Tabatha Takes Over: Which Salons Survived?

The Tabatha Takes Over where are they now story is, honestly, one of the happier ones in this entire directory. Across the 50 businesses we track from Tabatha Takes Over, 33 are still open under their original name, another 5 are open under a new one, and only 9 have closed. That works out to one of the strongest survival records of any rescue show we follow, and there is a structural reason for it that has nothing to do with luck.

Let me tell you who Tabatha is, and then why salons beat restaurants at staying alive.

Who Tabatha Coffey is

Tabatha Coffey is an Australian-born hairstylist who built a reputation on being the most direct voice in any room she walks into. American audiences first met her as a contestant on Bravo's Shear Genius, where her blunt, unsentimental style made her the person you either loved or feared. Bravo then handed her her own show, first as Tabatha's Salon Takeover and later broadened into Tabatha Takes Over, where she stepped beyond hair into struggling businesses of other kinds.

Her method is deceptively simple. She does not soften bad news. She walks into a failing salon, watches the owner and staff work without interfering, and then delivers an assessment with zero cushioning. The renovations and retraining matter, but the engine of the show is accountability. Coffey's core belief is that most of these businesses are not failing because of the market. They are failing because a manager stopped managing, and no amount of new styling stations fixes an owner who will not lead.

The show grew in scope over its run. It began as a hair-salon rescue, tightly focused on the world Coffey knew best, and later widened to take on other small businesses that had lost their way. But the salon episodes are its heart, and they are where the survival record is most telling, because they pit her core skill against the exact kind of business she understands from the chair up. When Coffey diagnoses a salon, she is not guessing. She has run one.

Why salons survive when restaurants do not

Before the numbers, the context that explains them. A salon is a fundamentally more durable business than a restaurant, and it shows up plainly in our survival data across shows.

A salon carries less inventory, wastes less product, and does not live or die on last night's health inspection or a walk-in cooler that failed at 2am. Its costs are lower and steadier. Its customers book appointments and come back on a schedule, which smooths revenue in a way a restaurant's walk-in traffic never does. A stylist with a loyal client book is a portable, resilient asset. When Coffey fixes the management and the culture, she is reinforcing a business that was already built on more stable ground than a struggling diner ever stands on.

That is the backdrop for a survival record that would look almost too good on any restaurant show.

The full status board

Set aside the 3 we cannot currently verify and 47 businesses have a confirmed outcome. Of those, 33 are still open under their original name. That is 70.2 percent, a survival rate most rescue formats never come close to. Count the 5 that were renamed but never closed and 38 of 47 are still operating in some form, which is 80.9 percent. Four out of five is a remarkable durability figure for any small business, let alone a set that was failing badly enough to need a television intervention.

The salons still open

The open column is deep, so here is a representative spread.

Martino Cartier Salon in Sewell is open, and it is arguably the show's signature success. Martino Cartier became known well beyond his own chair for the charity work he built around the salon, and the business is still going strong.

Jungle Red Salon in Minneapolis is open. Salon Tika in Rockville Centre is open. Orbit Salon in Chicago is open. None of these are flashy comeback headlines. They are the quiet middle of a very tall open column, salons that took the hard feedback, tightened the management, and simply kept booking clients year after year. That is what a 70 percent survival rate looks like up close: a lot of ordinary businesses that just kept going.

It is a spread worth noticing, too. These survivors sit in New Jersey, Minnesota, New York, and Illinois, in big cities and smaller suburbs alike. The durability is not a regional fluke or a single lucky market. It shows up coast to coast, which is what you would expect if the underlying cause is the business model itself rather than any one owner getting a soft landing.

The renamed: still alive, new banner

A rename on this show is usually a fresh start, not a failure. Two clean examples.

Bang Salon in Fort Lauderdale is open, now operating as FOUR Hair Salon. A Star Is Born in Mission Viejo is open too, rebranded as Crazy Hair Company. Same chairs, same craft, new sign over the door. These land in the "still operating" count for a reason: the business survived, it just changed clothes. A directory that only counted original names would wrongly file these as losses. They are wins.

The closures

Nine salons closed, and they get named like everyone else.

Club Ripples in Long Beach is closed. Allure in Coconut Grove is closed. Flavio Beauty College in Torrance is closed. Even a show with an 80 percent operating rate posts real losses, and pretending otherwise would undercut the honesty of the survivors. A blunt on-camera fix cannot save a business whose owner refuses the lesson, or one whose problems ran deeper than culture and management. Nine out of 47 is a small closed column, but it is not zero, and we count it exactly.

What the record means

Tabatha Coffey's survival numbers are the best kind of proof that her method works, and that the businesses she chose were fundamentally salvageable. Take a durable business model, add relentless accountability, and roughly four in five of these salons were still operating on our latest pass. That is not television magic. It is a lower-risk business type meeting a fixer who refused to let owners hide.

There is one more way to read the 3-business unverifiable column, and it is worth stating plainly. We did not fold those three into the survival rate in either direction. They are not counted as open, and they are not counted as closed. That is why the denominator here is 47 and not 50. A survival rate calculated against businesses we cannot confirm would be a guess wearing a decimal point, and the whole value of a directory is that it does not do that. If any of the three resurfaces with a confirmed status, the numbers shift, and we will say so.

The full board lives on the Tabatha Takes Over hub, all 50 with a current, dated status on each. Every status here is a snapshot we re-verify over time, because even salons change hands and close eventually. But as of our latest pass, this is the rare rescue show where "where are they now" is mostly a good-news answer.