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    SCO, are you in NOLA? If so, may I pleeeease recommend you NOT hire any of the current guys working management in other NOLA stripclubs. With the rarest of exceptions, the guys who've been floating through NOLA strip clubs are jaded, untrainable and NOT what you say you want in a manager. It might be more difficult to get quality staff who haven't gotten "old" and set in their crappy unproductive ways, but it'll be worth it in the long run. Heck, this advice could be applied to any area, really. I just know that NOLA always seemed to have a particular problem with the same bad managers floating around from one club to another - they get kicked out of one and hired in another the next day. And guess what? At the new club they immediately start doing the same crap that got them fired at the last one.

    The only managers I remember in NOLA who were worth a damn were Sheriffe (sp?) at Rick's and Hank at what used to be Maiden Voyage. The rest sucked some serious ass.

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    No, Crow/Rhi, my goal wasn't to slag all waitresses. I have been one and have worked with wonderful ones. I pay particular attention to the bad ones because I know my restaurant manager would have bounced them in a week for ignoring customers and missing opportunities to sell as much as you can as quickly as you can. We were trained to never neglect the customer and get that bill as high as you can to improve your tip and try to make regulars out of the group. I'm the rare hospitality worker who actually loved my job and customers and took pride in my section and the companies for which I worked. But...dancing pays better!

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    It really isn't that difficult to monitor "employees" at a strip club. There are managers. owners, and persons in charge in a club every day/night.

    Let me ask you guys this, in a store if the lines get long at the registers another checker is called by the manager, right? Many stores ask if you need help out with your groceries. You go to a department store and are asked if you want to start a dressing room.

    If you were made manager in a club now, what is your job? To make sure the help is doing their jobs and providing good customer service, to handle employee problems, and handle and oversee the money flow.

    Your job is to tell the waitresses to make sure they get to a table as soon as a customer gets seated, to check on him when his glass is about 1/3 empty, and to smile and be friendly. Your job is to tell dancers that they don't get money if they don't approach every customer with a smile, chat briefly, and ask for dances. If they are not working the crowd, tell them to, and watch them on the floor. Tell your bouncers to monitor the dances, and let the girls and the bouncer know that no sex is to go on and no customers touching the girls.

    The more customer service and rules are ENFORCED, the less likely the waitresses and dancers will violate them.

    A strip club CAN and SHOULD operate like any customer oriented mainstream business. The fact that they don't is one reason why this business is on the decline.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimist
    No, Crow/Rhi, my goal wasn't to slag all waitresses. I have been one and have worked with wonderful ones. I pay particular attention to the bad ones because I know my restaurant manager would have bounced them in a week for ignoring customers and missing opportunities to sell as much as you can as quickly as you can. We were trained to never neglect the customer and get that bill as high as you can to improve your tip and try to make regulars out of the group. I'm the rare hospitality worker who actually loved my job and customers and took pride in my section and the companies for which I worked. But...dancing pays better!
    So true! of course I understand, as I said you have valid points. I just wish the ( SC ) managers were so keen on the waitresses. They don't hesitate to speak to me when I'm sitting by myself, contemplating which of the two guys to go and sit with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bridgette
    The only thing the other girls likely notice is that she makes more money than them and probably accuse her of doing extras. Most lazy strippers don't/can't/won't notice that the way a girl like that makes her money is by being friendly, putting on a show, and actually trying to sell rather than just hanging at the bar waiting for someone to throw money at them.

    OMG that has just happened to me!! Our old highest earner (who ANSWERS her PHONE in the middle of dances ALL THE TIME) lost a heap of customers to me, cos Im friendly etc, I made $300 in 3 hours, she took home $75 after 8 hours. Funnily the VERY next day the head girl says "I know you're not, but someone said about you doing extras"

    I explained about the other girls, and the head girl just laughed the whole extras thing off.

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    Ha! I think I've seen this scenario in just about every club I've worked in and just about every night that I have worked! Basically it boils down to training, or rather the absence of it. I assume the training doesn't exist because management thinks it's uneccessary and not worth the effort due to the high turnover of dancers and bar staff (which is probably due to them not maximising the potential income and going home with less money than desired). The good old vicious circle.
    It isn't exclusive to SC I see it frequently in just about every sales based business. I constantyly get ignored by low-paid untrained junior staff that are more interested in finishing thier phone conversation with a mate than serving, or waves me in the general direction of the back of the store when I ask where is...?

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