salonTabatha Takes Over · Season 1, Episode 5 · Aired September 18, 2008
Salon Tika
Rockville Centre, New York
It is still up and running.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 5 · September 18, 2008 · salon
aired as Tabatha's Salon Takeover
What happened after
A consistent phone/address (200 Merrick Rd) recurs across numerous directories; a direct fetch of the CMac.ws listing shows structured current weekly hours (Tue-Sat, closed Sun-Mon) with no closure tag. No official site or active social account with a dated post was found, so kept at low confidence.
What happened on the show
Coffey's intervention reached Rockville Centre, New York, for this first season episode, and the show held to the same template it used everywhere. The takeover format sends her into a salon to observe the operation firsthand, deliver assessments stripped of any comfort, restructure the staff where she finds the weak points, and stage a renovation that ends in a reveal. No episode synopsis has survived to fill in the specific beats, so we do not invent them here. The documented facts are the format and the salon itself, a hair business on Long Island taken through the show's overnight process. Coffey's consistent thesis applied as always, that the way a salon treats its clients and runs its chairs reflects the person in charge, and that the point of the visit was to force that reflection before any new paint went up.
After the cameras left
Salon Tika appears to be operating. A consistent phone and address on Merrick Road recurs across numerous directories, and a direct fetch of one listing showed structured current weekly hours with no closure tag for the Rockville Centre salon. No official site or active social account with a dated post was found, and directory data is known to persist unchanged for years after a business closes, so we hold the open verdict at low confidence. The structured hours listing is the only source with live looking data.
Sources
Confidence: low. Last checked 2026-07-19.