
Originally Posted by
Melonie
unfortunately, this year, I'm afraid that super slow clubs aren't just explainable by 'it's the slow season'. A whole lot of changes have been taking place in the economy ... customer paychecks aren't rising, while everything from gasoline to taxes to utility bills to ARM mortgage payments to insurance premiums to the cost of food IS rising ... and rising rapidly.
In the final analysis, spending money on dancers (girls who just dance, anyhow !) is a 'discretionary expenditure' - and one of the first expenditures to be thrown overboard when other necessary expenses have risen in cost and must be covered out of a paycheck that hasn't risen in turn. To make matters worse, in many areas guys who formerly held fairly high paying blue collar jobs have been 'outsourced', and these guys have probably been forced to take 'replacement' jobs that pay significantly less than their old job used to pay, meaning that they simply can no longer afford to make any 'discretionary expenditures' and still manage to make payments on their mortgage, car loan etc.
Sometimes an 'attitude adjustment' from taking a few days off will re-energize a dancer's 'hustle factor' and help her extract more money from club customers. But if fewer customers are coming into the club, and if those customers who are still coming into the club are now walking in with $100 - $200 to spend instead of $300 - $500 - $1000, "you can't get blood out of a stone".
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