What's it like to wait tables at a club? What does the waitstaff do? Is it a good way to start for someone who's too scared to dance right off the bat?

What's it like to wait tables at a club? What does the waitstaff do? Is it a good way to start for someone who's too scared to dance right off the bat?
Last edited by legallyblonde502; 12-12-2012 at 11:24 PM.
If you mean is it a good way to start dancing, imo, no. You can just start dancing. That's what almost every girl does. It's not going to be a smooth transition anyway.
Do you plan to be a dancer?
Agreed. If you want to dance, dance. Apples and oranges.
I'd grab my trumpet and I'd do a stripper sound, like the old Louis Armstrong, real raspy. And the people would go nuts! Then I knew that the sexual, sensual, guttural sound, that throbbing sound, is where it's at.

Maybe at some point but I brought it up casually with my boyfriend a few months ago and he wasn't cool with it. I thought waitressing would be good because it gets me used to the scene. I would've been too nervous to start dancing without ever even being in a club before. I wouldn't have made it in the door, haha.
Also when I interviewed one of the dancers was nice to me and said she hoped to see me. I wasn't expecting that.
Do you get tips or do customers only pay attention to the dancers?
Do you have serving experience? If not, it is going to be hard to get a waitress job anyway. There is a lot of competition in the field. And of course you get tips, it's just not as high of an income as dancing, yet it is more steady.
If your boyfriend isn't cool with you dancing now, he won't suddenly be cool with it in a few months just because you've been waitressing for a while. You need to decide what's more important to you: the relationship or dancing.
Before you decide if it's dancing or not, go visit a club already. The best way of knowing what to expect is to just go find out for yourself because while the basic premise is the same, clubs vary.



Waiting tables at a club is a lot like waiting tables anywhere else, except you are working in a very dark environment, with loud music, wearing underwear and heels (most clubs.) Some customers will tip you more than they would at any other bar, and others will completely stiff you anyways. You can make good money waitressing, but if there aren't many customers, there is only so much money you can get out of them. However, there can only be 1 customer in the club and a dancer can work him over for a couple hundred bucks. Waitresses are the forbidden fruit of the club, so you'll get many pleas from customers for just ONEEEE table dance or just ONEEE look at your breasts, often accompanied by offers for a lot of money. In my experience, most waitresses do succumb to the pressure and decide to try dancing and more often than not, they don't look back.
I was like you before I started dancing. I had never even been inside of a strip club before I went in and applied. I thought about trying it a lot, but was too scared and so I kept working at my shitty job, just dreaming of what I would do if I had all that money. FINALLY I had a friend start dancing and I thought, well if she can do it, I can too. That was all I needed to get my butt in there and audition. Was it scary as hell? Yes. Did I look like I had no idea what I was doing on stage? Hell yes. The first few weeks are full of embarrassing stories for me as there is no training period with dancing, you are just thrown into the mix. However, even though my first couple of weeks were super awkward, I'm glad I just jumped right in and started making good money right off the bat rather than wasting my time waitressing for a few weeks/months to start out with. A big perk of dancing vs waitressing is that in most clubs, dancers don't have schedules, and you can pretty much just work whenever you want.
Also, obviously not all men are the same but here here is my experience with my boyfriend: I had brought up dancing to my boyfriend before I started and he seemed disgusted by girls that would dance for strange men in their underwear. Then, a few days after my friend started, I went and auditioned and got hired, and I told him that I had already gotten hired at a club and that I intended to give it a try because I could make more money, working way less than 40hrs/week, and I could make sure I was off work whenever he was, and we could spend a lot of time together. He wasn't thrilled, but he changed his tune once the cash started rolling in. He is now my husband, and we can afford to live a comfortable lifestyle we could have never afforded before. We take many vacations, and get to have a lot of fun.
I encourage you to give dancing a try if it is something you're interested in, because I have no regrets, and it has changed my life for the better. Good luck to you!
I had never been in a club before when I decided I was going to start dancing. Just go with a GF to a club for a drink or two. I had already called a club for an audition before I had ever stepped foot in a club. If your want to dance then dance. Learning the ropes to waitressing just so you can get used to the atmosphere seems like a lot of hard work for nothing. Unless of course you actually want to be a waitress then by all means do that.

I also didn't have any experience, I just called the club and scheduled an audition. The place was a dive anyway, and the house mom wasn't there when she said she would be, so I just talked to the manager, he just hired me on the spot and a half hour later I was on the stage. I had no idea what I was doing, and the other girls were nice and tried to help me out by seating me with a guy that had just come in, but the conversation was awkward. I ended up leaving the first hour or so after the club opened.
If you want to get used to the scene you are just going to have to go into the club and check it out. The pole dancing and hustle you learn after you start dancing, or you can read up on here and check out some videos.
Good luck either way
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