Bubbly Paws dog grooming expanding beyond Twin Cities
While some businesses saw declines in sales during the pandemic due to stay-at-home orders and other COVID-19 restrictions on in-store activity, Keith and Patrycia Miller welcomed an increase in people wanting to use their self-serve and full service dog grooming salons.
“You were home a lot more, so now you realize [the] dog smells,” Keith Miller said. “At the start of the pandemic, it was ‘I just need to get out because everything else is closed,’ so we were sometimes the only contact people had for the day, either dropping the dog off or coming in and bathing them.”
And with people staying in doors for a prolonged period during the pandemic, pet adoptions increased, leading to more business for the Millers.
Now the Millers are launching their franchise option outside of the Twin Cities.
“We’ve always debated if we want to do it and [asked] is now was the