Has anyone seriously considered owning and operating a strip club?
jeff11
Arkansas
Like everyone here, I spend a fair amount of time and hard earned dollars at strip clubs particularly when I travel. And like most of you, when I review the bank account the next morning I regret that extra time in VIP and how much I had to drink. In those moments of self reflection/admonishment, I often wonder if it would be profitable, fun even, to own a strip club. Yes there would be stripper drama to contend with and the ups and downs of owning a business. Could it also be rewarding? What say you ladies and gents?
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This past year showed that you would need to save or have a backup plan as your business could stop producing income for a long period of time.
I am not friends but friendly with an owner of a club. I was talking to him about paying off my house and he said he was on track to pay his off until the pandemic hit and he had a substantial drop in income.
I'd (passively) invest a good chunk of change is something that doesn't exist: a table/couch dance club. High cover, not necessarily a bar, no stage dancing, no house fee, no cut for the club from each dance, you can see on the website the names of the dancers who actually showed up that night before you go.
Not for nothing, but do you have a nickname for your nickname? That's a load to type out lol.
In this instance, the best customers would likely be the absolute worst owners.
For me... that's a solid 'no'.
I want Ivanka Trump to change my political opinions by beating me about the head with her boobs in the VIP of nicespice's club.
How do you make $2 million dollars in the strip club business?
Start with $20 million dollars...
Seriously, I think there are way too many problems now to even think about it. Imaging trying to get a business license today for a strip club? Imagine trying to hire strippers from the 18-38 age group of "woke" and "me too" and OnlyFans population? Imaging trying to advertise your new strip club on billboards, TV, YouTube, IG, Snap, Facebook? Imagine convincing local men who just spent 18 months not working and not going to clubs to fork over $25 to get in, $20-$30 for a dance, $200-$500 for a VIP and do it 3 to 5 times a month? That could mean spending over $800-$2,500 a month in "disposable" cash they probably don't have. Imagine finding a way to get local LE to NOT plant UC's in your club, or to not just raid your place looking for drugs, prostitution, and underage staff? How much will that cost you? Imaging the dirty tactics your competition - some of which are "connected" - will do to sink your business?
So sure, it's a fantasy we all may have had along the way - literally auditioning dozens of naked women for a job in your club, and willing to do a LOT to make sure you hire them. But it's a business. And most start up businesses fail in their 1st 2 years.
We are all transplants from out-of-state, who had favorite sports bars in our home cities. We know what we liked about those bars that made them our favorites and why they were successful; and were going to incorporate them into our design for new bars or redesign of existing bars. The Gentlemens Club was a stretch goal for 5-7 years after we had the liquor license, food, beverage, and entertainment contracts down pat; perhaps a 10-year time horizon.
Then COVID hit. Bars and restaurants were shut down, and some forced to pay employees who found an excuse to stay home. Then the minimum wage in Florida was raised to $15/hour. Now there are food shortages, beverage shortages, worker shortages, and Biden's inflation. It just doesn't make sense at this point, I personally do not want more headaches.
But in hindsight I'm glad I didn't given what has been happening in CT the last 10 years. Affluent people have been leaving in droves and even the clubs in CT's larger "cities" were suffering even before COVID. Places like Beamers and Scruples, once CT's best clubs, are mere shadows of their former selves. All thanks to "progressive" politicos who did everything they could to encourage large employers and affluent residents to leave the state.
Makes one wonder how many other small-business-owners will be dissuaded from opening businesses due to these issues (and makes one wonder if the current administration actually wants it this way).
I think if they allowed marijuama lounges a strip club that sells weed would be a gold mine.