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    What do you think about cover charges? Do you think they help keep the cheapskates out, or do you think guys have the attitude of "Well, I already paid 10 bucks just to get in, I don't need to spend much more money tipping or buying dances." In other words, do you think they help business or hurt business at strip clubs?






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    IMHO, cover charges are a way for the clubowner to define the type of clientele he has in his club. There's some very real effect when a club like SCORES charges $30 a head at the door. Upscale big spending customers think nothing of dropping the $30, whereas a cheapo tourist or blue collar customer will think long and hard about it. By "keeping out the riff-raff" customer wise, the average customer spending level at SCORES is WAY above average. This in turn attracts way above average dancers to want to work there, which has a similar effect of "keeping out the riff-raff" in regard to dancers as well. In this sense, SCORES ridiculously high cover charge helps business for both the club and the dancers working there ... well, for the few dancers lucky enough to "measure up" to SCORES hiring standards.

    In "second tier" clubs, if a $10 versus $5 cover charge discourages some customers this only proves the fact that they're on a very tight budget - to the point where they're not going to buy more than a couple of private dances all night anyhow. Here you're clearly dealing with customers who are counting every dollar, so in my opinion charging a $10 versus $5 cover only takes an extra $5 away from the customer and gives it to the club, where if the customer was allowed to keep the extra $5 he would have spent it on a dancer. In that sense, a high cover in a "second tier" club hurts business - at least from a dancer's point of view.

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    I like that a club charges any cover charge, I really believe it does define your clientele.

    Mind you, way up here in the great white north, it is rarely done, cuz almost everybody is broke LOL! KIdding, but very few charge cover, I wish they all would.
    One thing I DO hear customers complain about is male bathroom attendants and tipping them for a towel to dry their hands, apparently this sticks in the craw of many customers.
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    What do you think about cover charges? Do you think they help keep the cheapskates out, or do you think guys have the attitude of "Well, I already paid 10 bucks just to get in, I don't need to spend much more money tipping or buying dances." In other words, do you think they help business or hurt business at strip clubs?
    I agree that the cover charge is meant to keep out the lower class, but what about high class guys who don't drink?they have to pay even though they don't drink-
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    Ahhh, you're referring to "second tier" club cover charges where the $10 or whatever also includes something like two free drinks ? At every club I have ever worked at the customer pays ALL of the cover charge in order to get in the door - whether he uses the free drinks or not is up to him.

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    Our club has specials, sometimes cover is lower with free drinks untill__.
    Otherwise you pay a cover of $20 to get in. That is well worth the price, considering, some guys just come and watch. The management is slow to throw a guy out who is being a "good boy", even though he is not participating in the club activities.
    Cover charges help clubs, the money pays for various replecament of lighting etc. And keeps out alot of guys like the one i mentioned that will from time to time pop in.

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    The guy that pays cover and doesnt drink? Even MORE reason for the club to charge a cover. I mean where else can you go and watch scantilly clad babes stroll around, do beautiful shows down to the buff ( or to the g string anyway)...this should be FREE? I think not.
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    Yep LEIGH a cover charge has it's purpose. At my club it did go up, i don't think it has an effect on business there, because we have our die hard regulars. But it does weed out the guys who just want to come in get hard and go home...beat off.
    The club does not mind guys paying a cover so much and hanging for a short time. They made money and lost nothing but table space. If guys hang for hours they will be questioned, as many girls will then get pissed and tell on them.
    The manager is funny...he tells guys who come to sit at a table without buying drinks or dances (at times), that they can't buy the chair for $20 from the club, each one cost him $50. They usually get up and leave a few moments later, or join the program!

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    Many times a cover charge or how much it is is a regional issue. In some of the areas I work bookings in, there is no cover and in others it may be $3, $5, or even $7.

    As you guys know most businesses of any kind in a geographical area try to price in line with their competition. And in some more smaller towns where a lot of regulars patronize the clubs several times a week a cover charge would be dertrimental to their business compared to an area with lots of tourists who expect to pay.

    You'll notice the same with drink prices. Virtually every club in Phoenix and Tucson offers 2/1 happy hour drinks and in large Texas cities clubs offer a buffet in lieu of cheap drinks and a domestic beer runs about $5.75 and mixed drink over $7.

    There are so few truly upscale venues that their pricing really does not matter. For the mainstream clubs just being competitive is what they all try to do.

    As far as how loose the patrons are with spending money on us it just depends on the mix of customers that walk in the door that day.

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    AT MY GIRLFRIENDS CLUB IN NY, YOU HAVE TO PAY 10$ TO GET IN AND BUY A DRINK WHEN YOU GET IN FOR 8$, BASICALLY 18$ TO WALK THROUGH THE DOOR. THEIS IS ONE OF THE BEST CLUBS IN NY THOUGH, IN THE SAME CLASS AS SCORES. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE ARE THINKING ABOUT HER TRYING OUT SCORES TO SEE IF SHE DOES ANY BETTER THAN WHERE SHE IS NOW

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