Clubs that Get It and Clubs that Don't
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 8:49 PM
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How do you know if the club management doesn't get it? Here's a good example:<br />
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I visited the Pink Poodle in San Jose around 6:30pm when the day shift was just wrapping up. The physical club was nice enough, but after 3 songs went by and no dancers, I asked the waitress about it. She said, "No one's tipping, so no one's dancing". Soon the DJ even came on and started hounding everyone to move up to the tip row or else. (don't believe me? read some of the reviews for this club)<br />
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Finally after a few patrons volunteered some bills to test the waters, a dancer came up on stage. What do you know? People kept on tipping! Amazing how that works!!<br />
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Another thing, no lap dances going on. Hmmm, why is that? After talking to one of the girls (the only one who bothered to welcome me to the club - give her credit it was with a polite, friendly smile not a hustle and pressure) and finding out that the lap dances were $40 ... a SONG! (of which the dancer gets $15 and club $25) I started to put things together. <br />
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I don't pretend to speak for all the dancers, but I have had a few tell me that they much prefer lap dances to being on stage. If you think about it, wouldn't you rather interact one-on-one, maybe have some pleasant conversation, get treated like a person, receive compliments and decent money for your efforts instead of being up on stage like a piece of meat fighting for ones? Kind of makes sense.<br />
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A three minute song must feel like forever on stage and while it may take a couple more songs before a customer feels like they are getting a fair deal on a lap dance, it gives a chance for patron and dancer to get comfortable and helps her shift go by quicker. (It is her job, after all, ya think?)<br />
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I explained to the dancer I talked to that I liked her but I wasn't buying it. Instead, on her last stage dance, I sat up, tipped her well and she gave me basically a private show. At the end, I slipped her a $20, hers to keep, she did the work and I didn't want her to have to give to the club. She thanked me several times and told me what a long, slow day it had been. Maybe it would have gone by a little better for her if she had spent it a different way.<br />
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This club doesn't get it. No lap dances going on, means your dances are overpriced. Customers looking like they'd rather be somewhere else means they'll go somewhere else. No dancers on stage means they have no motivation to sell it. They don't dance for ones, they dance to advertise lap dances. Duh! (Duh, Duh, Duh!!)<br />
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A club that gets it? Alaskan Bush in Phoenix. A low one song rate for try it out lappers and discount on several songs. NUDE lap dances, not topless or g-string. Lots of smiling happy dancers and customers, lots of pretty girls working. (Oh and lots of customers tipping, too)</p>
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