Curious Guest
Joined: Apr 2013
Location: NC
Age: 48
Posts: 4
Reviews: 1
Mood: Happy
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Life Support
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Review
| Date at Club: 12/09/2012 |
Customers per Dancer: 1 |
Management: Horrible |
Overall Rating:  |
Mileage Expected: Light Contact |
Booking Delay: No Comment |
| Dancer Quality: 5-6 |
Customers: Travelers |
| Fees: Extreme |
Dances per Customer: 0-1 |
Selling dances: Nearly impossible |
| Hiring Tips: Durig periods of desperation, they do not require any auditions. Periods of desperation come around a lot with this bunch. |
Additional Information
This place keeps its doors open on the backs of the dancers, not on the customers. The customers long ago gave up on this place.
The fee structure is extreme here. In general, you pay $15 house fee and half of your lap dances (generally $15 out of $30). But then they make you pay a dollar every time you use the jukebox.
That may not sound like much, but the place is going to hell in a handbasket now (two bathrooms out of order last time I was there, parking lot in horrible shape, management changes on a biweekly basis), so there are never enough dancers. So dancers end up doubling up.
Imagine this scenario: Two dancers are working a 16 hour shift together. You pay $15 to come to work. Because there are only two dancers, each dancer dances twice per hour. That is $2 per hour for 16 hours, or $32. Then, you get to keep (in general) half of the lap dances that you sell, so at $30 for one lap dance, you give the house $15.
If I sell one lap dance per hour (that would be an extremely good day, let me tell you, as there are multiple hour blocks of time in which there are ZERO customers, and many customers come in only to eat and don't really tip dancers or buy dances) for a 16-hour shift, I will have given the house $240 for lap dances, $15 to walk through the door, and $32 for the use of the jukebox. That is a total of $287 to the house.
My take after 16 hours slaving away? $240, plus tips. Hint: there aren't any tips. I have come off of a 16 hour shift with $6 in tips.
This place is on life support. If you just want to say you worked there, have at it. If money is any one of the top five reasons why you are dancing, don't go near this place.
Even my extremely optimistic scenario above is impossible, as I have never sold one lap dance an hour on a 16 hour shift there.
By contrast, another club that I work I pay $55 up front to walk in the door, and everything I get thereafter is mine. The least I have cleared at that club, for a FOUR hour shift, is $145.
Do the math: Dance at Cafe Risque and pay close to $300 for a 16 hour shift. Go to another club and pay $55 for a four hour shift, and walk out with more money than you would have actually earned at Cafe Risque in four hours than you can get in 16 at Cafe Risque.
This place is despicable. Again, they keep the doors open by exploiting their dancers. The customers gave up on it long ago. I have worked many shifts in which there was generally only one customer at a time in the place, and never more than three at a time on the whole 16 hour shift. And that is with two or three strippers working.
Doubt me? Read the reviews on tuscl.
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