August 2, 2015 • Made a visit to platinum on Friday evening. The first thing I noticed as many of the dancers were pissed because the club cancelled all existing contracts with the dancers.
The dancers were each offered an opportunity to become an employee at a very low pay rate and all their dance money received (manditory, $30 per song) will go directly to the club or they be could become an independent contractor and all the house fees where heavily increased. Also, if a dancer chooses the employee option, they cannot come and go as they please, they must work mandatory shifts.
This is not good news for the dancers and will in turn even worse in the experience for the customer. The mood of the dancers was certainly impacted but will hopefully get better over time.
There were some lookers at the club on this night, but there has been a recent vibe of snootiness among the dancers during my recent visits. I did get some dances from a little spinner who is heavily pierced and tattooed named pixie, but it was less than thrilling, especially with a bouncer in the couch room and the room being heavily lit up.
One dancer who i cant remember her name talked me into getting a tour of the champagne room. There were a couple customers getting their private session but there were also two bouncers continuously patrolling inside the champagne room. This is an absolute waste of money.
The dancers were mostly white, however the clientele was mostly black on this evening. I'm a little concerned about this, especially because I saw one of the customers showing off his Glock 9mm to another dude in the men's room. After seeing this with my own eyes, I'd feel much better if it club installed a metal detector or even had it all customers down before entry. This is certainly a product of many of the black clubs being closed down in the area because of shootings. Columbia needs more options for clubs. Odious.
Oops. Didn't mean to imply that I made a visit. PP clubs are on my back burner indefinitely.