Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Dear Customers, Zubio, Inc. ceased operations as of November 9, 2009. Here is the full story. Just as we were slated to expand to a multi-unit operation in May of 2008, the oil crisis hit on top of the mortgage meltdown making the recession inevitable and caused a mass retreat of the angel investors lined up for our first expansion round of funding. So, instead of expanding, we hunkered down and cut our expenses to the bone hoping to ride out the downturn. Alas, the recession proved to deep and too wide. While the goal of building a national brand was not achieved, a successful business model for an owner-operated retail chair massage studio was demonstrated. In fact, one of our former Zubio Specialists, Adam Deskin, has taken up the challenge and is now operating BreakPoint Massage in the old Zubio location, so you can still get the same high quality acupressure chair massage six days a week. Stop by Crocker Galleria or call him at (415) 391-2055 to book an appointment. You can see his menu of services at www.breakpointmassage.com. If you are interested in chair massage services in your workplace or at your event, please check out TouchPro, the organization that gave birth to Zubio and continues providing cutting edge chair massage services. Finally, to the forty-six investors and over 6,000 customers who crossed our threshold in the past five years, touched our lives and made Zubio possible we extend a heartfelt and everlasting: "Thank you very much!" David Palmer and the Staff of Zubio |