What's the deal with "Free lunch" needing TWO drinks?

It's not a buffet.

2 drink minimums at some strip clubs have been around longer than I have. It isn't just those with a lunch, many strip clubs require a 2 drink minimum to ensure that the people who come in spend at least a certain amount of money instead of just watching a free stage show.

I usually don't drink when I'm clubbing, but I've never had a club enforce the 2 drink minimum as long as I am spending money in the club. The only time I've had a club bring it up was when I had arranged to meet a particular dancer at the club at a certain time. Of course she was late so I was sitting around waiting and I hadn't bought any dances or anything while I was waiting. I had a waitress come over and remind me of the two drink minimum, I told her I didn't feel like a drink and gave her $20 and told her she could either use that to pay for my two drinks or keep it as a tip for herself. She thanked me for the tip and never mentioned the 2 drink minimum again.

Whodey to be fair, its not coming in watching a free stage show if theres an entrance fee.

Yeah I've never had it enforced EXCEPT when I want the lunch.

F at a place in the north with no/little contact, I got zero drinks and tipped every or almost every girl on stage and got zero dances and it wasn't enforced.

Also 2 drink minimums, the median age of PL's, and the state of some SC bathrooms, is a bad combination.

As a SF regular I go to all of those clubs you’ve mentioned often, and I’ve never been hassled about the two drink minimum, ever. I think it’s very selectively enforced and honestly isn’t something worth worrying over.

I'm a fan of the free lunch at Cheetah's. Not high-end, and often a casserole or some other school-lunch type of fare. But hey, it's edible and free... well, except for the $200 I always drop on LDs each time.

BT "free lunch" is not the deal that it once was. Used to be a good sized burger, that really felt like a good deal. Now its just a small kids sized thing that is not much of an incentive. Cheetahs is the real value for lunch for sure.

Because they are offsetting what they would pay to actually give people free food, and then some. It's a marketing tactic. They're making you pay for the food by spending 20+ on overpriced drinks that have a much higher profit margin than food anyway, and then telling you the food is free. There's no such thing as a free lunch in a literal sense in this case.

@25, not hassled. Just sit down order a drink and a lunch item for the first time in a year, and the bartender says 2 drink minimum. It's not biggie, especially at BT. Dances and talent are worth it to not eat there. SG though could use more customers (and more dancers).

^ agree with all of that

I think there's a decent number of people who go into those clubs for the lunch and that's it, no tips, no dances, maybe a water or soft drink would be their only purchase.

I've never seen the two drink thing enforced, but I've seen plenty of guys some in and sit next to me at the bar, get lunch and a drink, eat, then leave. At least I've seen that at BT & Cheetah, I don't go to SG much and I honestly didn't even know Scores did a free lunch. BT used to not enforce it at all, and before they handed out those little paper chits, you used to see guys sitting there with 3-4 plates of the free food. I presume they gave the bartender a little tip.

Given that experience, it wouldn't surprise me if BT started enforcing it. Especially since according to the rumor mill, two more long time managers were recently let go for skimming. That sorta thing always prompts a knee jerk reaction with all sorts of stupid policies.

Another helpful post @Dolfan, thanks.

@sfrsox, You do know why they do this. As a business, if there is an opportunity for them to make money, they want to - That is just capitalism.

Now, you and I may not like it, but if they enforce 2 drink minimum and charge 12$ for pepsi, it is their deal... If they do have enough customers to make a profit happen, more power to htem. If they do not have enough profit to make it happen, guess what will happen... Their pricing or policies will come back down... That is how capitalism works, and you and I and the whole bunch of people in this group isn't gonna make a dent into their pockets.

Sorry, but not sorry.

TANSTAAFL.

lol George

I would agree would it not be for Cheetah's

In addition to the other points already mentioned, it might also be a way to encourage interaction with dancers. It’s easy to get two drinks when ordering for two.

^Ah, so you did. My bad Icey.

That makes more sense, of course.

Sorry icey your post was overlooked boy

It's not a soup kitchen.

Good deal, yes. Great deal, no.