Inside the bar stages
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
I do not like these and from many of the reviews I’ve read seems most SCers don’t like them either.
I’m not much of a stage tipper but when I stage tip I prefer to get up close and personal.
I wonder why some SCs do this? I “assume” it could be b/c:
+ an area/city with strict no-touch local ordinances
+ a very small SC w/ not much space and thus having the stage inside the bar would give everyone around the bar a view
+ moron owners not having a clue
May not be the norm; but I have seen to many SCs w/ this setup and it sucks and I don’t understand why they would do it this way.
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For example, consider Cheerleaders Pittsburgh. The two main stages are inside the two main bars requiring the dollar toss shit. Third stage is sort of a strip connecting the two where there is about 6 stage side seats. Clearly it is not illegal to have stage side seats at this location. FWIW, there also doesn't seem to be tip parade afterward, mainly only the tossed tips.
Another similar example, Savannah's Harrisburg. The stage is shaped like two overlapping circles (like the master card logo). The lower circle has stage side seating where the dancers are mostly covered, but not always and tits in face is know to happen at the lower stage. The bar takes up about 80% of the circumference of the upper circle. Many customers dollar toss over the bar, but there is one f-ing chair at the upper stage that isn't affected by the bar stand off.
To be fair, I could be more forgiving of the stage inside the bar setup in certain areas where a standoff is required by law (for example the moats around stages in some so cal clubs)... but I think the places I've seen stage moats were also all no alcohol allowed.
I think there is a little logic to it though, I'm thinking the idea is that they want to get guys sitting at the bar in the hopes they'll buy drinks. There also may be a laziness/historic aspect too. Meaning, they may may have been required to have a barrier between nude dancers and customers when they initially opened, but its no longer required and they just haven't spent the cash to remodel.
There has to be something to it though, as there's a number of clubs that have both behind the bar stages and stages with front row seating and in those clubs they usually start with the behind the bar stage then open up the others when business picks up. For example, all three S. FL Cheetah's operate that way. While I wouldn't say their mgmt/ownership is perfect, I think the success of those clubs says something about them knowing what makes money in SC's.
It makes more sense if it's a secondary stage.
This is also the case on the Block in Baltimore.
Other clubs I know that do this are the Glass Slipper in Boston and Elans in Danbury CT.
So yes shadow, I think you are right in that it is primarily a northeast thing, though still a minority of all the clubs in the NE. It works out real good for the dancers, since they all do tip walks around the inside of the bars after their sets and guys are under a lot of pressure to tip at least a buck. The problem is that this can get out of hand at clubs that pakc their stages full of girls, since all of these girls are running a tip walk train at the end of each stage set.
But if you have never played hit the pussy with rolled up dollar bills at Show-n-tel then it may be worth a visit. Some girls even put a cup under their pussies and encourage bank shots. It is very smart really, since some guys cannot resist taking several shots and some of those girls collect a lot of tips that way.
I mostly sit at the bar. Now I have a girl right in front of me stripping. If I want to tip her in some cases I have to lean forward in other cases I give the $ to the bartendar to give to her. I don't have to get up and walk to a stage somewhere else.
Cheetah's as Dolfan mentioned has stages inside the bars and a mainstage and satelite stages. It benefits the bar sitters and the mainstage sitters and the table sitters.
For a small club the stage inside the bar is economical. All the small clubs I've been to have that(Playmates, Secrets, The Mint).
I've never seen anything like that in a strip club.
I must be spoiled here in Detroit where you can go up to each girl on stage, touch, hug, etc. Having the girls be so far away you can't touch them or tip them in their g-strings seems a bit strange to me. But, I guess there are all kinds of different ways to run a strip club...
Dammit - you still haven't been to Clermont Lounge? :)
* For those tired of the "angels debate", there's another argument over how many Clermonts you could fit on the head of a pin. (If you're too young to get that, bite me.)
* The club is older than I am. Local laws/regulations may have been tighter back in the 19[censored]
* I'm not 100% sure that it's always had strippers. So the thought may have been: "Hey! You know what people like? Naked chicks. But where are we gonna put them?"