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Jamacha Road, El Cajon

About Mr Cut

Two businesses, one door. A barbershop with one price list on the wall — a hair cut is $25 and the shampoo and wash are free — and a beauty supply counter selling the same things the barbers reach for.

Neither half is an add-on to the other. That is the whole idea.

Open seven days

Nine to seven Monday through Saturday, and ten to three on Sunday — the day most shops on this road are shut and most people are actually free.

The wash is free

It says so on the board: free shampoo & wash. Not an upsell, not a package — it is what a cut here has always included.

Walk in or book

Walk-ins have always been welcome and always will be. Booking is for when you want a particular barber, or you do not want to wait.

You pick the chair

Everybody has a barber. Choose yours by name, see the times they are genuinely free, and that is who you get — at the same price as any other chair.

Buy what we used

Whatever went in your hair is on the shelf by the counter, along with clippers, blades, beard oil and braiding hair.

The neighbourhood

A shop, not a chain

Mr Cut sits in the row of storefronts on Jamacha Road, under a hand-built sign with a barber pole bolted to the parapet. There is no membership, no app to download, no package to buy up front and no "next available stylist".

There is a price list on the wall, a row of chairs, and a shelf of product behind the counter. Booking online just puts your name against one of the chairs before you get here.

Free Shampoo & Wash.
The last line on the board, in the shop’s own words

Come as you are

Tell your barber what you actually want, sit down, and leave looking like yourself on a good day. That is the entire brief.

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