To Tip or Not to Tip?

I was once out on the smoker's patio at Club X with another dancer and the bouncer comes out and tells the dancer "a guy in there is giving me a good vibe and he just gave me a c note and told me to send over hot girls" I need you to go out there and greet him.

The request for tips in society is getting ridiculous. Now the person who slides your phone-ordered pizza across the counter to you when you pick it up and then takes your money is asking for a tip via a jar next to the register. I leave a buck. I know these people are just trying to make a living, but it gets a bit obnoxious sometimes with so many hands being held out. And I'm one who doesn't hesitate to tip for service when it's appropriate.

However, here's another perspective I learned from my brother-in-law: you get more in the long run by greasing palms that you save by being stingy. He gets the best service everywhere and people welcome him by his name with respect, as in "hello Mr._______." So there's good reason to tip when it makes sense.

Now back to our situation. In SCs I always look for the "pay to play" factor. Sometimes it's tipping more than the norm, tipping more people than the norm, sometimes it's buying more drinks than the norm. It's just the cost of a day/night out. Plan on it, budget for it. But if you can play without paying, why throw money around unless you need to make a big impression. But if it's really expected (i.e. the green version of dress for success) play along and do what seems right for the environment you're in.

If you're in a high end GC, expect to tip everybody. If you're in a wanabe club, I would expect to tip only a waitress or a bartender. At my two favorite clubs, I usually leave at least $10 for the bartender or waitress even if I have only one or two drinks. Why not, I'm usually spending way more than that with the dancers.

The only strip club that I know of that does not have a door girl/door bouncer panhandling for tips is kahoot's, which is just one of the many reasons why it is my favorite SC in Columbus. If it was not for kahoot's I would be driving to dayton for strip clubs. Or maybe even indianapolis.

I still usually leave a $1 tip for kahoot's door girl but it is nice not hearing "Cover is $10-15 plus you can leave a $1 tip for me" when I go to the front desk at dreamgirls, vanity, etc.

I tip at the stage only. I have given the occasional dancer that really gave extras without asking a tip.

I usually only tip the dancers and waitstaff. Sometimes I will tip the doorgirl if she is really hot. However, at Platinum Plus in Lexington, I tried to tip the door girl and it was rejected. I was told their policy is no tips to the doorgirl.

I tip dancers on stage (of course), will tip a dancer for a particularly good LD, and tip the bartender/waitstaff as I would in a regular bar, usually rounding up to the next dollar on the price of a drink. If there is a tip jar at the entrance, I will occasionally toss in a dollar out of whatever change I got back from paying the cover. I can't ever remember tipping a bouncer.

I find it preferable to do another dance than flat out tipping. To each his own.

I tip the bathroom guy 5 bucks on my first visit, then I grab a handful of mints and use his cologne every time I pee. And I pee alot on a 5 hour shift.

If I get dances, no bouncer tip. If I do a Champagne room, I tip $5 on the $75 15 min, and $10 on the 30 minutes. That usually stretches the time a bit and allows for no interruptions. I get free drinks frequently, get swag, and get hot girls brought over by the bouncer. Plus they kicked out a guy who tried to fight me. Kicked his ass, too. LOL!

One dancer tried to hit me up for a tip on a regular lapdance. No way.

I tip the door girl, bar tenders,waitresses and of course the girls on stage. Only once tipped a bouncer. I had a flat tire in the parking lot, my cell phone died. He called AA for me and then came back ITC to let me know they had arrived. He got a $5er.

I look at tips the way I look at sales taxes. If I am bothered somehow by the price of a tip, then I am likely to be really bothered by the price of whatever item or service that I am getting before the tip even comes into play. If you can't afford the sales tax for something, then you almost certainly can't afford the item in question!

An extra buck or two might seem like nothing to you & me, but it makes a big difference in a tipped employee's life for sure. I don't have much of a problem with tipping.

Door girl - $1
Bathroom guy - $1 for the poor bastard
Waitress/Bartender - $1-2 per drink
Dancers (stage tips) - $1-2 per set
Dancers (lap dances) - ???

This is where it gets tricky. When a waitress knows I'm a good tipper I can usually count on getting as good or better service the next time I visit. My favorite waitress used to spot me coming in, grab an ice cold bottle of my favorite brew, and set in down in front of me just as I sat down at a table. (Which was cool and always impressed anyone watching).

I haven't seen as strong a correlation between tipping dancers after a lap dance and mileage the next time out. Sometimes the mileage has actually gone done, and she still expected the tip. So in general I've been going with the no tips after LD policy.

That said, at the club I've been checking out I did tip a couple dancers who cheerfully broke the house "rules" during our dances, just to let them know I appreciated their rule breaking behavior, so we'll see how that goes.

On a similar but related note, I find that my time in the SC is making me tip ever so more generously in real life. Whenever someone does something nice, the first thing that flashes into my mind is:

"Hell, I tip girls $2 just for shaking their tits in my face."

Then the poor schlub who just did something nice usually gets $2 too.

No matter how much you tip a dancer it will never be enough for them to be happy and to fulfill their princess fantasy of getting paid $10k for a lap dance....waitresses on the other hand are more realistic and a $10 tip to them means a hell of a lot more than a $10 tip to a dancer. I have tipped plenty of times with lap dances to know that it is just throwing money away.

I'm so sick of the attitudes of bartenders that they are "entitled." If these cheap and greedy owners would pay their employees there would be no need. It's also BS that places chg. cover @door when they don't pay the dancers and they hound u for tips. Casino employees also fall into this category. It's tough enough to beat neg.-expectation games w/o having to worry about paying their miserable, greedy dealers and slot attendants. I have no problem tipping cocktail girls if drinks are free but some casinos charge for drinks and it's BS that they expect tips when they can well afford to pay the bartender. It seems bartenders feel entitled the minute they get behind the bar. You expect a dollar for popping a bottle top, REALLY! Get a real job you lazy twits. You really don't know what it's like to work for a living. Besides, they don't pay income tax on their tips, the greedy money-mongers. then they brag about how much they make. I don't make your Porsche payments any more.

I've only tipped a floater/bouncer once. It was in an mid-level club where it was well known that if you slipped this guy a twenty he'd look the other way when you were in the VIP lounge. Money well spent.

RickyBoyDugan loves to grease the bouncers and brag about it.

I tipped a bouncer once. Then he gasped for breath as the Guillotine showed him who was in charge.