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RE: Gold Club Strip Club Review
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Review
| Date at Club: 07/20/2005 |
Customers per Dancer: No Comment |
Management: The Best |
Overall Rating:  |
Mileage Expected: Light Contact |
Booking Delay: No Comment |
| Dancer Quality: 7-8 |
Customers: Mixed |
| Fees: Average |
Dances per Customer: 2-3 |
Selling dances: Average |
| Hiring Tips: None |
Additional Information
I worked at the Gold Club for only three months, but I loved it. It's the largest/nicest club in the Baton Rouge area (though still relatively small compared to a lot of clubs in other cities). The dancers and shot girls are friendly and honest, and the staff is helpful and businesslike. It's generally slow during the day, and only picks up around 10pm (I worked in the summer, though, so there are probably more customers the rest of the year). Football season is apparently the time to make megabucks. This is an extremely clean club, but a little light touching is allowed.
GC is open 3pm to 2am Monday through Saturday. If you are ready to go on the floor at 3, there is no house fee. At 4, the house fee is $10, and it increases in $5 increments until 9pm, which is the latest dancers can come in. If you start at 4 or earlier, you can leave at midnight. If you start at 5 you can leave at 1am, and any later you must stay until close. Dancers must work three nights a week. After three nights, there is no house fee. About 25 dancers work a night; most come in at 7pm or later.
*Minimum* tipouts:
Housemom - $10
DJ - $10
Floorguys (there are several, they split what you give them) - $10
Valet - $5
The valet parks your car and brings it to you when you leave, or if you stay until close, the floor guys clear the parking lot of customers, make sure everything is safe, and then all the dancers leave in a herd. GC seems to really care about their employees' safety. If you get too drunk, they call a cab for you or have you call someone else to pick you up. And then you get reprimanded. ;] They like their strippers safe, sober, and sane.
Dance prices:
$15 for a table dance downstairs
$30 for a single VIP dance
$150 dancer fee + $35 room fee for 1/2 hour VIP stay
$300 + $35 for a full hour in VIP
Downstairs table dances are done on these annoying little 16" pedastals. You must keep both feet on them at all times, and a no-touch by customers policy is strictly enforced. A dance is usually part air dance and part semi-lap dance (most dancers kneel on the customers thighs to get a little closer). Dancers get all $15 from table dances, and customers usually tip $5 to make it an even $20.
VIP dances are better for both dancer and customer. It's an actual lap dance, though grindage is generally light and minimal (if present at all -- many/most girls choose not to). It's very easy to sell multiple VIP dances, and it's easy to upsell from table dance to VIP because of the restrictions on touching during a table dance. The house keeps $10 of each VIP dance, dancer gets $20.
The $35 room fee for VIP sessions goes to the house, anything else goes to the dancer. Dancers are allowed to ask for up to $200 for a half-hour and $300 for an hour, and can negotiate down if they want. I always asked for $150 and $300 -- usually it was no problem. Occasionally club regulars will only go up for their usual amount (often $100). Customers often tipped $20 - 50 more when the time was up.
There are deals concerning bottles of champagne and trays of shots and involving free VIP time, but I don't know the details.
Shot girls sell shots out of these little test tube things and sell dances. I think the shot is $5 and dance is extra, but I'm not sure how much. Shot girls remove no clothing and don't have to dance on a pedastal. They can go upstairs to VIP, but I'm not sure the cost of that either. I often heard shot girls complaining about not getting to keep enough of the money they made, so I don't recommend it. They also had a stricter schedule. You're probably better off stripping.
Stage rotation:
There are three "stages" -- main, show bar, and satellite. If there are few dancers, only main is open and a set is three songs. Once more girls come in, sets are two songs, and eventually show bar is opened. If there are a bazillion girls working, satellite is opened, but this was pretty rare while I worked there. The main stage projects from the back wall of the club and there is a pole. Show bar is a long, wide bar on one side of the club. Satellite is a tiny stage near the entrance and the stairs to the upstairs VIP area. Customers tip at all stages. You're dressed during the first song and topless with a t-back/thong during the second. A lot of girls do easy to somewhat advanced pole work, but it's not required (I never did any).
To work or even audition at the GC, you have to have an East Baton Rouge Parish exotic dancer's license. It's $25 and you have to attend an alcohol education class.
There's usually a feature dancer who does two or three shows a night for a week. Table dances can't be given during the feature show, but shot dances can. Most dancers use the feature's performance time to take a break in the dressing room or just relax with a customer and enjoy the show. Often after a particularly messy feature show (say, one that gets the stage wet or covered in whipped cream) there will be a 2-for-1 t-shirt dance to give the girls and customers something to do while the poor floor guys tidy up the mess. The shirt and two table dances costs $25, $10 goes to the house. If you can't sell your shirt and dances, you just give the shirt back. Most girls sell theirs, though. It's a good time to sell to those guys who were like, "Eh... maybe later." earlier in the night.
Seriously, I love this place. I wish I could pack it up and take it with me wherever I move. Again, I only worked here for a short time, so if some of this info is inaccurate, I apologize!
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