Selling drinks as blocks of time?
*trying this again since it didnt post last time*
At my club drinks are sold for either $20 or $40 bucks. The club takes HALF of this!
I dont like selling drinks because 1. I dont like conversing with customers. 2. The waiter/waitress comes around slowly... so maybe selling two drinks every 30 minutes (as a side note, some customers get irate if the waiter comes sooner than that). 3. I can make MORE money selling private dances.
However, some customers are persistant you talk with them.
So this is what I want to know...
Would it work to say I either A) Tell them conversations have to be in the private room ($25 bucks a song plus tip) or B) Sell drinks and conversation time as a "block" of time.
I literally cant sit with a customer unless he's buying me a drink. But in 30 minutes I would have made more in the private room.
For 30 minutes... thats about ten songs. Thats 250 plus tip (I usually ask for $7 dollars per song considering thats what the club takes).
So when I sell drinks for 30 minutes thats about $40 or $20 ONLY that he spends and I get half!
Besdies, talking can be just as physically draining as dancing depending on what kind of personality Im sitting with. I might as well be a psychologist at times.
So is it fair to say,"Conversation with me is "X" amount of dollars for 30 minutes plus two ladies drinks?"
What do you think?
Re: Selling drinks as blocks of time?
i would go about it differently. for example, say something like, "i'd love to sit and talk with you, but i would much rather go back to the vip room so we can have some privacy. that way we can spend more time together, too."
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I really don't know why I'm posting because I don't have an answer.... I don't get the concept of buying drinks/selling drinks. Is that a Southern thing??
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Its a dumb thing!
I think its inspired from asian clubs... "Buy me drinkee!"
Tons of hostess bars in Hawaii.
So the guy buys a girl a drink and she rubs him off under the table (or she can). So its not SEEN as prostitution... its just a guy wanting to spend genuine time "talking" with a girl.
That and its just another way for the bar to make money from the customer.
I think selling drinks sucks.