I'm in Boston for a week visiting an old friend, and thought I'd work a few days while I was up here. I don't have a car, so I'm limited to the two clubs in Boston proper, one of which -- the nicer one -- doesn't hire travelling dancers.
So I've been working a few days this week at a very strange Cheers-with-tits type bar where fully nude, no-contact private dances are $25 a pop. They are HARD to sell. Girls make the majority of their money the old school way, selling $30 "ladies drinks." The deal is that you sit with the customer for as long as it takes you to drink the drink. Weird thing is, the same guys who will not for the life of them go into a private room with you and watch you get naked will spend crazy ammounts of money on these drinks. It's a blue-collar bar, and most of these guys don't seem like the type with a ton of money, but they will readily spend $120-300 on these drinks. The bad thing is, dancers see only $4 of this, with the remaining $26 going to the club. You can only finish a drink every 10 minutes or so. So if a guy spends $300 and you sit with him for a little less than two hours, you get $40. So yeah, it's a huge rip-off place for dancers AND customers.
But I thought the drink-commission system was interesting. What really amazed me is how readily the guys would pay these outrages prices for not really much more than ten minutes of your conversation, and maybe to put their arms around you while you talk. I wonder if guys have a conditioned reflex that when at bars, they should be buying drinks for pretty girls. I wonder why more clubs don't do this. If I'd been making a reasonable commission, like maybe $10-15 out of the $30, I'd have been happy to hustle drinks all night long. But after a few days I couldn't handle making that much money for the club and that little for myself, and I left.



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