If the math doesn’t work and the business isn’t viable, there’s no point in keeping it alive. But if it is, then she encourages owners to ask themselves if the work is still meaningful to the family. “She was 5-foot-nothing,” Ms. Hyman said. That’s my fondest memory of this place — not ever knowing that I would be her someday, in a sense.”When Gertie died in 2006, Hannon took over — with some input from Ms. Hyman. But Ms. Hyman persuaded Hannon to let her test a ladies’ night one Sunday a month so that women could enjoy the hot saunas and whirlpools, and get a massage.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2020 09:01 UTC