done, and have become the experts. These high tech chairs create a custom massage program for each person who sits in them by doing a full body scan and finding a matching body type. The advantage? The chairs don’t hit you in the wrong places or create an uncomfortable experience.

Jennifer soon realized that having equipment perform the services Healthy Lounge not only cuts down on overhead, but also on the time it takes to manage different personalities, and the stress that can comes along with it. She ventured out to find what else might help people to relax, and came upon a surprisingly simple answer: Oxygen.

Jennifer found many benefits of adding an Oxygen bar to the offering of Healthy Lounge. “The body relies on Oxygen for 90% of its energy and on food and water for the remaining 10%,” Jennifer reported. Figuring that an Oxygen bar provides you with 97% pure oxygen, much more than you’d get by breathing normal air, it seemed like an obvious addition to the Healthy Lounge. “The ability to get such a large amount of oxygen in such a short amount of time makes you feel rejuvenated.”

As far as visions for the future, Jennifer said that “not a week goes by that somebody doesn’t ask us if this is a franchise.” Healthy Lounge looks to have a promising future and Jennifer is starting to consider it a little more seriously, “We have to prove the concept long term and become profitable. I’ve already had 3 people tell me they want to open a ‘Healthy Lounge’ in part of the country!”