I wonder how common it is ...
Papi_Chulo
Miami, FL (or the nearest big-booty club)
For waitresses to pad the bill - either round-up (tell custy it's $10 for a $9.25 drink) or just pad by a buck or two.
I'm not much of a drinker nor a hard regular at any one club to extactly know the drink prices.
Have any of you noticed a waitress over-charging you for a drink you knew the exact price off?
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Papi you could be right but in most higher end strip clubs I'm usually handed a paper receipt along with my drink/or/change from my drink.
Sunnyvale Brass Rail uses register receipts strictly. But other places, and especially those drink hustle places, like in San Gabriel Valley, and when it is not alcohol, and hence no license required, and when it might be possible to get frisky with waitresses?
SJG
A crooked/unprofessional waitress tried to charge me $10
With tip....she would have potentially made 3,4 extra dollars!
SJG
But others have posted that there seemed to be places with self appointed free lancing shot girls.
So in that sort of environment, besides likely the shot girl being available for whatever you might want, the cost is just whatever she says it is. And if there really are clubs like that, they probably have so many dancers that they are completely unregulated. No real whip for the management to crack.
Are there really such places?
SJG
But other places, all that is really guaranteed is that dancers and waitresses rake in money, and that they can pretty much do whatever they want to get it.
House gets money from drink hustle, dancer access fees, maybe even waitress access fees, and from VIP room fees and cover charge.
Other than that, it is just between you and the hot females. There could be miscommunications and waitresses who push it real hard. Lots of guys won't be paying attention to the money.
SJG
Sunnyvale Brass Rail uses receipts. Viet Coffee usually does not.
For example, the non-alcohol high mileage San Gabriel Valley Clubs? Receipts? Extremely friendly waitresses, feeling that applying such charm they are entitled to money like dancers get?
SJG
Viet Coffee almost NEVER uses receipts. They sometimes have problems with regulators. But mostly they get by. Everyone knows that their books are cooked and that it is all under the table.
Now for a no alcohol extreme mileage with dancers and maybe waitresses too strip club? I'm asking. People who patronize the San Gabriel Valley Clubs, do they use receipts? If the juice drinks don't exist, then the money doesn't either.
Redwood City Hanky Panky does serve alcohol, but the girls are highly OTC oriented, and so this outlaw character comes across. No Receipts.
Twentyfive needs to learn to listen more and talk less.
SJG
Sometimes you can feel if you have entered an outlaw place. San Jose does not make much effort to enforce all laws all the time. We saw Jackslash finding the articles about the underground clubs, and some videos of stuff that never could be gotten away with in the above boards Sunnyvale clubs. I think it highly unlikely that in these underground places that the books are not cooked.
Most of the time omitting receipts, it could be for simplicity, but mostly it is because the books are completely cooked and no labor laws or tax laws are followed. So in a place where waitresses are as friendly as dancers? People from San Gabriel Valley, do they use receipts, is it all on the books?
SJG
More often I hear $6.25 for a drink and never see the quarters returned resulting in $.75 higher tip. Or only a $.75 tip if she's snarky about it. My last visit to a club the waitress actually asked if I wanted "my quarters"? I was shocked and said Yes I do. Then I stated quarters were likely difficult for her to deal with anyway. She responded that she actually liked having quarters since she used them for doing laundry. So I told her to keep them.
As for receipts, I most often get one for paying cover charge rarely for drinks. But they are not common in my SC world.
Some waitresses also like serving in small glasses instead of large ones. Some offer refills and some don't on soft drinks.
I've never been given a receipt at Tootsies, Rhino, Rachel's, or the Body club. At Cheetah Pompano & Hallandale I usually get one, but never at West Palm's. But, out of all those places, the only place that happens is Spearmint Rhino. And that shit used to happen all the time there, it's one of the reasons I stopped going there. The waitress would always add 1-3 per drink, and each waitress would add her own amount, which is how I realized it. Tootsies employees, not the strippers, have always been the most honest ones I've ever seen. Those waitresses will offer change every time, I've had them tell me a drink was one price then come back and tell me they were wrong & refund the difference. They'll almost always come up shortly before happy hour ends and offer a last call.
While I get annoyed with rounding up, that's a bit more nuanced. If a beer is 4.25, and she keeps the .75 its a much less egregious foul than if she just tells me its 5. I'll complain to a manager if a waitress is adding whole dollars to drinks, and if it isn't fixed I'll stop going. If a waitress is rounding up, I'll just consider that her tip and/or avoid her in particular. Going back to the 4.25 example, I'd probably tip 1.75 for that, meaning I'd waive off the .75 and hand her a buck. If she didn't offer my full change, I'd probably skip the extra buck but not bitch about the .75.
To directly answer the question, I find that the rounding up/not giving full change is pretty common, meaning maybe half the time. The others happen, but I'd guess a much lower percentage of the time. It's hard to peg, because strip clubs often have differing prices throughout each time of day or day of week, and often have "parties" with another set of prices. So, its hard to always know what the actual price is and thus hard to know when its happening to me.
SJG