I think management still overlooks the "advertising" potential of lapdances. A good business devotes a significant amount of its operating budget to advertising, and MBOT management should realize this. Give up trying to make a profit from lapdances. Low priced dances 1) bring in customers and 2)can serve as a "gateway drug" that leads to the big-ticket sales. Entry level economics I would think.

BTW mr/ms mbot-messenger, you probably won't get shot for this news!

Peace

I haven't been to the MBOT in over a year, but the last few times I was there it was as dead as the morgue. Usually no more than a dozen patrons. Let's face it the economy is shot and will get worse this year. Don't let the main stream media fool you that things are starting to turn around.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Employee relations 101.

Economics 101.

Mr/Ms MBOT_messenger - do you send as well as deliver? If you do, and do so effectively, maybe the MBOT will resurrect itself as the premiere adult entertainment venue that it once was.

Thanks.

haha, how did you know? Probably the most expensive tuition I've ever paid!

Never thought would have to jump in on the MBOT management side, but .... be for real. At no other club in the city do the dancers keep 100% of every LD dollar. At almost no club anywhere else do they keep 100% of the LD money either. Advocating that the club get a 0% cut is delusional. If the dancers do a decent number of LDs and PSs then the stage tips are 100% free of direct management skim ( DJs , matrons, bouncers, etc. not included. ). Going to where 2 out of 3 revenue source are not available to the management will just force them to jack the 3rd ( PS ) up higher into sky high levels. You folks want higher PS? They failed econ 101?? Doesn't seem to be a shortage of slept through econ 101 around here at all.

If the MBOT dancers start doing dozens of LDs then perhaps a sliding scale on management cut. ( $15 out of the first 10 and then some kind of volume kickback reward after that. Or something along those lines** ). However, they first need to get customers to actually show up before they get to that stage. They have run off all the LDs customers, that can be fixed once they get them back.

Their LD prices are just high now... not crackhead stupid high. The "Grey Poupon" crowd will still be happy they are paying higher than market rates.

LDs aren't "ads. They are a service. Nobody wants some pussy made out of gold LD where the whole session is spent pitching where the "real money" service is. If the management only makes money if they get the customers into a PS booth that is all the dancer is going to care about. Management is likely to threaten to fire them unless they hit their PS quota (since only source of income) so their view is going to get warped.

** if the dancer is making $15/hrs. then perhaps an inflection point at $120 which is 8 LDs. At that point her "min" wages are paid for and just need some PSs to cover the benefits/overhead. The LDs over that get some cashback or "slow day, get out of jail free" credits. The latter you don't give them crap on slow days if they build up enough of them. Give them a LD tax free day if build up too many (exteremely doubtful these days).

Agree, bringing back the Cabana would do it for me. They used to be a great quickie alternative. They could make it more like a LD where you book a Cabana for $15 as well. Even $20 would be worth it. I think I've fingered more girls in the Cabanas than anywhere else. Also add a little time to the premium GD booths to make it more worth while. The girls won't like that but they have to give a little as well.

$30 dances were actually being offered frequently over the last year or so (mostly day), but the couches were still usually empty.

You're outta luck. You just lost half the value on those chips. You definitely should not have been hanging on to those chips.