salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 5, Episode 4 · Aired April 25, 2013
Nexgen Barber Shop
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
What happened after
Official site (nexgenbarbers.com) live with online ordering; Yelp lists current hours (Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9-3) at 2703 Old Fort Pkwy; Facebook active.
What happened on the show
The takeover reached a barbershop in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for this season five episode, part of the show's continued reach beyond salons. The method carried over to the barbershop setting: Coffey embeds in the business, delivers her blunt assessments, restructures the staff, and stages a renovation reveal. Because no synopsis survives for this installment, we do not reconstruct the specific incidents. The documented facts are the format and the setting, a Nexgen barber shop on Old Fort Parkway in Murfreesboro taken through the overnight process. Coffey's premise held, that a grooming business reflects its leadership and its consistency, and that the value of the intervention was an honest reset the owner could not reach alone. The point throughout was that a barbershop earns its regulars through discipline set from the top down.
After the cameras left
Nexgen Barber Shop is open. Its official site is live with online ordering, Yelp lists current weekly hours at the Old Fort Parkway address in Murfreesboro, and its Facebook is active. The live official site with online booking and current hours listing make this a high confidence survivor. The Murfreesboro barbershop came through its takeover and continues to operate years after the episode aired.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.