Dancer Drinks ?
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
I had read on the discussion board about overpriced dancer drinks but only recall having experienced it once at a hole in the wall SC that I rarely visit – so I thought it was something rare. Actually, at that time I got the dancer-drink-rob-hustle (prior to joining TUSCL), I thought maybe the dancer j\had just ordered a particularly expensive drink.
I was in dump last night (Saturday eve) and got hit with the dancer-drink-rob-hustle ($20/drink).
I had bought a dancer a drink and did not get hit w/ the $20 price tag until after the drink had been poured - I was damn pissed. Then another dancer was also really pushing for a drink and I asked her straight up if the club pushed/forced them to get customers to buy them drinks at these exorbitant prices - she told me yes.
Question:
Does anyone know if clubs actually force these dancers to sell a certain # of drinks and if there are penalties to them if they don’t – of if dancers just push the drinks b/c they get a cut?
I was in dump last night (Saturday eve) and got hit with the dancer-drink-rob-hustle ($20/drink).
I had bought a dancer a drink and did not get hit w/ the $20 price tag until after the drink had been poured - I was damn pissed. Then another dancer was also really pushing for a drink and I asked her straight up if the club pushed/forced them to get customers to buy them drinks at these exorbitant prices - she told me yes.
Question:
Does anyone know if clubs actually force these dancers to sell a certain # of drinks and if there are penalties to them if they don’t – of if dancers just push the drinks b/c they get a cut?
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This club also has them pay $25 to be there.
I have noticed that the girls are more pushy as of late.
Does anyone know if clubs actually force these dancers to sell a certain # of drinks and if there are penalties to them if they don’t"
Yes Papi, I've been told by dancers that they must sell a set # of drinks and there can be penalties.
@ Dolfan: In Southern California clubs that experience was common. Put a little more simply, dancers at many clubs had a drink quota to sell (perhaps eight per shift). If they didn't get customers to buy all of those, they had to pay for the unsold drinks themselves, thus increasing their house fee for that shift.
@ grand1511: What you mentioned is also common at the eight Deja Vu clubs here in Seattle. When ladies drinks are sold, the dancer gets half of the drink price purchased by the customer. However, at the Vu clubs here, the waitresses make sure that the dancer gets credit for the drink sale. There are no tickets given to the dancer. In your case, the tickets are worth cash. So, the dancers will protect them just like their other earnings.
It's another way the dancers can make money. I like it a lot better than the drink quota system. In the quota system dancers at many clubs can be fired if they decline to have the customer buy a drink when the waitress asks the customer, "Wanna buy the lady a drink?"
Some see the drinks as the way of loosening guys up for the dances, others want to have it be a big profit center on their own.
Either way it is not as if they want to site there having a drink with you. Not only are you not buying a dance you are keeping them from selling a dance to somebody else. So that has to factor into the economics.
Still $20 is a rip-off unless it is a whole bottle.
Name the clubs and dancers!
Baltimore, most particularly the Block, is a place where the practice still flourishes and those drinks run anywhere from $20 to $30 a pop. The girls and the bartenders both earn a cut, so the girls tend to suck them down quickly and the bartenders are always right there asking you to buy another.
Downtown Boston is another place where this can still be found. The Glass Slipper is notorious for pushing $30 dancer drinks. In fact, the girls are not allowed to sit with you for any length of time if you do not purchase at least one.
I also ran into this practice in Mobile, AL, though it varies from club to club as some clubs sell special dancer drinks and others do not. A few years back I actually appreciated this in one club because a $50 dancer drink kept her there entertaining me for a solid hour.
From what I have been told from the girls in some of these clubs, there are generally economic ramifications if they do not sell enough drinks, but I have never been interested enough the shake out the details. What I can say is that these girls often dislike the practice as much as customers because they often receive only a small cut of the drink price, yet have to sit there and spend the time drinking it.
Now outside of the places above, which general only allow customers to buy dancers those special drinks, I also visit some clubs in Queens and CT that do not "require" that dancers receive special drinks, but do have mini-champagne bottle options from which the dancers receive small %s. These usually run about $20. Any girl who orders one of these when she could have ordered a regular drink had better ask me first or she is dead to me as far as any additional spending.
Seriously, did you think *somebody* wasn't gonna take that kind of straight line and run with it? Just be thankful it was me, instead of a *real* jerkwad.
Club – Porky’s (Hialeah/Miami)
Dancers – Seemed like all of them were under pressure, almost begging, more than pushing IMO