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As if bottle service nightclubs wasn't fancy enough: amNY reports that City Councilwoman Melinda Katz is proposes that nightclubs should have waiters pour drinks for those with bottle service at nightclubs. Katz says this would be a way to keep people from drinking too much and underage drinking. Hmm, what about drink stealing? Or people buying drinks for others? And restaurants won't have to worry - this proposal would only affect nightclubs.
Originally, the City Council considered completely banning bottle service, which is the somehow acceptable practice of nightclubs charging in the hundreds for bottles of alcohol you'd usually pay $20-30 for at the liquor store. Naturally, the New York Nightlife Association opposed that and Katz offered this amended proposal, which the NYNA still doesn't like. NYNA spokesman Robert Bookman saying, "If you station a waitress at every table then that is the end of bottle service and that is the end of a lot of nightclubs."
New York magazine had an amusing history of bottle service: 1993, VIP Treatment: To promote a “small,” 200-person VIP section of the Tunnel, Jeffrey Jah and Mark Baker offer bottle service at $90. With drinks at $6, customers actually save about $30.
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At $300 for a bottle of stoli there should be a waitress there to pour, probably a busboy to toss my salad too
If you're willing to pay $300 for a $25 bottle of vodka for the privilege of hanging at a club, you're a cheesy idiot.
bottle service at least lets you have a comfy seat so you dont chill with the losers at the bar waving their 20's around. and EVERY club should at least have the hostess pour the first round because gratuity is mandatory. I'm 25, so I don't know how to club w/o gettin a table
LOL... $500 for a bottle of Grey Goose
ROFL rich or not... that's is just hilarious, bow down to the marketing genious that conned these dot com idiots into buying into this.
Although I never get bottle service myself, the economics make sense, especially when going to a club/lounge with a large group of people. Get the minimum bottle for a table and hang on to that table for the night buying only cheap drinks, splitting the cost of the bottle several ways.
Although some places do rush people who order just one bottle from the table after an hour or so, most don’t.
Bottom line: As long as there are people willing to blow that kind of money on cheap booze, it will continue costing 300+ for Grey Goose
remind me... who's bitching about gas prices?
it's primarily i-bankers with tiny penises who order bottles so that they can appear like big shots.
Anyone who is stupid enough to fork over $500 for a bottle of $30 vodka deserves to fork over $500 for a bottle of $30 vodka.
I'd never even heard of bottle service until this "announcement". I.e., who cares.