Tipping the door girl?
PaulDrake
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Do you guys tip the door girl?
My thoughts are not to do it at a super high volume club. But at a low volume club where you are a regular at it is probably worth it. Tipping the door girl once a week for a year is only $50. Potential advantages to tipping the door girl:
-Get warned about no girls working at that time
-I have gotten free entry once and free passes another time when there weren't many girls working or the girl I liked wasn't there
-Bypass the ID scan
-Info on whether a girl is still working there or where she might have gone
Do you guys tip the door girl?
My thoughts are not to do it at a super high volume club. But at a low volume club where you are a regular at it is probably worth it. Tipping the door girl once a week for a year is only $50. Potential advantages to tipping the door girl:
-Get warned about no girls working at that time
-I have gotten free entry once and free passes another time when there weren't many girls working or the girl I liked wasn't there
-Bypass the ID scan
-Info on whether a girl is still working there or where she might have gone
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On the other hand, I guess my general rule of "there is never a downside to being friendly with the staff, and almost always an upside", goes with this too, as your examples above show. Most aren't needed for me (e.g., I am friendly with the bouncers and manager, I have not paid an entry fee into my favorite club in years), but I could see what you mention being useful if it were, especially for a couple of dollars per entrance
The strip club is a tipping business; often to the point of it being a shakedown - it is what it is - the nature of the beast and doesn't seem worth it to fight the system per se.
These days I kinda see-it as most of the staff probably does not get paid a very high salary - so I kinda see my tipping as doint something for the better good - I don't tip big but do tip adequately and then hope others also tip adequately and thus help out those folks make a decent living - but I gotta admit I really don't know how much the staff at SCs get paid such as the doorgirl but I would assume it's around minimum-wage and she depends on tips to make sometjing decent.
What I don't like is when the plant a girl there on dayshift and there is no cover - so wtf is she doing other than just sitting there collecting tips - at least when there is cover-charge there's a reason for her to be there.
It's tipping someone for taking your money to allow you into a place so that you can spend more money.
However, since I contribute when the dollar parade comes around - I don’t see a problem with tipping the door girl a single or two.
If I have something I want kept safe up front, like a bottle of wine for dinner later to avoid going back to my car, then for sure
Iusually tip them, the door guy if he seats me, the bartender, the VIP guy, the bathroom troll, the valet. Fuck no wonder my club nights are so expensive!
I literally just watch coats and fuck around on my phone all night in coat check. Coat check is literally $1 + optional tip.
What I'm trying to say though, is if you don't tip the door/coat check person, the club is more than likely going to pay that person anyway.
The door girls at Legends have more complex duties. They check in dancers, their IDs, handle coat check, and also handle cover charges. I just watch coats and think about how gross some of them smell.