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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Dancing at a Drive-through Strip Club Lucky Devil Lounge had to shut down
due to the coronavirus — then reopened at a safe social distance.
http://www.thecut.com/2020/05/dancers-drive-through-strip-club-coronavirus.html
What the hell am I going to do?” That’s the question dancers at Portland’
s Lucky Devil Lounge asked when the strip club was forced to shut down on
March 16 due to Oregon’s stay-at-home order. Perhaps no other type of small
business has been hit harder by social-distancing guidelines than one that
typically involves close contact between employees and patrons. The clubs
are ineligible for assistance from the federal government’s Paycheck
Protection Program, which asks applicants to confirm they do not “present
live performances of a prurient sexual nature.” And though Lucky Devil is
beloved by many of its dancers, who say it is an environment where they are
treated like family, it’s still a strip club: Dancers don’t make an hourly
wage but rely on tips. They don’t have benefits or paid time off. They are
gig workers.
Owner Shon Boulden immediately pivoted the club’s in-house kitchen to
delivery, but he came up with an additional solution: have the dancers
deliver the food, with a show, which he initially called “Boober Eats” (
now it is “Lucky Devil Eats”). A few weeks later, he added a drive-through
pickup option, in which patrons can get their food while watching dancers
on either side work the poles. If it’s busy, they can stay for a song, but
if not they can stay longer or request another for an additional tip. Both
the delivery service and the drive-through, called “Food 2 Go-Go,” cost an
additional $30; the club has instituted intense sanitation protocols with
masks, gloves, and even temperature checks. |
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