Mitchell’s Salon & Spa / Ohio Day Spas

 

 

 

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Add a mimosa, a plush robe or a new haircut, and relaxation is inevitable.

 

Sounds divine, doesn’t it?

 

Now imagine that you don’t have to pay for it.

 

Plenty of companies reward their clients and employees this time of year. But some lucky ones – many of them women – get a day at the spa for their hard work.

 

Nyria Acosta-Pearl, a manager at Sia Spa in Kenwood, said the parties are popular with corporations and drug companies. And in addition to the superficial benefits, she said the spa days can be a boost for workers.

 

“We’re always concerned about first impressions,” Acosta-Pearl said. “I think people are more conscious of what they look like, what they feel like.”

 

One division of Frost Brown Todd law firm has been taking clients to Mitchell’s Salon & Day Spa for seven years. The entire firm started treating female clients to spa parties two years ago, said Kim Mauer, an attorney in the commercial real estate transactions division.

 

“Our women clients love it,” she said. “We use it for a thank you for work they’ve sent during the year.”

 

About a decade ago, Mauer and a banker friend lamented that they’d have to take up golf, a traditional corporate pastime.

 

The pair decided a holiday shopping trip would be a fun and productive outing for busy professionals.

 

A few years and a few different malls later, the trip became a day at Mitchell’s. Now Mauer’s division hosts 75-80 women – many of them from out of town – over two days before Christmas.

 

“It’s just such fun to spend time with our clients in a more relaxed setting,” she said.

 

Shannon Wenstrup, the spa event manager at Mitchell’s, said Frost Brown Todd was among their first clients. And in the seven years she’s held that position, the demand just keeps growing.

 

More law firms – along with corporations, doctors’ and dentists’ offices, and banks – book parties each year.

 

That day of relaxation – catered to suit the clients’ needs, both spas say – comes as a reward for plenty of hard work.

 

Philip Ponicsan, commercial business manager with Ford Fleet Operations, uses the spa day as a part of a Monte Carlo weekend he hosts for seven winners of a two-month sales event each year.

 

“Every year I do this, I don’t have to push these guys to sell,” Ponicsan said. “Their spouses push them to win it.” (There have been female winners, but there are fewer women in the fleet division, he said.)

 

Mauer agrees that the spa day is “a powerful incentive.”

 

But spa day is a time for everyone to relax. “I have been known to threaten to remove cell phones,” she said.

 

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