This place waters down drinks

They can be watering tye bottles down.

^ First place tasted like actual normal 80 proof vodka. Second tasted half strength.

Could depend on the bottle. I've seen them poor water into bottles at some vegas clubs.

I'm talking at Club Desire (where they poured full strength) vs Club Fantasies (where I can tell they cut it).

They won't have a chance to prove otherwise. I'm done.

More people should say something. Let them get a reputation for it

I’m not doubting you but what the fuck would they water ketel one down for? It’s $25 a bottle. They probably pay less than $20. Why bother watering it down and risking the bad reputation? That would be stupid. Not saying they wouldn’t do it.

@Jimmy, lots of idiots only think short term.

^ Jimmy, it used to happen in some of the NYC boroughs all the time, including the old Cityscapes in Queens and other NYC clubs owned by the same prick. Sadly some of these club owners are so damned greedy or desperate that a 400-500% markup on a bottle of liquor is not enough for them. They want to squeeze another 5-6 drinks out of the same damned bottle.

Now I don't know about Club Fantasies, but if it's true then I fully support Tetradon sharing it. My only hesitation is that Desires is so shilled on here that I'm naturally suspicious when a competing club gets trashed for an alleged wrong.

@rick, there's nothing to be suspicious about.

Desire isn't perfect, I had a lackluster visit there today. Gender ratios and selection of girls was poor, that's why I got one drink there then bugged out to Fantasies.

But on the whole it's the best club in New England, you can ask anyone in the area. It's got something for everyone, no serious weaknesses even if it's lost a few ticks from pre COVID days (especially on extras). No idea how it compares to Texas or Florida but I've never clubbed in either state.

Ouch, $17!! No thank you, that’s a price of a good lap dance with mileage.

^ Desire is pricey at $15 but gives a double shot. If they like you, a triple isn't out of the question.

I didn't realize until I got the bill for the drink plus food and it was $29 and I'm like WTF, the food was only $12, you mean that drink was $17, holy fuck!!!

Wow, that's funny. I looked back on my review of Fantasies from just 3 1/2 years ago and they were charging me $9 for a Jack on the rocks with what I felt at the time was an OK pour. I also don't remember any problem with the booze itself. How times have changed. The impacts from the COVID closures and now the economic challenges must be making them desperate.

^ And I said my K1 was $11 and didn't notice it cut.

They already lost the $400 in my wallet I was ready to drop that day. Hope they lost the smart TUSCL money that won't go there now.

I go to CF, and the other Providence clubs, every once in a while to re-affirm my belief that Desire is still the best. I'm not drinking anything straight up so I can't comment on the watering down. I can say that most times I stop in there are 6 or 8 dancers, 10 or 12 customers and often an empty stage. Francis may be getting desperate,

Before I was old enough to drive, I worked in the warehouse of a wholesale produce company. One of my jobs was to "pop" the bananas. That was our code word which meant I'd open every box and take out 1 or 2 bunches. Those would be used either to fill small orders for less than a case, or sold in a little retail store that was set up in a corner of the building. Either way, the price for individual bunches was much higher than the wholesale price, and it was 100% profit because it was all stolen out of the full boxes.

The technique was quite ingenious. See, they were packed very neatly, and if you took them off the top it would be obvious that some bananas were missing. Even if you shuffled them around a little, it still looked suspicious. So I would flip the box upside down, wiggle the box bottom out of the cover, and take them from the bottom. Then carefully insert the bottom back into the top and flip it over again. It looked completely full, and once the restaurant started grabbing bunches out of a box, they'd never be the wiser. I don't remember a single customer ever complaining.

We had similar procedures for other items. Tomatoes, peaches, green beans, cabbage... pretty much anything where you could skim a little, we did. You might say that was some petty bullshit, but consider this: If we got in two pallets of bananas, that's 96 boxes. I take two from each box, that's 192 bunches. I could "pop" two pallets in under an hour, and I made $8 bucks an hour back then. So you do the math.

It was virtually impossible to get caught because from the guy who signs for the order, to the dishwasher who puts it away in the fridge, to the dozen busy kitchen workers who are all grabbing stuff when they need it, nobody is thinking about whether two oranges are missing from the box. And even if they did, hey it could have been that fruit picker in California who ate one.

But the booze is a different story. A short pour or watered down drink is sold directly to the guy who's gonna sample it within seconds, after having paid a ridiculously inflated price for it. And if they're ordering hard liquor either straight up or on the rocks, you can bet they're someone who expects that first sip to have some kick to it.

A strip club manager has to be an idiot to water down drinks, especially when they're collecting a cover charge, plus a portion of every lap dance fee, plus champagne selling for like $800 a bottle, plus dealing drugs to dancers and some regular customers, all on top of the 400 or 500% mark-up already on bar drinks. Nah, it's more likely a bartender trying to put a few extra dollars in her pocket.

^ it would be quite difficult for a bartender acting alone to profit from diluted liquor, more likely if that’s an issue it’s being orchestrated by management, it might be possible that owners were unaware but doubtful that any single person is able to profit by themselves.

^ Could be right. Either way, it's pretty dumb for management to risk the club's reputation, or a bartender to risk her job, over a few bucks.

Club Fantasies hasn't been known for smart management decisions for a long time now. This feels appropriate.

No bartender is making a decision like that for laundry list of reasons. I also doubt that many salaried shift or even general managers would have the balls to do something like that unilaterally. In any club where the liquor is being tampered with, the most likely scenario is that ownership made the decision to do it or at least approved it.

Yeah my dirty martini is $17-$18 when it used to be $15. It doesn’t taste strong at all.