When clubs reopen
SuperDude
Detroit, Michigan
We hope that this pandemic passes quickly, but we are advised that we are in for a long time of disruption, working from home and closed entertainment venues. When SCs reopen, my guess is that only the strong will survive and they will have to review their business model. Clubs that were marginal before the pandemic will probably not be able to reopen. They will lack the cash reserves to run the operation after weeks or months of no activity. Getting regulars to come back to a marginal club will not be easy. The more stable clubs will face stiff competition.
The return to the clubs will be very slow after the pandemic. Unpaid bills, late mortgage, rent, car and insurance payments will take priority over mongering. (Once the courts reopen, look out for a rush of collection and foreclosure cases.) Club managers will have to reconsider charging for booths, VIP entry, drink minimums and all of the other nickle and dime stuff. They may drop those charges to lure customers, only to face resistance when they reinstate them.
Dancers will have to rethink pricing. Customers, facing their own "catch up" financial responsibilities, are not interested in financing dancers' overdue rent, car and boyfriend payments. If they want us to come back, price gouging will not attract us. The industry will have to reinvent itself and become more customer friendly with a reasonable price structure. Those club managers who think we will return to and accept business as usual will see their clubs close.
The return to the clubs will be very slow after the pandemic. Unpaid bills, late mortgage, rent, car and insurance payments will take priority over mongering. (Once the courts reopen, look out for a rush of collection and foreclosure cases.) Club managers will have to reconsider charging for booths, VIP entry, drink minimums and all of the other nickle and dime stuff. They may drop those charges to lure customers, only to face resistance when they reinstate them.
Dancers will have to rethink pricing. Customers, facing their own "catch up" financial responsibilities, are not interested in financing dancers' overdue rent, car and boyfriend payments. If they want us to come back, price gouging will not attract us. The industry will have to reinvent itself and become more customer friendly with a reasonable price structure. Those club managers who think we will return to and accept business as usual will see their clubs close.
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Dancers will likely be needy for $$$ and PLs will be horny and backed-up - and people will want to go out and celebrate after being confined.
She also complained that the PL was not tipping for the dances and only tipping when she was on stage 🙄
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Strip clubs will probably come back slowly. The coronavirus will not suddenly end completely. It will linger on until we have an effective vaccine and most people are vaccinated. The anti-vaxxers will keep the disease going longer than it would otherwise. A lot of PLs will be in no hurry to return the clubs.
However, the key question is when. If the reopening is two to three weeks away, it should be a buyers market. If it’s much longer, I’m not sure what the clubs might be like.
The one wildcard is whether clubs will be able to make their rent/mortgage payments, but that's a universal problem and I suspect that most commercial tenants will ultimately get relief. After all, with no retail businesses earning any cash and the commercial rental market in the toilet, who could you replace the strip clubs with anyway? Everyone's in the same boat until this is over.
So it may actually be fairly orderly
You'd think girls would be clamoring for money to pay debts, etc. But, unfortunately, there may be a mentality that once your drowning in debt, why bother trying? Of course, paid in cash, no garnishment, becomes attractive at that point!
Clubs still have to pay leases. But really, from their landlords perspective, who else is going to move in if you boot the club for not paying it's lease while it's closed? For some this isn't going to matter, for some it will.
Property or other taxes, too many municipalities would just at the opportunity to shutter places for non payment, if they can. Payment deferrals to keep the economy up and other businesses viable are most probably being rolled out too fast for them to add "adult industry" exceptions so they oughta be able to take advantage.
And then there is a certain mindset of some in the industry. They need to make a certain amount that night, it's a goal. Fewer customers doesn't mean reset "your" expectations and drop prices to get them coming back, etc., no, exact opposite, fewer customers mean you have to charge them MORE to make that goal... Laws of supply and demand be damned, they aren't there for free, I'm sure we've all had some experience with that attitude.
Anything can happen, each club will be different, each city different.
That should work to the benefit of people like me who are able to work from home with no real financial hit. The added savings during this period (not buying gas, no eating out a nice restaraunts, no tickets to ball games or concerts, etc) plus the added benefit of these stimulus checks means I will have more money than usual to hit the clubs.
I think the avg PL that typically clubs hard does so b/c he has the means - one would think many of these types would be in decent-enough financial-shape to pick-up-the-hobby pretty-quickly once clubs are able to reopen - of course, the longer this goes on the more people will be impacted and the more it will take to get SCing back-on-line.
It's not the same because they were never forced to completely close. There is nothing comparative in modern times to what is happening now.
Glad to see someone is keeping perspective in the face of a pandemic
Also is it just me or do women, in general, seem to be taking this much harder than men? at least psychologically. Dancers are and will remain freaked for sometime, especially the ones (majority?) without health insurance.
There will not be a swift return to normalcy in regions where corona is prevalent in MOST industrirs but id say especially in SCs which are entirely dependent intimate contact with strangers and disposable income. .
This virus is going to be floating around the globe for probably a year or two, everyone needs to get that fucking idea in their head. Its a real deal pandemic, shits gonna stick around and likely keep popping up until we come up with a vaccine and the longer these shutdowns last and more encompassing they become, the more likely well be looking at an economic depression and not a “swift return to normalcy”.
WHEN we bounce back it will be epic but it will probably be further down the road than we all want and with many changes in place.
Assmanadamus prediction #1 - amazon will need anti-monopoly restrictions placed on it (demanded by ordinary americans) as they simply devour most retail during this time. brick and mortars were closed by the govt who are then saying “we will loan you money” to small businesses... so theyre forced to close and then asked to take on debt to reopen? Amazon will be unstoppable 😔
If this lasts two months we'll start to see anger among the general public. So I predict two or tops 3 months until the authorities have to start reopening society.
Of course the weaker strip clubs won't survive that long and won't be back, but the stronger ones should return fine maybe with some no contact protocols that many clubs will simply not enforce just as they look the other way now on many things done in the VIP.
Again this is just my rational speculation.
Maybe take a time out? Gotta pace yourself. If you're going colorblind n' all, maybe a nap will help.
One way of surviving.
A separation will happen where is no itc action that will need to be otc. Safety of customers from disease and being taken by ROB will have high priority. Two way contact will remain.