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    Default Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    I realized recently why we have so many cheapos coming in. You know when a guy says "I'm just here to drink/hang out"? You don't believe him, right? Because he could've gone to a bar for free and had cheaper drinks if he just wanted to drink, right? Well apparently the drinks are SO fucking cheap at my club that it IS financially worth it to pay the $8 cover charge to get in and so close to residential areas that guys save on gas to come to my club so they don't have to drive downtown to the bars. So it brings in all these guys who are utterly uninterested in paying women for entertainment, or for whom the female entertainment is an afterthought or a nice "free perk" for paying the $8 entry fee.


    FUCK THIS FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BAR BULLSHIT. MANAGEMENT NEEDS TO TURN THIS PLACE INTO A S-T-R-I-P C-L-U-B, the kinda place you save up your pennies to come to where DRINKING is an afterthought, or an element added to the experience of compensating strippers to show you a fun time.

    No wonder guys don't buy dances when they can get 7 beers for the price of 1 fucking dance. A whole night of drinking or something that will be over in 3 minutes. You won't believe the look on guys' faces when I tell them the price of a dance ($25, but the house keeps 7 or 8 of it). It makes me feel sick and disgusting to know that a guy doesn't think that me having to take off my clothes for some stranger and work really hard to turn him on and get basically felt up for 3 minutes should earn me $17 or $18. How little do these guys think we should be charging? $1? $5? A PRO FOOTBALL PLAYER bought a dance from me the other night and almost tipped me $15 but then when I wouldn't let him finger me he retracted his tip. All the while giving me that "don't worry shorty money aint a thang" bullshit. He wasn't low on cash. He was PUNISHING me for not complying.

    I really think raising drink + entry prices would send a strong message to the patrons. This is not somewhere you go for free peeps and cheap beer. This is a fucking business, full of small business owners/independent contractors providing you entertainment and your measly $15 aint gonna let you fuck anyone.

    I'd rather have an empty club than a club full of non-spenders wasting my time & energy, benefiting off MY free labor, & treating me like shit.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    Couldn't agree with you more. I've worked in a few places where they charged no entry fee and no drink minimum. One club comes to mind. Many of these guys probably didn't have a job or just didn't like to spend. They'd come in, and since there was no drink minimum , they didn't always get a drink (or got a cheap one like pop). Then they'd sit at the stage and not tip. At the end of the night most of us were broke and the managers couldn't understand why no one made money because "it was so crowded". Finally all the dancers told them they needed to do something because these losers were increasing while paying customers were decreasing. They refused to do anything so most of us left. This is the same club I got yelled at because I refused to take off my top for non paying customers.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    unfortunately, in today's economy, the clubowners need to pocket an increased number of cover charges ( which 'cost the club absolutely nothing ) and an increased number of beer sales ( which cost the club almost nothing ) in order to continue making their mortgage payments, their property tax payments, their utility bill payments etc. to make up for a declining 'cut' from dancers' declining private dance sales. If the club's $7 cut of a declining number of private dance sales is no longer sufficient to 'pay the club's bills', and if the club can attract and earn $14 or $21 'new' dollars from every 'new' customer via additional cover charges and beer sales which does 'pay the club's bills', then from the clubowner's viewpoint the financial consequences to dancers of these 'new' customers not tipping and not buying private dances is a non-issue.

    Not meaning to be the devil's advocate, but what are the real world alternatives ? Well obviously the club could go bankrupt and close. As an alternative, the club could start 'extracting' a $10 or $12 cut from $25 private dances instead of a $7 cut. Or the dancers could decide to 'up the ante' by offering customers more 'money's worth' for their $25 in order to sell more private dances and restore the club's former earnings from private dance 'splits'.

    In the final analysis, clubowners will always look out for their own interest before the interests of the dancers.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    OP- I'm right there with you. Up until recently, I hadn't realized what an attraction cheap drinks are for people who can't afford dances/stage tips.

    It really has been within the last month or so that I've gotten the answer repeatedly "For the cheap beer" when I ask what the occasion is for their visit.

    Blaaaaaaaah.

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    Preaching to the choir. . .fuckin' $4 tequila shot night.

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    That is so insane to me. My club charges $4 for beers but I think it should be $6. $4 is about average in Miami at most bars. Actually, this is cheaper than at a night club around here

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    Yep... and the fact that my club continues to put girls onstage when the club is full of these guys; not tipping a dollar because they're cheap fucks and why should they when we're just going to continue to be forced to go up and get naked for free anyway... is what really makes me sick.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    at the last club i worked, the beer was cheaper than the beer at CHIPOTLE.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    i KNOW it's not as simple as packing your shit and switching clubs, but all the clubs in my area are awful. and yes, it sucks having to go far away to work, but every club is not run by idiots. better you start to look for a new club sooner rather than later.


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    Yep... and the fact that my club continues to put girls onstage when the club is full of these guys; not tipping a dollar because they're cheap fucks and why should they when we're just going to continue to be forced to go up and get naked for free anyway... is what really makes me sick.

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    Yup, my club has gotten a new GM and we are changing some things now. One of the things we are changing is raising the drink prices. The new GM could not believe how cheap the drink prices were. Our old GM believed in keeping the drink and cover charges far below the competition in town. Our new GM is like, "WTF?? This is a STRIP CLUB. $2 mixed drinks, $1 and change beers. Customers shouldn't be coming here just to drink!" Our club had really bad drink prices and I am looking forward to the change.

    No drink should ever cost less than $5 at a 1st or 2nd tier SC. $5 drink should be the absolute minimum, with the majority of drinks priced high. There should ALWAYS be a drink minimum. Cover should hardly ever be free, but I don't think cover fees should be sky high. High priced drinks will scare away some the looky loos.
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    Quote Originally Posted by camille27 View Post
    i KNOW it's not as simple as packing your shit and switching clubs, but all the clubs in my area are awful. and yes, it sucks having to go far away to work, but every club is not run by idiots. better you start to look for a new club sooner rather than later.

    I'm looking into a couple of different clubs right now. One is very upscale gown club, w/ a cover charge twice what ours is, higher-priced drinks, champagne/wine, champagne rooms & the ability for customers to buy dance chips w/ credit cards. The house fees are higher though.


    Problem is, there aren't many clubs in my neck of the woods and I have no car. I'm used to living in Miami, where you can't walk 5 feet without ending up at an SC! (I never danced in miami though)

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    serena, i know what you mean. but sc mgmt is very good at fucking bad shit up worse, so chances are, your club will continue to get run into the ground. that's been my experience anyway. so it's good to keep your eyes open, hoard money, and dip out as soon as you can get away.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    Clubs don't care about us, they care about money, and if they can't make money off of us, they'll make it on beer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DorianGrey View Post
    Preaching to the choir. . .fuckin' $4 tequila shot night.

    *DG*

    Oh geez. NOooo! then you have Cheap, Drunk, AND Crazy muthafuckers in the club.
    I am so sorry for you on that one. ouch

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christyismyalias View Post
    Oh geez. NOooo! then you have Cheap, Drunk, AND Crazy muthafuckers in the club.
    I am so sorry for you on that one. ouch
    It's till midnight, but ... still.

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    Default Re: Anyone else pissed about low entrance fees/drink prices?

    I don't believe in overpriced drinks.
    Then customers who want to have a few drinks and relax get drunk and then get pissed off when they realize they've already spent the $100 cash they brought in.
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