Has anyone here ever worked Larry Flint's Hustler Club in Washington Park, Il.?
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Has anyone here ever worked Larry Flint's Hustler Club in Washington Park, Il.?
I work at the new Larry Flynt's Hustler Club here in Baltimore, MD and I'm having lots of fun working there! :)
cool kianna are they pretty much the same? What are the house fees dress code ect. also how the$$
Just about the same, house fees are normally between $30-50. But they now don't make us pay them, since they take out $6 from our couch dances and $3 for our table dances. DJ gets $10 and security gets $15. Yes, there is a serious ass dress code, no thugs in there (which is a good thing ;)) and the money is good these days. :) ;)
Do you think it's the same in Illinois?
Probably not. The club is going to charge a fee that is similar to those in the area.
I opened the Hustler club in SF almost 2 years ago. The base fee was $80 plus $10 for every VIP dance. They didn't take anything from our main floor dances. The DJs, floormen and house mom were salaried, so tips were optional. At the end of the night I usually owed anywhere from $80-200.
Keep in mind that all Hustler Clubs are part of the DeJa Vu chain. Things will run smoothly for the first 3-6 months, but then it will start getting seedier.
Hustler/DejaVu is famous for pulling a "WalMart" when they open a new club. Britney is right that initially they'll charge low stage fees and allow flexible schedules and run a 'clean' club in an attempt to attract top notch dancers away from the other existing clubs in town.
Then within a few months the existing clubs will start to feel a financial pinch - usually because the existing clubs will have lost most of their top notch dancers to Hustler/DejaVu with the upscale big spending customers following the top notch dancers. This usually results in the remaining dancers at these existing clubs - dancers who don't have the "goods" to be hired by Hustler/DejaVu - starting to introduce high contact and extras in an attempt to maintain income levels with the upscale big spending customers now going to Hustler/DejaVu. Any existing clubs which try to stay 'clean' usually see their income potential drop so far that they can't keep decent dancers and may wind up closing down.
At this point, where Hustler/DejaVu figures that they are now the only remaining game in town where top notch dancers are concerned, they start to raise stage fees and enact more percentage splits and stricter rules/schedules. They also start to 'look the other way' in regard to high contact, knowing that the other clubs in town now are offering the same high contact but for less money. If this sets off a rash of club busts so much the better, since Hustler/DejaVu has corporate attorneys on retainer to tie up the local politicians and cops while the existing clubs do not!
In the end, if all goes according to Hustler/DejaVu's plan, within 6 months they wind up being in the driver's seat i.e. essentially being the only place in town where top notch dancers still have a decent earnings potential - although that earnings potential is now actually reduced due to the higher stage fees and percentage splits collected by Hustler/DejaVu compared to their former clubs before Hustler/DejaVu opened up. The level of high contact and extras throughout all the clubs in the city will be increased, allowing the top notch dancers to achieve essentially the same take home income potential at Hustler/DejaVu as they were earning at their original clubs, with the additional high contact and extras money going to offset the stage fees and percentages that Hustler/DejaVu now charges them.
I have been to the Larry Flint's Hustler Club in Washington park and as for the club its really nice. It's huge with one big ass stage up front and a smaller one it the back of the big room. There is a smaller stage in the very back with pool tables and poker machines. Lots of vip booths. From what I seen its very clean and busy.
The Deja Vu in Springfield Illinois goes through a lot of dancers. I know a few of them and they (the Vu) take a lot of their money. I know they still make a lot but the club gets its hands it the pot.
I went there last night.
They told me to come in on wensday nights around 5ish, they have amature auditions. 1 place gets 300.00 plus a job offer and 2nd place gets 200 and a job offer and 3rd get 100 and a job offer.
at Flynts, it was ok alot more class then the rest. they have a web site some where.they were featuring a famouse porn star while i was there. i forget her name. I didnt see any girl walking the floor. only stage. but i didnt stay long. a few girls were topless with a thong, others nude. the crowd, dressed with class, and the cars in the lot told me that people that went there had money. over all it was a clean place.
Well, that is one of the "secrets" of Hustler/DejaVu's financial success. From the outside and from the main area of the club, it makes the first impression of an upscale gentlemen's club free of obvious sleaze. This goes over great with the white collar businessmen as well as with local politicians. However, an entirely different "world" is likely to exist in the VIP and Champagne rooms.
I second that Mel:
A moderate spending customer (i.e. under 2G per visit) certainly doesn't see what the high rollers (and the VIP girls) see beyond the main floor and stage area.
I used to work at larry flynts in washington park, its ok i guess. You can make a lot of money or you can walk with none. As far as St louis goes they charge the most for house fees, I am talking like double then every one else. THere are cameras everywhere, but from what I heard after I left there where still extras going on bc its easy too and the bouncers and camera people look the other way for money. They do couch dances and bed dances, 20 for couch 30 for bed. The thing that I hated was every hour they did somthing and you had to try to sell a dvd or t shirt or somthng, and the club took like 5 extra bucks and you didnt charge extra for the dances. If you have anymore quesitons you can pm me or whatever. Also there is a new club opening up right near hustler any day now and that maybe a better bet.
oh and another thing, they can and will fine you for everything at this club. It is a nude club on stage topless off. If you do not get nude they fine you and they are serious about this. And whatever you do not get off stage nude bc I have seen someone fired for this. You are required to work 3 shifts a week, and if you do not show or are late you will be fined, and must pay it before you can return to work. HOuse fee is set and then they take from each dance, and even more for merchandice dances. A lot of guys in stl do not like it, it was voted worst strip club. This may be because of the uptight attitude, for instance, if you sit on a guys lap you will be fined. All other clubs allow this in stl, so most guys say somthing but you know how they are. Have you worked at any other clubs here?
I just saw this topic today and I worked here as well. I did really great the days I was here. I signed my life away upon hiring-paperwork you wouldn't believe like it took at least half and hour to read sign date and understand all of it. Because they had been sued by some girls trying to get housefees an arbitration agreement is built into your contract along with all your tax crap. When all is said and done. Its a good club if you can hustle and even if you can't you'll do decent. They are pretty fair about hiring and are pretty nice. There are dirty girls and shady shit. I never saw it, but as the new girl they talk amongst themselves and don't worry about what you hear b/c nobody pays new girls much attention in back at first.
I worked there a few months after grand opening and it was cool to me except they want a schedule or your house fee is something like $65 + and they call you a right to work entertainer. You do merchandise sales, but its worth it because they do lead to more dances. They take money from each dance but its like $1-3 for regular dances and like $7 from magazine dances or whatever. I haven't been in a minute, but I'll make some calls and PM you with what the recent lowdown is.
I have only been to the one in New Orleans, and only as a customer. The club seemed pretty nice and the bartender became our tour guide and bodyguard for the night. I saw a few girls being what I would call dirty, but it was Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday, and everyone goes mad!
How is the money situation there? Is race an issue? I hope you don't mind me asking but I am interested in getting started in the Baltimore area sometime in April. I am working on getting my body in tip-top shape. I am looking for a place where I can take home $500/shift. Is there anyplace like that around here that you know of? Thanks in advance for your help :)
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I've been a Deja Vu girl for almost 10 years and I have worked at Hustler Club and Melonie is right about the "Walmart" theory. They will be as nice as they can in every way, especially financially, then they will stick it to you to make up for other failing clubs.
But dont get me wrong, there is definite ups to their clubs, depending on what you are looking for.
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Originally Posted by NikkiD link=board=4;threadid=2191;start=msg70631#msg70631 date=1076051940
I mean that we have a tanning bed, huge dressing room, 6 ft. lockers, bouncers to make sure that we are safe and always, and I mean always collect our money from the bastards that try to get away without paying, an extremely strict (and enforced) drug policy...
It goes on and not every single club can offer that.
how about deja vu in tampa? How is the money potential?
Anyone want to comment on these clubs nowadays? Are they any better? Hows the money in Baltimore?
Not at the Hustler in Baltimore. No tanning bed, no house mom and if you don't get paid, tough titties. In fact, there's been a rash of nonpaying Champagne room customers there. The guy gets the room, keeps telling the host to extend, then he gets presented with the bill at the end of the night and just refuses to sign. The club doesn't get paid, and the girl certainly doesn't either. I saw two dancers just last week get fucked out of over a grand each! I feel bad for the dancers, but zero sympathy for the club especially since they tell us to always get our money up front and they can't be responsible for us not getting paid.Quote:
Originally Posted by NikkiD link=board=4;threadid=2191;start=msg70636#msg70636 date=1076053919
At every other club I've worked in that does rooms, you get paid UP FRONT. If the guy's doing a card, they swipe each time and have the guy sign each time BEFORE your time begins. I mean, how do they know that the card's about 50 cents from being maxed out when some guy decides to do six hours in a room?
The way the rooms are run there is total amateur hour. For example, there's a 10% surcharge on funny money there when the guy buys it, and a guy was trying to get a room recently and the host actually said "are you SURE you wanna pay the 10% on your card". Repeatedly. Not just as a "Sir, we need to inform you" thing.
The Champagne rooms in the Baltimore club are glass in the front wall, so they really are clean there, but you can't even take your top off in them.
I work @ Larry'sHustler in New Orleans.Its o.k.
75$ per night for out of towners 7 hours or less.
55$ 7 hours or more
55$ local girls 7 hour or less 5$ to a house mom
35$ local girls 7 hour or more 10% D.J.
5$ on every booth & upstairs dance
8$ on promo dances
the dressing room is in shambles now .they are renovating so you have to get dressed in a construction zone til they get finished.
ITS LIKE PUTTING A QUARTER IN A SLOT MACHINE,HOW MUCH FEE'S & FINES AM i GONNA OWE HUSTLER @ THE END OF THE NIGHT !!!
^^ No shit. Hustler Baltimore was similar - it started to seem like they were just pulling numbers out of their asses and saying that's what I owed at closing time. The dance count was almost never right, the fees changed almost weekly, policies changed depending on which manager you were talking to and what mood he was in, and a certain vip host-turned manager developed a bad habit of imposing random fines on girls who were doing what they'd previously been TOLD to do.
I think Hustler Baltimore scarred me for life.