Only been open for six months and already starting to go downhill

It's been several months so I figured an update to my last review was in order as no one else has posted anything. The layout is the same and they still don't open until 9, but there is now a cover charge of $10 unless it is a "special event", then it's $20. The owner gave out discount cards (a whopping $5 off cover) when the place first opened but the door thug wouldn't take it on a "normal" night specifically saying, those are only for special events when the cover is $20. If you guessed the same guy wouldn't honor the card when the cover was $20 on this visit, you'd be right. No one could tell us what the "special event" was either.

Not off to a great start at the door, although we did walk in without any pat-down. Later there were full pat-downs and a metal detector wand being used, and they had what appeared to be a constable doing it. That said, they did allow two different people in wearing full face masks (balaclavas, not covid masks), which seemed odd when it was 60* that afternoon and wasn't that cold outside. When we arrived around 930, it was EMPTY. No other customers, no one dancing, and a few dancers sitting/wandering around. Like before, the bartenders were the most attractive girls there. As the evening progressed, they did fill up with dancers (probably 20 or so wandering around) and a few mentioned they thought a couple of birthday parties were expected that evening. 95% of the girls were AA, and 80%+ of them were on the bigger/heavier side. There were only 2-3 white girls, and no Asian or Latin girls that I saw. A couple of the AA girls sat and talked, none hustled for a dance. I even asked about the upstairs layout and was told there are some standard lap-dance style booths (i.e. bench seat and a curtain) and a couch area up there for dances. Upstairs is for 15 minutes or longer dances, by the song is still done in the room behind the stage. I wasn't pitched on pricing (previously $90/3 or $300/half hour) or propositioned to go. I'm not complaining because I had no interest in the majority of the dancers I saw, so the lack of any pressure was nice.

The place seems to get going later. We bailed a bit after midnight and the place was maybe half full, mainly a large group in the small table area next to the bar. No one sat at the stage because girls only went up there occasionally. There is no DJ, music is loud and run off someone's phone but that means no annoying DJ patter all the time. It also means no one is running the show, so there wasn't one. Dancers wandered, talked together, and sat at the bar, not many engaging customers and only dancing when they felt like it (which wasn't much).