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So what are they?
The champagne room gets converted to a sparkling cider room...
The sign outside is changed to read "3 Beautiful Dancers.. and 57 ugly ones."...
The "Cattle Calls" are aptly named..
The bathroom valet wants a fiver to use the toilet..
The kitchen menu is expanded to add "Cream of Washroom" soup..
The dancers are reduced to using semaphore flags to ask for dances as the 13 year old DJ they hired hasnt figured out the volume control...
Next to the posted dancer schedule is each dancers monthly STD checkup printout..
Your co-worker explains how tired her lungs are from the last air dance...
Never mind. I deleted it. Polecat's was much better than mine.
With one exception of the No. 1 sign of strip club fade:
Tense dancers.
Well, let's not forget the "CLOSED DUE TO LIQUOR VIOLATIONS" sign on the door, the machine-gunned car of the club owner, or the interest of the local city council in closing the joint going from zero to 100%.
haha that was cute but seriously I'd say a visible and steady decline in club volume and girls doing more and more in the lap booth...
dammit! why did you do that JZ?
Although I was going to reitterate...tense dancers
No air conditioning?
1. management raises the house fee's
2. more and more customers start asking for deals on dances- they have figured out that its slow and are using it against the dancers as leverage.
3. more dancers than customers everynight of the week
4. there are more than 2 or 3 dancers who are doing more than the club allows on every shift
4. Players, thugs and drug dealers make up more than 30% of the customers on any given night.
5. Majority of the stage seats are filled with non tippers
6. Customers start using versions of "you gotta earn my money honey " as a bargining tool for more than dances
Ok..and dancers listen up....when customers complain because the bar "just seems to be running out of everything". When there is no more advertizing. When management starts to placate to the girls to keep them around. These are sure fire signs that Ive seen before and run for my life when it goes on for more than 3 weeks.
My old home club prior to me quitting filled in 3,4 and 5 on Rayanna's list. Then two weeks after I quit they then filled in no. 1 .... and from what I have heard (from current dancers who work there) still fill in the other numbers (3,4 and 5).
They went from 40 to 45% to the club. They raised the lap dance prices whilst also raising their own percentage/take at the same time! Now the dancers are practically giving away nearly half (only 5% off half.. not that much) their money to the club.
One of the main reasons I do not want to go back. Besides no. 3 and 5.
Then again no. 5 has always applied to that club since they do not encourage stage tipping at all. They promote the lap dances. All you have to do is refer to some of my older posts when I was working at that club (prior to March 31 2003).
I'm thinking it is going to hell.... well.. then again, the manager did say at the last meeting I attended prior to quitting that the overall 'value' of the club had dropped dramatically. If it dropped any further the owners were going to sell.
My new club has more potential. They are going to renovate the place sometime this year ;D
When a mediocre-looking, dressed bartender is the hottest chick in the club!
How about yellow caution tape on the doors, or "Do not enter by authority of local law enforcement" tape???
Yeppers.. seen it.
In recent years, most clubs fit this description.Quote:
Originally Posted by phillydj link=board=1;threadid=9285;start=msg110496#msg1104 96 date=1084853282
Rayanna's post pretty much summed it up. Add to that:
When the club begins to show obvious signs of low/no physical maintenance....ripped upholstery that never gets fixed, holes in walls, incessant roof leaks, torn carpeting that causes everyone to trip in the same places month after month, bathroom doors removed because they're falling off the hinges and never get fixed, few or none of the lockers work anymore, chairs falling apart/wobbling, paint peeling, fog machines/blowers no longer work, paper towels rarely if ever get stocked in the girls' bathroom, repairs/remodels left unfinished for months, crackling sound system never gets fixed.....I could go on and on....
Basically nothing ever gets fixed anymore!
One more:
A club that used to limit the number of girls on shift suddenly starts hiring any girl who walks in the door and raises or eliminates the dancer cap.
when u have to give a shitload of $$$ when u walk in and then get practically strip searched at the end of a shift to make sure u gave them "their %" on your way out....happend to me at a club called Dreamers on the northwest side of illinois....RIGHT BEFORE IT BECAME SCORES OF CHICAGO!!!
The price of drinks sky-rockets.
Girl fights break out a lot more and management does not do much about it.
The kitchen which put out excellent food closes.
Your ATF, who has been there for a long time, wants to move on to another place because of the bull-shit.
>>>Sad<<<
When the lights on the main stage go out! (true story) repeatedly!
When the club starts bringing in girls who don't normally work there and take a whole night of shifts away from their house dancers.
This is the clubs answer to business being slow, it helps them but not the house dancers.
:rotfl: The previous quote rings to true at the club I work at! After multi-million $ renovations to the inside/outside of the club, management still hires "shit" for entertainers. Patrons pull into the club parking lot and see a "palace". They walk in and roughly 5-10 dancers look like they belong there! Needless to say, they might stay a bit........but they will tell others about their experience. Word of mouth travels fast. Quality men(of the big $ spending variety)do not usually venture in there often due to lack of quality entertainers. Heck, my club has even been blasted on SCL........about having a beautiful club but majorily unattractive dancers. It is a rule of thumb I learned a long time ago.....the more attractive, classy entertainers you have, the more money everyone makes. Oh well, I am done with my rant.........however, I may go back to Mens Club or maybe the Cheetah(gotta go where the money is).Quote:
Originally Posted by ~*~Cassandra~*~ link=board=1;threadid=9285;start=msg110518#msg1105 18 date=1084857549
Oh I've got a great one for you. There's a club in Vegas called Larry's Villa. It's been around for about 30 years or so and it owned by this 80+ year old guy who only sees it at a means to his end. He doesn't care about the dancers, the bar tenders, the bouncers and especially not the club. He just walks in, barks a bunch of orders once or twice a day and leaves. It's basically a local blue-collar bar that has 10 dancers or so. That being said:
- The carpet looks like it hasn't been cleaned since Carter was president.
- The bathrooms have no doors and have gang tags everywhere on the inside. There is no mirror (in the mens or womens restrooms or dressing room) because they were all smashed years ago. A replacement was put up years ago and is a shiny piece of sheet metal. Over the years though, the metal has been keyed so many times it's now as dull as brick wall behind it.
- The fog machine mounted in the ceiling drips fog juice.
- The chairs are so disgusting, you feel as though you are going to catch a disease just sitting there, and the dancers complain because the "genuine naugahyde" seats have so many cracks in them, it's painful for them to sit down in dancer outfits.
- There is no DJ. The dancers have a boom-box back stage wired into the sound system. If they don't mix their own CDs, they have to go to the back after every dance on stage and switch their own CDs. Oh, I should add, this is considered "high-tech" for this club as they just got a CD player a year or two ago. Before, the dancers had to go in the back and switch their cassette tapes.
- And lastly, my personal favorite... The huge cracks and holes in the stage have been repaired using, and I'm not kidding, DUCT TAPE. Sad but true.
THE CLUB IS CLOSED PERMANATELY AND NOBODY WAS CALLED OR TOLD IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.