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When a club has drink prices that are dollars and cents, as opposed to just doll

Feb 24, 2018, 9:50 AM

Whether or not we believe that a club has fair pricing on drinks, we are usually given the convenience of having to pay a full dollar amount. This makes it easier on everybody, customers, bartenders and waitresses. When paying for a drink, I usually pay with a $20 and get back change in singles. This is something that most clubs get right.

Every now and then, there will be a club where the management does not think logically when pricing drinks. A few years ago, I was at a juice bar in Northern Michigan that charged $3.25 for a can of Coca-Cola. Being that I paid for my drink in cash, I got back change that included 3 quarters. What use do quarters have in a strip club, other than to just stay in your pocket? Wouldn't it make more sense to charge $3.00, so if a customer pays $5, they get back $2 which could be used to tip 2 dancers on stage?

As it is, it is a very rare situation where a club won't have drink prices at a full dollar amount. But, when you do find yourself in a club that prices drinks in dollars and cents, do you find it annoying to be given back cash and coins when you pay for a drink?

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79terrier7 years ago

Maybe leave the change for a tip?

orionsmith7 years ago

I've been in several places where drinks were not rounded off. Many leave the change as a tip plus maybe a bill or two. It allows waitresses to get extra tips if everyone is leaving an extra 75 cents per drink with her on top of a bill or two or three.

Supremeruler7 years ago

^exactly.

tumblingdice7 years ago

I've owned many a restaurant and still have interest in two.With the public its all about perceived value.Don't trip them up with pennies,round it off.

flagooner7 years ago

Tips? What are they?

Subraman7 years ago

Ya, I always figured that when it comes to cheap drinks -- and no judgement, I often stick with cheap well shots -- the kind of cheap fucks that order them, sometimes don't tip. Charging 3.25 at least raises the probability that even a cheap fuck will tip seventy-five cents.

DandyDan7 years ago

Years ago, I remember one of the Omaha bikini bars charged $2.40 for a beer. If you wonder why strip clubs have a need for quarters, than what is their need for dimes? I always left it for a tip.

Uprightcitizen7 years ago

Just go to Alberta and your stripper will take your change...

"The funny thing about being a stripper in Alberta is that when a coin hits your body you can tell, 'Oh, that's a quarter,'" Arabella Allure, an Australian stripper now working in Canada, told VICE. "Once you've had several thousand dollars of change thrown at you, believe me, when a coin hits you that isn't the right weight, you fuckin' know about it."

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Huntsman7 years ago

I’m one of those that tips a dollar plus the three fucking quarters because I have no use for them in the club. I suppose I could use the quarters to make it hail on the strippers but the drink pricing is not their fault. In fact, it’s not the bartender’s choice either so I tip the $1.75 for my plastic cup of coke in juice bars or my overpriced beer in clubs that serve alcohol.

twentyfive7 years ago

I think it’s a scheme to get a few extra untaxed dollars the clubs know that most don’t pay attention to the change if you figure it out two beers per hour at $3.25 = $1.50 per hour per patron 10 patrons in an hour = $15.00 ~ 15 hrs open $$225.00 most have many more than 10 patrons per hour the bartenders and waitresses make out fairly well plus they have to pay house fees just like the dancers.

Papi_Chulo7 years ago

I assume it's a way to get more tips for the waitresses/bartenders - I don't like-it either b/c it comes across as kinda scam-ish - but I don't sweat it too-much since I'm not a drinker and usually just nurse one overpriced drink for the whole visit

shadowcat7 years ago

Follies does that too. I had a run in with a waitress a couple of weeks ago. Go my usual glass of coke for $4.25 which is high even for strip clubs and I gave her $5.25. She said "We" don't accept quarters. I said well then your tip is 75 cents. She cursed me and walked off. Then turned around and came back for the quarter. Bitch won't be taking my order again. I have never seen any waitress there offer to give you the correct change in quarters. They just assume that is theirs.

orangepicture7 years ago

I wrote a review a week or two ago about the 19th Hole Lounge in PA that charges $X.50 for drinks and they don't give you the 50 cents back. It is an automatic tip to the bar tender.

loper7 years ago

quarters in the restroom for a condom?

Lone_Wolf7 years ago

Yea, kinda of scamish, at my fave club, the waitress will always hand the bills back but not include the loose change. Instead, they leave on their tray and act like that is the same as handing it to the PL. I'm guilty of falling for this and usually tip at least a buck on top of the change not taken.

Makes me wonder how much a hard working waitress can make in a busy club if they are pocketing all that unclaimed change as well as getting tipped on top of it. Who needs college. lol.

Jascoi7 years ago

i guess i have a sheltered life. only club i have received coins... quarters... is adelitas in tj. sometimes I consider it a .75 cent tip to the mesero... or sometimes I pocket the three quarters and give him a buck. the change I'll use anyway within an hour or two.

DR997 years ago

Tycoons not BT's on 8 mile did that sold drinks not rounded to a nice even number no 2.50 3.00 even pricing on drinks for some reason