
Originally Posted by
Tina
Realistically most clubs with no liquor license have higher fees. Juice bars as a whole do far less volume than full bar clubs. Most full bar clubs in average cities have reasonable flat house fees in the $25-$60 range, plus either a flat fee to the DJ of $10-$15 or 10% of your earnings, plus maybe $5 to each bouncer. Of course some cities full bar clubs charge $140 a night. Minneapolis is an example of that. Many girls who live there work in the surrounding small towns where the club keeps $5 a dance, but pays $300-$400 base pay for a 6 night week, and a tip out of around $20 nightly, as Twin City clubs have erratic earnings sometimes and the hustle gets really intense constantly worrying if you will lose money or make money every night you work. In some instances money in smaller places is far more steady than big glitzy ones.
It can be EXTREMELY stressful for a full time dancer to have to pay high house fees when she is working with as many or more dancers as customers night after night. Being able to go through the motions nightly and sell dances, without having to work around more dancers than customers to get a guy to spend money on you speaks volumes.
California liquor laws where clubs are concerned are the problem. Their package liquor laws of being able to buy liquor in any type of strore from 6-2, 7 days a week are some of the most liberal in the country. But in strip clubs, the limited contact allowed in full bar clubs has ruined the business for dancers, and forced the bulk of the business into high hustle, rip off juice bars, where customers have to settle for 2 minute long overpriced lap dances, while sipping on a $10 soda.
On the flip side, having minimal or no house fees, and only paying for each dance sold, keeps one from going home in the hole, since a dancer is only paying money when she makes it. Clubs in Indianapolis are like that.
I work in clubs where dancers get paid a base pay, but we are actually paying ourselves most of the money since they take money from our dances.
NO club can afford to pay every girl working. Think about it. How could a club with 50 girls on the floor afford to pay every dancer. Think like a club owner, not a dancer.
Legal costs are a big issue. Strip clubs virtually everywhere are threatened with closure. Look at what is happening in the state of Minnesota, Tampa FL, Seattle and Scottsdale AZ right now. It costs thousands and in some cases millions of dollars to fight the conservatives and be able to keep the doors open, and the lap dances going on. Our money pays for that.
Plus, why should a club operate with no profit? As dancers we work for a profit. If a club is not generating a profit, it will close right?
If one day, conservatives stop having political clout in this country, us liberal people get our acts and money together and take over and never pander to conservative bribes, adult businesses can stop being political targets.
What is needed is a strip club mediation board so that mediation leaders, club owners and dancers, can agree on fair house fees and tip outs.
That will never happen with the direction this country is going now, and every strip club, modeling studio, non therapeutic massage parlor, and adult bookstore is fighting for it's life, will it?
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