Student Discount: Rookie Rates from Aspiring Masters
By Patrick Heig, San Francisco Editor
Almost everybody's feeling the squeeze from the recession, but that doesn't mean you have to cut back on luxuries like restaurants, spa treatments, salon haircuts and....dental work. Save money and help a student perfect his craft, or indulge in what are sure to be lavish extravagances during this brutal downturn: clean teeth and a decent haircut.
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Careme 350
350 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA
During the week, students from the California Culinary Academy cook fancy seasonal French cuisine lunches and dinners--with linen napkins!---for about ten bucks. Twice a month they even offer a three-and-a-half course lunch for $3.50; if you don't like it you can ask for your bus fare back. -
Educated Palate
88 Fourth St, San Francisco, CA
Upscale dining--think prosciutto-wrapped shrimp salad, red wine-braised lamb and heirloom tomato tartlet--at hole-in-the-wall prices can be found at this downtown lunch spot run by students in the culinary program at CCSF.
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San Francisco Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology
1067 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA
They may not be professionals yet, but the students at this Paul Mitchell-endorsed cosmetology school offering discounted services ($20 for a cut and style) will make sure your lovely locks look their best--their grade depends on it. -
DiPietro Todd Salon
177 Post St, San Francisco, CA
The haute hairstylists in training at DiPietro will give you that bold salon-styled look for the same $15 Super Cuts charges for a glorified bowl cut.
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Zenzi's Beauty College
551 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA
This family-owned Hayes Valley cosmetology school offers $10 cuts, $30 facials, $8 manis, $17 pedis and even $15 waxing by stylists-in-training in a retro spot that's changed little in the last two decades. -
Miss Marty's School of Beauty
1087 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
Concerned about what a $10 wax might feel like? That's probably a healthy concern, but the students at this Mission cosmetology school are under careful supervision, of course. How hard could it be? Wax on, wax off.
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American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
455 Arkansas St., San Francisco, CA
Students learning Eastern medicine techniques like herbal therapy, shiatsu massage and--whoa--acupuncture, practice on brave patients at this Potrero Hill clinic for steeply discounted prices. Wear goggles? -
National Holistic Institute Teaching Clinic
1665 Market St, San Francisco, CA
Want to get rubbed down by a student without coming across as a weirdo? Enjoy a Swedish or shiatsu massage for only $35/hr at this training ground for students of the National Holistic Institute.
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UCSF Buchanan Dental Clinic
100 Buchanan St, San Francisco, CA
The uninsured can head to this practice lab where UCSF dental students run drills on your grill for half what you'd pay elsewhere. The faculty is on hand for more complicated procedures. -
Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry Main Clinic
2155 Webster St, San Francisco, CA
Students of the University of the Pacific's dentistry program provide affordable care for locals' pearly whites--and if getting a root canal from a student scares you, you're absolutely right: stick with routine cleanings at this place.
