Cash Burn Rate
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What would you estimate to be your highest “cash burn rate” (dollars spent per hour) at a SC. To make this apples to apples, count cover, drinks, food for the dancers ( but not yours), house fees for dancers, and tips for dancers and staff. Also, round up to the nearest hour. So, if you blew into a club, did a $250 VIP, and blew out again in 20 minutes (done that a few times) your hourly burn rate is $250, not $750.
What was your lowest burn rate? To qualify, you have to have spent at least an hour in the club. If you walked in, ordered an $8 drink, decided that you didn’t like what you saw so you got out of Dodge in 5 minutes (done that quite a few times as well). If you spent a full hour in the club nursing that $8 drink and never spent another dime, seems like there might be a story to tell, even if it’s just patiently waiting on a dancer who never shows up ( I heard that happened to a guy one time).
My worst cash burns probably involve a couple occasions where I did more than one VIP in an hour. This is always a bad sign for me, because it means I’m trying too hard to make something happen rather than just going with the flow.
What was your lowest burn rate? To qualify, you have to have spent at least an hour in the club. If you walked in, ordered an $8 drink, decided that you didn’t like what you saw so you got out of Dodge in 5 minutes (done that quite a few times as well). If you spent a full hour in the club nursing that $8 drink and never spent another dime, seems like there might be a story to tell, even if it’s just patiently waiting on a dancer who never shows up ( I heard that happened to a guy one time).
My worst cash burns probably involve a couple occasions where I did more than one VIP in an hour. This is always a bad sign for me, because it means I’m trying too hard to make something happen rather than just going with the flow.
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I've had multi VIP hours, busting twice, for maybe $600. Or hours of near continuous dances, but usually at cheaper places that ran a lot less.
Best: $20/hour
Lowest: $10/hour when drinking two beers at the bar, waiting for the dancers to get out of the dressing room.
Almost always somewhere in between.
My lowest was probably at Scarlett's Cabernet in East St. Louis somewhat recently, where I paid a $20 plus around $8 for a beer I nursed for two hours while no decent dancers showed up. So a $14 / hour burn rate.
My lowest where I actually got "dances" was in TJ at HK. On my last day of my first trip there, I found myself low and cash and time. I spent about a two hours at the club including a HH arriba with a super hot raver chica. It cost me total of $142 for beer, fichas, propinas and the arriba, for a burn rate of $71 / hour.
I can't tell you for sure what my slowest burn rate was, but I suspect it probably happened at King of Diamonds south of St. Paul, MN waiting for some preferred dancer to come dance for me.
The only places I really think of a "burn rate" are places with heavy tip walks and expensive drinks. There's places in Miami where you'll easily burn through $75/hr on that stuff.