William Burt of Waterloo has a dream. He wants to take his mobile barbershop, Kut Kings, on the road to give hair cuts to people who need them. To people who can’t get to a barbershop or can’t afford a haircut, but he ran into the law.
The state didn’t have a law allowing for mobile barbershops, so he fought to change that law and he won. Or at least he thought he did. Just a couple of days after the legislature passed a law to make it legal in March 2020, the Iowa Board of Barbering told him that they couldn’t give him a license because there are no rules or regulations for the mobile barber industry. It’s been a year since that happened and Burt is still waiting.
Burt is planning on opening a Kut Kings brick-and-mortar location in the coming months.
Guest:
- William Burt, owner, Kut Kings
