Tip Outs
shailynn
They never tell you what you need to know.
So here's a discussion topic I never fully understood.
Stage Tip Out.
I know at several clubs, girls can pay $xxx amount so they don't have to go on stage. I think I rarely hear a number under $100 and I have heard as high as $250.
Now, at a super busy club such as sapphires in Vegas, bourbon street in phx, I can see girls paying the fee to avoid stage time, because they can quickly make up that $200 tip out in lappers, plus they save all that time off stage where they don't make many tips anyway.
Here's what I don't get, slower clubs? I was out last week at a dead club and the stripper working me "bought herself off the stage rotation," but was complaining that she needed to make $500 that night. She spent the majority of the evening sitting playing on her phone, so why didn't she just go on stage and then her nightly goal may have gone down to $400. Also, maybe her stage presence may have enticed a PL to get a lap dance from her to where they would notice her versus her going unnoticed, sitting in a booth in the corner tapping on her phone?
Stage Tip Out.
I know at several clubs, girls can pay $xxx amount so they don't have to go on stage. I think I rarely hear a number under $100 and I have heard as high as $250.
Now, at a super busy club such as sapphires in Vegas, bourbon street in phx, I can see girls paying the fee to avoid stage time, because they can quickly make up that $200 tip out in lappers, plus they save all that time off stage where they don't make many tips anyway.
Here's what I don't get, slower clubs? I was out last week at a dead club and the stripper working me "bought herself off the stage rotation," but was complaining that she needed to make $500 that night. She spent the majority of the evening sitting playing on her phone, so why didn't she just go on stage and then her nightly goal may have gone down to $400. Also, maybe her stage presence may have enticed a PL to get a lap dance from her to where they would notice her versus her going unnoticed, sitting in a booth in the corner tapping on her phone?
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In my experience those dancers that sit in a corner playing with there phones rather than getting on stage or soliciting lap dances are for the most part just waiting for their big spending regulars to come in. Foolish economics but nobody every accused a stripper of being too smart.
At night, with one main stage and 40 or more girls, a dancer likely only goes on twice. Stage tips can easily break 20 or 25 bucks when it's busy. And girls in VIP get bumped back in the rotation.
To me it doesn't make sense to skip stage. But some strippers use stripper logic.
I'll pay a skip fee (usually around $20) if the girl I'm sitting with wants to keep drinking or eating dinner with me. Or if we are about to go to VIP so she doesn't get called out of the booth mid BBBJ. ;)
This is usually day shift when there aren't a lot of dancers on staff and it's slow.
Off the top of my head I've seen two instances where in general certain dancers will not go on stage:
1) a hot dancer than can consistently and fairly easily make very good $$$ while on the floor.
2) older dancers that may not feel comfortable or confident being “center stage” and prefer, and may be better at, the one-on-one hustle
One strange occurrence, a fav had deathly fear of heights. Even the couple of feet on the stage freaked her out, so she would not get on stage. I thought is was SS, but one day walked in the club and she came running over to see me. She was a tiny thing, so grabbed her in hug and lifted her up and swung her around. She went super nova and I remembered her fear of heights. I calmed her down. Alas all was good after several lappers!
Every club is different in the way of the future of stage tipping. I travel a lot and in some places I make $200+ on stage but at my home club I feel awesome if I get $10. Going on stage is hard on your body, you get bruises and floor burns from choosing the allure of being/looking sexy over comfortable moves. And, when you're doing floor work on a hard surface, and you have to do that for several minutes, several times a night--it KILLS your knees.
You guys have talked about how girls only have to go on stage only once or twice a night but many clubs have more than one stage...most of the places I work have three or four. You may do great or you may do shitty on stage. Most times it's not all you guys think it's cracked up to be, and you're then all sweaty for the next guy who asks you to dance.
If I am not busy and it is slow. I always put a dollar or more every few rounds on the stage. Usually, can talk to the woman for a second and get a feel for her personality. And if you like her enough you can ask her to your table. That is just the way I have always thought of it. She is working, could have stayed home.
Now, if you tip her a few times and she doesn't come around and say thank you, then you didn't waste money on a lap dance.