Used to be great, not so much right now...

I used to go to Cheetah every week for well over a year, from slightly before they installed the lighting cubes and the pole to about last October or November (2022). The place is very nicely decorated and clean, and it's couples and group friendly. It has two large bars, a few "free" tables near the stage where food is also served, a slightly larger "premium" area ($25/person for the night), a couple of adjacent VIP areas, 6-7 booths where you need bottle service, and a VIP lounge (used to be $50/night/person). The latter has 3 or 4 private VIP rooms; there are also 4 other "main" VIP rooms, a few VIP booths (really, nooks in the corridor outside the "main" VIP rooms), and a couple of improvised VIP rooms under the DJ booth. (I think there's another VIP "room" above/behind the DJ booth, but I haven't personally been there.) If you get there before ~9pm, chances are you can snag one of the "free" tables; if they're occupied, talk to one of the security people to get in the queue for one. There is one main dance stage with a pole, where up to 3-4 girls may be dancing (but only 1 if she's using the pole); there are also two other stages nearby where girls can dance without the pole. There's no smoking allowed anywhere. The overall atmosphere is more of a nightclub. However, early in the day, the place feels empty because of its size --- even if there are actually several clients and girls. After 10pm, it's generally very packed, with tens of dancers on a typical night.

Over the past 2 years, the dancer population has changed. There used to be a good mix of older/younger and multiracial (admittedly, fewer black dancers than you'd expect for Atlanta). Most importantly, there used to be a lot of impressive dancers --- the kind of women where you look twice, model-like; "statuesque" is probably the term that would come to most peoples' minds. Over the past few months, this has changed drastically for several reasons --- now, it's mostly very young dancers (typically under 21, as Cheetah is perhaps the only strip club they can work) *and* the quality has dropped quite a bit. Almost all the experienced dancers I've known have left for Tattletales, Pink Pony, and perhaps elsewhere. Having gotten to know many of them, they've told me that it's because of a combination of schedule and management inflexibility, and the fact that the way the club has evolved attracts people and/or groups (e.g., couples) that are less likely to spend heavily on the girls. Admission and VIP prices have also shot up quite a bit over this period. A fatal annoyance is the fact that all VIP rooms now have surveillance cameras in them --- bye bye "Privacy". Last I was there, the rooms themselves were $200-$400/hour, and the dancers another $400; that's not necessarily atypical, but combine with the lack of privacy and the annoying shot lady that just barges in without knocking to ask if you want any. (Only one of them does that; the other is more polite, discreet, and actually pleasant to talk to.)

The kitchen used to be great; decent menu, competently executed. In my experience, something changed around August/September 2022, for the worse. I have stopped going for Cheetah for dinner, for that person.