Comments by mroo (page 3)

If you want to make good money and still have a life on the side, try Pharmaceutical Sales Rep.

But for the grace of Allah, I left the lot an hour earlier. I'm not sure I'd want to have to tell my insurance agent the particulars on how my back bumper got ripped off by some hood rat from Fresno.

The most profitable and well run (from a business standpoint) clubs in my neck of the woods routinely spend roughly a quarter of a million dollars a year on legal expenses. As far as I know, their other expense is insurance- nuisance businesses like strip clubs pay insane rates on liability. Throw in a restaurant, add alcohol, and your fire insurance is going to be quite expensive as well. And no, you can't skip those. Your creditors will demand you carry that kind of insurance. Those issues aside, buying a business like a restaurant or an entertainment venue is a colossally stupid idea. The success of a business like that is absolutely not transferable. All business ventures related to either of those categories have a failure rate of 90% - 95% within any five year time span. Almost always, it's a matter of liquidity (running out of cash). Giving someone else a wad of the cash you're going to need is suicide. There's a reason why strip clubs are usually side ventures for people otherwise engaged in activities that handle a lot of cash. If you're that determined to work 90 hour weeks with no time off, then start one of your own and get an accountant to help you crank your numbers. Make that your second hire, after an attorney who's chummy with the regulators you're going to have to interact with.

I'm hardly one to talk, but damn dude, doesn't all that crap make you more than just a little numb? That's more than a little excessive. Put another way, hang out in a stable too long and you'll wind up smelling like the manure. Give your sanity a break.

I'll second Club_Goer's observation. Roughly 4/5 of the so called strip clubs in Portland are just bars that have a pole. With the exception of the juice clubs, money laundering operations/drug dealing fronts, and jack shacks, Portland strip club's revenue sources are from 1) Video Crack 2) Alcohol Sales 3) Food Sales 4) Stage Fees, in order of value. That goes for places as diverse as Nicolai Street to Wild Orchid.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e12-trapped-in-the-closet

I would have thought that even if the reader somehow managed to ignore that it was April 1st, they may have noticed that the author was I.C. Wiener. I guess there will always be a fraction of the population on the left hand of the bell curve that thinks wraslin' is real and strippers actually care about anything except your wallet.

Ignore is there for a reason. If you don't use it, you have no one to blame but yourself.

Ahhhh freakin' men.... Seriously, last two times I visited the Rhino, I was literally mugged at the door by dancers and had to fight for my wallet. The lap dances were uniformly lousy in the VIP and bench area and none of the staff gave a shit about providing good service. And the women? C'mon, they weren't that good looking in comparison to similar venues in Las Vegas- nothing you couldn't get for less bullshit than OG, Club Paradise, Treasures, etc... If you're looking for takeout, the menu is infinitely better elsewhere as well. I think the only place in Las Vegas that's more over-rated would be Smith & Wollensky's or the stinking pile of vomit they call The Hard Rock.

It's helped business where I live, as well as other SC's, bars, and restaurants in the region. Personally, I'm more likely to hang around in a place if I'm not going to come home smelling like a urine filled ashtray.

OK, I give up, how much pot do you have to smoke until you get to the point where anyone actually wants to discuss this in this forum? Don't you have 7,654,509,120 other forums to post this in?

Well done!

Beating A Dead Horse

I'd ask the guys at the table if they minded if I stole her away from them for a few minutes. There's nothing wrong with being politely assertive. In my experience, most customers respond politely (and go along with it) while the dancer is usually flattered as well.

Miss you? I wasn't even aiming at you!

How do you know your business sucks? When you have to write fake reviews for it.

And the sun is possibly a star, and it may rain in Portland.

"Once you can fake sincerity, you have it made" -PT Barnum

Anyone dumb enough to believe this is an actual review probably gets what they deserve.

This is for Club Rouge, not Club 205

Yeah, possible

C'mon, the only people who use the phrase "chill vibe" are sleazebag shills

Yeah, possible

Your club sucks, stop astroturfing and improve it instead

C'mon, really?