Hello, everyone
I've been stripping for only a few months at a used-to-be-prestigious club in Manhattan. Last week I had a client who spent several hours with me in the VIP room. He was leaving me very generous tips ($1000+ for each hour) The host was trying to get in on some of those tips: he repeatedly asked my customer to "hook him up" and in return he'd give him "red carpet treatment" every time he visited. My client left over 60% on top of the room fee in tips and repeatedly instructed the host to "make sure she gets half" After 3 hours when the host brought me my tip, it was much less than 10% of the money already left in tips. For the last hour, the customer explicitly wrote on the receipt "50/50" instructing the host several times again, to give me half the tips.
At the end, when I requested my tips from the host, he said that on the credit card receipt, the "tip line is for the host", so all those tips are his. Not only am I not entitled to the tips my client wanted me to have, but he said that I should TIP HIM out of my per hour earnings. The next day, every manager at the club was telling me how the "tip line is for the host". They told me that if the client wants ME to have some extra money, he'd have to put a separate charge on his card. My host, of course, "forgot" to mention that to the client, and in response to client's requests to make sure I'd get half, he said he'd "take care of me"
My question is... Is it LEGAL to say that "TIP LINE IS FOR THE HOST"? In any service industry, isn't the tip ALWAYS intended for the person actually PROVIDING the service? It would make sense if the host expected a 10-15% tip-out, but LYING to the customer and pocketing nearly ALL of my tips???? That's F*cked up, no?



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