Strip clubs losing days of the week

I have noticed it too.

Generally, inner city clubs (in large cities) are Tuesday to Sunday. I rarely ever see a club open on Monday. I'm sure it happens in some places but out of the 20 clubs I have visited it is rare.

Your urban clubs (mostly black dancers) are almost always Thursday to Saturday. I would do research before attempting a Thursday visit. Rural clubs are typically in the same boat as urban clubs, it's just not profitable to be open more than 3 days.

I would also guess that it's based very heavily on dancer volume and clientele. Dancers in urban clubs are more likely to have full time jobs in addition to dancing, while dancers in richer areas may make enough off their full shifts.

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a "last stand". I have noticed this trend for the better part of a decade. It's more a sign of the economic viability of keeping a club open multiple days per week. You either need a consistent flow of traffic or very big earners spending frequently for it to stay profitable.

There's a good reason Big box retailers stay open everyday, and it's not because of the service.

These strip clubs have lost their mind. The price increases and a lot of clubs are hiring any bitch that isn't scared to take their clothes. So you are paying more to see mediocre strippers.

The strip club is slowly dying like the night clubs. If they don't cut prices, I can see strip clubs dying out like the VHS.

@ Icey, I have noticed the mandatory "must work 3 weekdays" policy in effect at multiple clubs. It definitely works, but it cements my point. Outside of executive meddling, weekdays would be more empty. I definitely appreciate being able to visit clubs anytime during the week, so it's a win for everyone.

Around here a couple of the topless clubs bagged dayshift starting at noon and opt for 3:00. One topless club is only open during the afternoon on Fridays. Some clubs re closed Mon/Tue or Sun/Mon. The top dog, Desires is open on the same schedule they've always been open andhas the best dayshift north of pompano.

I think strip clubs going Thursday-Saturday nights is just the sign of the times and not necessarily due to anything the club did.

I know of some restaurants / bars that were once open seven days a week have now reduced their hours. One restaurant in particular where I get take out is now closed on Monday and has reduced hours on Tuesday and Sunday. And a lot of bars have reduced their hours by simply opening later.

It seems now its best to call ahead to confirm the hours of any business and not just assume they will be open.

agree, I'm seeing a trend of Wednesday-Saturday only. It's too bad because my work schedule means I have lots of free time on Tuesdays and Sundays. Oh well.

it's always been watered down wednesdays

Clubs, as with any other business, are still suffering from the pandemic money give away which convinced many young people that they don't have to work and do they don't. Clubs have to have less hours due to a lack of employees combined with a lack of quality employees, which is why some shifts at the clubs look like "My 600 pound life".

@ Icey, some of it is probably location. I'm 33 and it amazes me how so many midsize and large cities close shop at 11 pm. I understand nobody wants hang arounds, but you'd think more places would have a gas station model where they are at least open until 1 am.

And this isn't just Covid, I have seen this happening for years before the pandemic was announced.

@ skibum, I agree with you. The problem now is that the free money from pandemic has been gone for a year at least. RTO (return to office) is more prevalent than ever before from major corps. Elon Musk, Trump's best friend, will ensure that continues.

I don't mind having different employees, but the prices have honestly gotten out of control. The stripper expectations have literally hit critical mass. Clubs have decided to milk PLs more and we visit less to compensate for it.

i'm a die on this goddamn hill, arguing this until i'm blue in the face:

i've ranted & raved before...the real reason strip clubs are dying, and late night in general is dying, etc is because of.....YouTube.

yes, ok, it's also the price of the cover charge, the cost of parking, the cost of drinks at the bar, the price of lapdances, whatever. but if you ask me, put all that aside. the true reason strip clubs are dying is: YOUTUBE.

hear me out, y'all: nowadays, any music is featured on YouTube. You can find old-school, new school, and even albums that just came out today as in this morning are already on YouTube. This is what's killing strip clubs and dance clubs / discos.

you see, back in the day, we didn't have YouTube. So, when you liked a song, you had to tape it off the radio with your cassettes or actually go out of your house to buy it or go out of your house to go to a club or disco to hear it. That's why clubs were packed back in the day. It was a sweet deal. You'd pay $10-20 to get in to the club and you'd hear a bunch of your favorite songs all night. Before YouTube, going to the club was YouTube.

how does strip clubs come in? glad you asked! girls always love hearing different music but don't always know where to go to hear it. like: girls liked ratchet and hard core rap music. but didn't know where to go to hear it and most importantly to enjoy it. going to some dance clubs were just too dangerous. strip clubs were the answer. at a strip club, girls could enjoy music they didn't have the money to buy and hear the DJ arranged all the music expertly all night long.

Then YouTube came. Now, girls have access to all types of music they can enjoy. What do they need a strip club for? Same with discos / dance clubs. People stopped going because now we have our own FREE access to all the music we could ever want, in YouTube and Spotify and Pandora.

Nobody realized all these years, all this time, it' wasn't really that people in the 70s enjoyed going to Studio 54 or that people in the 80s and 90s enjoyed raves, clubbing, etc. We didn't have access to The MUSIC. We couldn't afford every single song we liked. That's what we paid the DJ, the collector of music to do every weekend, show off his music collection. That's all raves, dance clubs were. We went to a warehouse and paid the DJ, the cat who collected music and they in-turn showed off their music collection and then we danced and went home. We did this for years and decades. Until YouTube put all of our music on the internet. Now we have 24/7 hour access to all the music we could ever want and we stopped going to strip clubs stopped going to raves and late night clubs, etc.

it was always, always about the music. i'll die on this hill

yeah, man, i'll die on this hill.

think about it. remember: once we bought the album or the cassette of our favorite songs, back in the day, it was quite a different experience being at a dance club, or being at a strip club and hearing that song mega-loud vs playing the song loud as you can in your house. it was better. at home, maybe some didn't like your music, so you had to keep the thrash music, the hard core rap music, the speed metal music, the death metal music, the explicit lyrics music, you had to keep that at a certain volume level. but don't know know you could hear ANYTHING at the strip club. especially if you went a lot. strip clubs are open for hours and hours. playing non-stop music. you were guaranteed to hear everything at a strip club. B-sides of songs. Entire albums. Bonus tracks.

girls told other girls. hey come to the club i'm dancing at they play great music. was the music really great? no. it's just that the average person didn't have the money to pay for all that music. but we found one person, the DJ who somehow collected all this music from God knows where and played it all night, with cussing, and mixing, you name it.

at the strip club, you could bang music as loud as you wanted. there was a sweet spot in time where awesome local girls worked the strip club because they were into the music that was playing there. not only could girls hear interesting music they just didn't always hear on the radio, guys would shower them with money too. This woulda went on forever and ever, but someone decided to put music FREE online and killed the party.

Now everyone has access to FREE music all the time, and now music bores the hell outta everyone. A song comes out on Monday. By Wednesday we know the entire song. Not because it's played all the time. But with YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, you can hit the REPLY button all day long and learn any song quick fast. It absolutely wasn't like this back in the day. A song came out, it took you awhile to know the entire song really well. Without YouTube, etc. You had to rely on listening to it on your cassette tape, on your record player and it wasn't enough, it took you time. Nowadays a song comes out on Monday, you can download it free, you rebel, have it on your cell phone, have it as your ringtone, have it playing on your Google, have Alexa play it for your in all the rooms of your house.

I'm telling you: remove everyone's access to music, watch the clubs / discos and strip clubs go back to crowded nights again.

Gothamyte...You make a good point. The Covid money giveaway also is a effect... I know some people that still haven't gone back to work because they got spo!led by the free money.

In my favorite club they're still open pretty much 24/7. and Monday and Tuesday are still decent slow nights.

But these high prices definitely have caused me to back off-

hgih inflation and rising unemployment is a doom loop which are going to cause a lot more pain before things get righted again. I am cognizant that Trump's plans for deportation, reduced immigration, and tariffs are likely to cause their own pain before we start to feel the benficial effects, but I do believe that his policies are the smart and right thing to do for the American citizen. This could help strip clubs by stemming the flow of unskilled labor and fat, untalented, immigrants taking over the strip clubs. We know that inflation will subside, but it will be up to the club management to adjust prices to more affordable costs.

My last two Sunday trips to grab a beer and watch football were so amazingly bad, that I have not bothered in two months. One of the clubs actually stopped showing sports on the TVs, as if that was the reason that guys were not buying dances. Maybe because you are staffing dancers with unibrows and pot bellies, could that be the reason I didn't want any dances? Actually saw that Vixens.

^ weirdo got kicked out of Vixens for being too weird

Kind of sad to see the demise of day shifts at a lot of clubs. I never was a dsyshift guy much - my favorite clubs were a bit of a drive so I usually went Friday nights or Saturday nights. But I know there’s a strong loyal following of dayshift customers.

It's kind of funny, but before TUSCL I just assumed that day shift sucked everywhere. It definitely sucked in Chicago and New Orleans. I believed that everywhere had a day shift made up of the b-team, and if you wanted the A-team you need not arrive any earlier than 10PM. However, there were a couple of times where I was walking into a club earlier than normal and saw some pretty hot dancers walking out.

Florida is different, or it was different. I think that is because there are so many retirees here, in God's waiting room, that would only go during the day for any number of reasons - afraid to drive at night, cannot stay awake past 8PM, afraid of the younger after dark crown and 2AMers, etc. I was surprised at how much hot talent I could find in clubs around Florida during the day shift. Some clubs require dancers to work a weekday daytime shift if they want the high-rolling weekend nighttime action. That is not the case anymore. If the clubs around here start closing certain days to save labor costs, that would be a real reason to worry.