What's up with scanning IDs in PA?
occurious
California
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 9:06 PM
Was in PA over the weekend on a business trip and went to a club I had gone to before. The guy at the front scanned my DL which surprised me but didn't really concern me. I haven't been there in probably 5 years and that wasn't done then. I was reading some recent reviews for other PA clubs and it seems like this has become a common thing. Does anyone know what the deal is there?
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Otherwise, they might secretly have designated it as a membership club, and they might be making you a member. There could be huge advantages to this legally.
SJG
However, I’ve been to a few supermarkets and bought beer, and all scanned my DL. It wasn’t an issue at the supermarket, but I understand how it might be at a strip club.
It was such a hassle and slowed down the check out so much eventually stores said “screw it,” we’ll take our chances with getting fined during a fake ID sting versus slowing down the check out line.
Way around this as a college student? Find someone that looks like you, is 21 and talk him/her into giving you a duplicate of their real ID.
The ID scanners are often part of bar management/point of sale packages. They scan ID's and keep a database of customers habits. If you pay your bar tab with a card, they'll correlate it. They have a database of "bad" customers, and will refuse service to people flagged as such. They'll also add you to the db if you do something they don't like. Something like disputing a credit card charge could get you on their list. Some of the companies share databases for that stuff.
Mostly what it does for bar owners is show them demographical info, They have your age/sex/address and do dashboards that show average ages & proximity during certain windows. In theory, you can cater services and market better with that sort of information. It also shows stuff like trends, last year customers used to come 3x a month this year its 2.4, etc. Or last year it was 95% male, this year its 80%.
There are two clubs in Palm Beach doing this now, I only go to them when I'm with friends who insist on going. I used to give them carry permit as an ID, because it's a state issued card with my birthday on it but it doesn't have a barcode. Last time I gave them that one, they rejected it and I left. I'm guessing they'll be a third if I ever stop by the latest place to re-open, but I'm not really in a hurry because I'm assuming they'll be doing that shit.
I only know about Monroe’s which is the second one and what club do you expect to reopen?
The one I expect to reopen is "ORA Ultra Cabaret" formerly Epic/The Manor/Double Dee's. I posted a comment in the forum for that club the other day. They've got xmas lights outside on all the trees, new signs out front, and I saw a fair amount of cars in the lot the last weekend. They've got fake reviews on google up & a Facebook page saying the Grand Opening is this week. I'm sure its the same owners & management as before, so I'm expecting the same ol shit. This time it looks like the entire building will be the strip club though. I'm out that way during the day all the time, but rarely in the evenings. So if they open during the day I might stop in, but if its just night time it may be a while before I stop in. Not gonna make a special trip, especially knowing they'll probably scan ID's and I'll end up going down to Pompano instead.
Note that some clubs in this area ID scan at night but not for dayshift, so it'd be best to have 3 options "No ID scanning" "Yes nightshift only" "Yes". I doubt there are any clubs that only scan IDs during the day and not night, so no option needed. But I think it's important information that you can go to a particular club during dayshift and not get scanned
Seems to me Spearmint Rhino is slowly going out of business, what a shame that was a very strong club not so long ago, seems management has no idea how to run a club any more
If a bank doesn't need to scan your ID, why the fuck would a strip club? No way man. That's a deal breaker for me. I can't remember the last time I was asked for ID at a club, but if I ever am I would verify there's no scanner before even taking my wallet out.
I requested this very thing a few years ago because scans are a deal breaker to me and knowing this would save me the trip. Founder added it to the club overview section back then, but this was several versions ago when there were a list of checkboxes to allow for easy editing of club information. Now that we just have one big box it says "Suggested Update", it is much harder to make timely corrections.