Pole tax at Strip clubs

[oldbutstillgoing]

For those that don't know, the state changes clubs a tax on every patron that enters the club. It's been around for several years. The club can choose to eat the tax or pass it on in the cover charge to get in or possibly in higher drink prices. It was $5 for years, though a manager told me it increased to $10 this year.

Some clubs choose to reduce or have no cover during the day as an enticement to get people in the door and recover it in drinks. At night, prime time for clubs, most charge more cover because they don't need to draw people in.

I have noticed some have increased drinks and food prices over the last year. Other have valet only parking. If you don't know, clubs get as much as 1/2 of that valet charge. Some have higher covers.

Why does this matter? For most guys, most of the time, it really doesn't. If the club has the right dancers, we go. I just like to be an informed consumer. But I know guys who go in a club, order one drink, or tea, etc, have their fun then leave. Then they wonder why some guys get treated by management and staff so much better than them. If the club is losing money by you being there, they really don't want you. You don't have to be a huge spender, but being known as a good customer means management tends to be more tolerant and over looks things.

Keep that in mind when you notice a manager hovers around you when you're getting dances. They may be looking for an excuse to kick you out, not because you're getting extras but because your cheap.

[TomCollins]

I think all the clubs pretty much stopped paying that and the state never enforced collections. And a bunch of lawyers got rich on both sides.

[onlyAMPs4menow]

Originally Posted by oldbutstillgoing

For those that don't know, ........

Keep that in mind when you notice a manager hovers around you when you're getting dances. They may be looking for an excuse to kick you out, not because you're getting extras but because your cheap.

Hey guys, I am going to grace you with my all knowing opinion and help you out but in the end, I am going to do my usual move and dunk on you by calling you a cheap ass.

Oh yeah, and I spend all of my millions with strippers not cause I am hard up like the rest of you but because...they really love me.

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[Chung Tran]

What the 2 guys above said... And the example of the Manager hovering over the Customer, fails miserably. That customer is spending money, a lot of money. And when he gets satisfied, he stays and drinks more. Comes back regularly.

[oldbutstillgoing]

Originally Posted by TomCollins

I think all the clubs pretty much stopped paying that and the state never enforced collections. And a bunch of lawyers got rich on both sides.

The state won all the lawsuits about the tax. Some clubs had to pay ALOT of back taxes because of it.

[oldbutstillgoing]

Originally Posted by onlyAMPs4menow

Hey guys, I am going to grace you with my all knowing opinion and help you out but in the end, I am going to do my usual move and dunk on you by calling you a cheap ass.

Oh yeah, and I spend all of my millions with strippers not cause I am hard up like the rest of you but because...they really love me.

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You clearly know NOTHING about my spending habits in or out of the clubs. Management, like the dancers, are happy to see me because they know I spend money. Not as much as some, but enough to be considered a good customer. And they do indeed give me a lot more slack than the cheap customers.

[KFB]

There is some food for thought if you aren't getting the results you want in the club. I don't like using the word cheap, I would say that the club is like any other business in the service industry where there is some ymmv fair or unfair, and it's not solely based on money. There was a complaint in another thread that management seems to make up rules as they go, which I agree with that take. But the flipside is they can also make rules in your favor. I think that was the point op was making but it got obscured because of the word cheap. There's managers at my regular clubs that I'm cool with that I've never tipped, just being nice can go a long way. And I've also tipped managers if they've done something to deserve it too.

[oldbutstillgoing]

Originally Posted by KFB

There is some food for thought if you aren't getting the results you want in the club. I don't like using the word cheap, I would say that the club is like any other business in the service industry where there is some ymmv fair or unfair, and it's not solely based on money. There was a complaint in another thread that management seems to make up rules as they go, which I agree with that take. But the flipside is they can also make rules in your favor. I think that was the point op was making but it got obscured because of the word cheap. There's managers at my regular clubs that I'm cool with that I've never tipped, just being nice can go a long way. And I've also tipped managers if they've done something to deserve it too.

I don't tip the managers with rare exceptions. I expect them to do their job. In the clubs I go to, all the managers know my name and greet me when I go in. I call them by name and thank them when they do something for me. They know I am not a guy who comes in and spends $1000. But the club makes money when I am there, I don't cause problems and treat the dancers politely. If I have a problem with a dancer, etc, they take care of it. They tend to look the other way if a dancer and I are getting a little frisky though being discrete and knowing what I can get away with is important.

I do at Xmas time, gift the very best managers with a small tip as appreciation for all they do.

[onlyAMPs4menow]

If strip club managers know you by name, you just proved my earlier assertions correct.

If you brag about it, case closed.