True. The stereotype used to be that drinks in "dance halls" were watered down to cheat the customers. Maybe they figured out they made more money if the drinks were stronger. It's true that Dom Perignon can run up to $500/bottle, but that's for the highest quality (per my internet research: I certainly can't afford the stuff). What are the odds a strip club is serving top-shelf champagne?
But even so, $19K is 38 bottles of top quality Dom!
I have no idea what a lap dance costs, but as I said, you can get a room full of high-priced call girls for less than $19K.
All clubs that I have been to in Miami (regular clubs on South Beach) have all used the same technique we use here, where I am from, when measuring drinks. It's a jigger that is a four count. The rule of thumb in any club, as a bartender, is that you never overpour because the less drinks you make... the less the tips.
A lot of people think that the drunker you get someone... the better the tips... which is 100% not true! The stronger the drink... the lower the sales are. I can only speak for our owner, but over pouring is a huge no no.
Bottles... buying bottles of liquor, in Miami, could be thousands of dollars a bottle depending on what he ordered? With anything... in a club (not just strip clubs) you are going to easily be paying a lot more for a bottle than what you would pay in a liquor store.
The most "singles" I have ever given to an individual group of people at the club I work at... was $20,000.00. Yes, they were showoffs and famous so I won't say who and I am not even in Miami... or even Fort Lauderdale.
I've never been to any strip clubs in Miami... so I can not speak for what they do down there... I just know the types of guys that come in these clubs who would love nothing but to get everything for free... even if they spend it themselves and want to complain later. Like the guys who get mad because they spend a thousand dollars on lapdances and get mad because the girl won't go out with them on a date... :banghead: As a bartender, I am constantly bombarded with complaints about how much they spend... why won't she go out with me... she just uses me... and on and on.
I actually wouldn't doubt it this has something to do with a scorned man wanting to date a stripper and after a night of him showing off... she wouldn't date him so now he wants his money back?
I want to see how this plays out??