Advice for Strip Club Owners (and dancers) From A Regular
As someone who has become somewhat of a regular at some local clubs, I've noticed a few things that bug me. These things may not bother anyone else, but if anything, they may help keep at least some customers happy.<br />
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1) To the owners who like to hang out in their clubs: BACK OFF THE STAREDOWNS! Sure, you have to keep an eye on the place (both the customers and the employees), but there's a difference between watching over the place and staring someone down because they haven't thrown down 20 bucks in the first 5 minutes that they are there. Sure, if someone has been there for 2 hours and spent no money, then it's ok. But when someone comes in, buys a beer, and sits down to relax a little and drink their beer, let them do so without feeling a hole stared in their heads.<br />
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1a) If you're going to make your presence known, at least be social with the customers. We all know that you're in the business to make money, but at least have the decency to be polite and cordial to the people who are paying your bills. I'm not saying have a 30 minute conversation with every patron, but if they aren't sitting with someone, at least come up and introduce yourself and ask how the visit is going. It can go a long way towards making a customer a regular.<br />
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2) Lay off the security a little bit, or at least tell them to tone down the intimidation factor. Sure, there are some creeps who will try to ignore the rules, but 95% of us (who go to SC's) know and respect both the rules and the limits of the dancers. Security trying to intimidate the patrons will only drive us away, and there are always other clubs to visit.<br />
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3) Tell the dancers to back off a little bit. Sure, they have to push dances or drinks or whatever, but be realistic. When someone sits down with a beer, they want to get more than 1 sip of it before they are pestered for a dance. At the same time, it's nice to be talked to a little before the sales pitch kicks in. Which leads into....<br />
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4) The customers are humans, not ATM machines. If we give you money at the stage, then there's a good chance you'll get a dance or drink out of us. Don't just walk up after you get off stage and instantly ask for a dance. Say hey, introduce yourself, make smalltalk, whatever. Just make us feel human. We're in your club to enjoy ourselves, not just feed money to you. I've kept quite a bit of money in my pockets because the dancer didn't care enough, for whatever reason, to have a 3 minute conversation with me before asking for a dance. At the same time, I have had regulars, who knew for a fact that they would get at least 1 dance from me, have to blow me off because the owners sent them to a group of people who had just walked in. The dancers know their customers and where the money is, trust them on it.<br />
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5) Don't be afraid to let the rules get bent a little bit. I'm not saying run the business as a full on brothel, but don't get pissed if a dancer gets a bit touchy with one of their regulars. The dancers have a great sense of who's going to respect boundaries, trust that sense. I've had times where a regular dancer got fairly touchy with me, and within ten minutes an empty VIP room becomes full. People like a show, and if a dancer wants to put on a tease of a show, let them, within limits of course.<br />
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I know this may seem a little like a rant, but I know that, if things like this would happen more, I'd be more comfortable spending my hard earned dollar more often. I'd like to think others would as well.
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1) To the owners who like to hang out in their clubs: BACK OFF THE STAREDOWNS! Sure, you have to keep an eye on the place (both the customers and the employees), but there's a difference between watching over the place and staring someone down because they haven't thrown down 20 bucks in the first 5 minutes that they are there. Sure, if someone has been there for 2 hours and spent no money, then it's ok. But when someone comes in, buys a beer, and sits down to relax a little and drink their beer, let them do so without feeling a hole stared in their heads.<br />
<br />
1a) If you're going to make your presence known, at least be social with the customers. We all know that you're in the business to make money, but at least have the decency to be polite and cordial to the people who are paying your bills. I'm not saying have a 30 minute conversation with every patron, but if they aren't sitting with someone, at least come up and introduce yourself and ask how the visit is going. It can go a long way towards making a customer a regular.<br />
<br />
2) Lay off the security a little bit, or at least tell them to tone down the intimidation factor. Sure, there are some creeps who will try to ignore the rules, but 95% of us (who go to SC's) know and respect both the rules and the limits of the dancers. Security trying to intimidate the patrons will only drive us away, and there are always other clubs to visit.<br />
<br />
3) Tell the dancers to back off a little bit. Sure, they have to push dances or drinks or whatever, but be realistic. When someone sits down with a beer, they want to get more than 1 sip of it before they are pestered for a dance. At the same time, it's nice to be talked to a little before the sales pitch kicks in. Which leads into....<br />
<br />
4) The customers are humans, not ATM machines. If we give you money at the stage, then there's a good chance you'll get a dance or drink out of us. Don't just walk up after you get off stage and instantly ask for a dance. Say hey, introduce yourself, make smalltalk, whatever. Just make us feel human. We're in your club to enjoy ourselves, not just feed money to you. I've kept quite a bit of money in my pockets because the dancer didn't care enough, for whatever reason, to have a 3 minute conversation with me before asking for a dance. At the same time, I have had regulars, who knew for a fact that they would get at least 1 dance from me, have to blow me off because the owners sent them to a group of people who had just walked in. The dancers know their customers and where the money is, trust them on it.<br />
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5) Don't be afraid to let the rules get bent a little bit. I'm not saying run the business as a full on brothel, but don't get pissed if a dancer gets a bit touchy with one of their regulars. The dancers have a great sense of who's going to respect boundaries, trust that sense. I've had times where a regular dancer got fairly touchy with me, and within ten minutes an empty VIP room becomes full. People like a show, and if a dancer wants to put on a tease of a show, let them, within limits of course.<br />
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I know this may seem a little like a rant, but I know that, if things like this would happen more, I'd be more comfortable spending my hard earned dollar more often. I'd like to think others would as well.
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However, WRT to the rest, I think those are an almost unavoidable consequence of the people strip clubs tend to attract, on both the the customer and dancer side. Intimidating security tends to be more effective than unassuming security, and expecting fucked over dancers to stop trying to maxize their income is probably an excercise in futility. At least until the business practices apparently employed by most club management change. That doesn't appear very likely as, however much we frequent goers might dislike them, they appear to work for the clubs.