A question put to a friend:
Since you seem to have some connection to the strip club industry, I ask you this, how do we beat Deja Vu?
Now I give them credit for unbranding some of their clubs. That makes their impact less severe.
But it is still a problem, most of all in metros where due to public sentiments, LE has to allow quite a bit. DV undermines what would otherwise be awesome clubs.
Not concerned about places with lots of strip clubs, where they run a few. That could even be constructive. Concerned about places like San Francisco where they have obtained a near monopoly, and about places where they have taken over on the heels of LE, like Greenville South Carolina.
I say that the way to beat them is just to open more clubs. But in San Francisco, rents are very high. And the DV System clips money off of the marks who are born every minute, while staying below the threshold where LE would act.
DV says that in San Francisco they have kept clubs open which would have otherwise closed because of escalating rents.
So how do we beat them?
SJG
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe youtube.com


There is no beating them. The way to beat them is to boycott them. They seem to have a near monopoly on seattle as well. I suspect the outrageous prices have as much to do with deja vu as the high cost of living.