Hong Kong Club Reports

[Bbond]

Not true, its higher than $1. 26, but the employer -must- pay up to the state min wage. It is an absolute floor.

Year 25 Employees or Fewer 26 or More Employees.

2019 $11/ hour $12/ hour.

2020 $12/ hour $13/ hour.

2021 $13/ hour $14/ hour.

2022 $14/ hour $15/ hour.

2023 $15/ hour.

Minimum wage for servers in California is the same as it is elsewhere in the state regardless of the fact that waiters and waitresses receive tips. Tips don't count toward minimum wage for servers in California. Employers must pay them the state's standard minimum wage.

https://www.yeremianlaw.com/articles...in-california/

[Captain Solo]

In Cascada's fridge, beers are $3, juices $2, water $1. When you check out, reception sends a guy scurrying to the room to check the fridge. They will deduct your deposit for any missing drinks, even if the attendants forgot to restock after the last guy. If you did not take any drink, just tell them so. They have been honest and would back down on my words. To avoid errors, count the 10 drinks in the fridge after check in, tell the attendants If any is missing.

It seems 2021 had fewer guys in HK on weekends compared to previous years before CoVid hit. There were also fewer girls doing much less business this year. A lot of regulars have not come back. I did not see any indication of more SE Asia guys. There are many hot young girls just starting the business in HK, not making any money. I hope the bros would go around, talk to them, tip them to encourage them to stay. You may find some very hot, sweet girls still fresh.

Yep. You should move to CDMX so I have someone to hang out with when I am there.

[ClownDays]

They have rip off scheme too with the deposit for overnight stays. During my last trip after Thanksgiving they did it twice. Paid the $30 deposit and received just $25-$26 back. I should of contested but the first time I recognized this was already back across the border and the 2nd time downstairs waiting for the shuttle. They try to clip you any phucking way they can.

They had better enjoy the surplus of weekend mongers now while they can with Asian countries shut down and restricted due to COVID. Have to think more discounts offered once world eventually opens fully back up and mongers that typically go elsewhere stop coming to TJ. I think the Dominican Republic is open up for travel and mongering now.

I'm looking very closely at moving to Mexico sometime the back half of 2022 to focus on my small business while reducing my overhead. Would love TJ but there are more affordable options down country or maybe even outskirts of CDMX.

Don't want to go down the 'rona rabbit hole, but the data out of South Africa is pretty encouraging. The anecdotal reports out of the US and some of the early data out of the UK look good. I'm expecting the world to fully re-open within the next 5-6 months, if not sooner.

We should have a pretty good idea what that's going to mean for the re-distribution of monger money for a bunch of these places sometime around late summer.

I don't expect HK or Cascadas to lower prices. If the market gets flooded with chicas going back to work, it's overall going to be good for all of us, though.

[Captain Solo]

Sorry guys.

The article must have had errors. I also thought their figure was way too low.

Artistic performers have to pay for their own stage time? Must be very hard to make enough tips to live on.

[Travv]

Smashing the water meter will delay the correct bill for a month or so. Bribing the meter readers delays the correct bills for up to 30 years till the meter reader retires! 30 Years is now up and Tijuana is looking to recover the underpaid water bills. . .

Don't you think the old sledge hammer on the meter trick will render it impossible to get an accurate reading?

[Cocr Brotheler]

They have rip off scheme too with the deposit for overnight stays. During my last trip after Thanksgiving they did it twice. Paid the $30 deposit and received just $25-$26 back. I should of contested but the first time I recognized this was already back across the border and the 2nd time downstairs waiting for the shuttle. They try to clip you any phucking way they can.

They had better enjoy the surplus of weekend mongers now while they can with Asian countries shut down and restricted due to COVID. Have to think more discounts offered once world eventually opens fully back up and mongers that typically go elsewhere stop coming to TJ. I think the Dominican Republic is open up for travel and mongering now.

I'm looking very closely at moving to Mexico sometime the back half of 2022 to focus on my small business while reducing my overhead. Would love TJ but there are more affordable options down country or maybe even outskirts of CDMX.

[Dg8787]

Read somewhere that a lot of big businesses in Tijuana were paying off employees of the municipal water utility to short their water meter reads and billings and this had been going on for years. Now the government is going after these businesses for the underpaid water bills accumulated over many years. . . Think it was to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to Tijuana municipality for these big businesses over many years. . . Wonder if any hotels or clubs got back billed recently?

Don't you think the old sledge hammer on the meter trick will render it impossible to get an accurate reading?

[Dg8787]

Not true, its higher than $1. 26, but the employer -must- pay up to the state min wage. It is an absolute floor.

And here I thought the Captain knew everything. California minimum wage for tipped employees is $13.00 per hour. Period. No exceptions.

Some places get away from having to pay stripper / dancers by saying they are artistic performers and charge them for "stage time" for their performances.

[SpeedToys]

F In California minimum wage for tip workers is $1.26 an hour.

Not true, its higher than $1. 26, but the employer -must- pay up to the state min wage. It is an absolute floor.

[Captain Solo]

For 2021 it was about $12 per day, increase to $13 for 2022.

I understand HK will not pay people working tip-based jobs, like meseros, hotel room attendants, bathroom attendants, valet parking. Instead those people have to pay HK for their jobs to earn tips, which can be a lot more than minimum wages. The hustling meseros can make $100-200 tips on busy nights. It's a damn good job in Mexico. Looks like HK treats putas as independent contractors. They are not completely independent but have pretty flexible work schedule, have to follow work rules, but are unpaid. Strippers are paid 500 pesos for 3 performances. They survive entirely on selling sex, fichas and tips.

That system would have problems reporting legal payroll and got HK into troubles.

It's not an outrageous practice. In California minimum wage for tip workers is $1.26 an hour. Read news articles that Hooters girls complained bitterly they make so little with this low min wage when guys don't tip.

[Gregyyr]

Nothing,

Appreciate your info regarding cold, hard Lola. Guys need to log complaints if the girls break their promises. Girls with multiple complaints will be banished by HK 's management.

Your experience with Lola was actually not as bad as other guy, who were unfortunate to pick up hot lesbians. Lesbians are naturally disgusted with men, will act hostile in bed, restricting access and cause problems. A few bros had extremely bad sessions with this hot stripper Yselle, shown in the pic with her GF. She's pretty and sexy as hell, even won awards in stripping contests. She was back working in HK before Thanksgiving, always nice, sweet, feminine with me, but for unknown reasons, treat the other bros with disgust and hostilities in bed.

The bros should post names and pics of problem girls and cold, hard lesbos.

Thanks for posting. The Lola I knew from a couple years ago was a Sweet girl who I knew couldn't be the same girl that you described. I have not seen the Lola I knew in a year so maybe she is back home or something. She had really dark skin.

G.

[Jackie888]

Failure to keep the books in a high cash environment. Gee wiz. I sure hope the Cartels aren't using HK to launder money. Yeah, I'm sure it was an accident.

[SpeedToys]

Ahoy Capitano. Must have given me her real name as she took my phone and put in her digits +name+ where from. She has an ass that would fit in a tea cup and is tiny except for her recent additions which are topped by very long nipples. Area code is 55 so Mexico City checks out. We talked about food so much she says she will meet me in Cabo my next trip so I can cook for her. FWIW I am repulsed by big fake asses. They are out of control. Yesterday there were many that not even would belong in a cartoon. Will prolly hit HK once more on the last day of year even with rain coming. I will be the guy in the blue rain slicker if anyone wants to tip a few beers.

Same same. I can manage with _reasonably_ well done fake tits, but ass implant just make me ill.

[SpeedToys]

I figure they will be out from under a $800 K US fine, in about two weeks of fichas, bottles, and customer beers.

Just fichas, and conservatively they make $7/ ea profit on them. That's onlt 3800 bottles a night.

Then you get $600 bottles that cost $50. And that number goes _way_ down.

[Travv]

Read somewhere that a lot of big businesses in Tijuana were paying off employees of the municipal water utility to short their water meter reads and billings and this had been going on for years. Now the government is going after these businesses for the underpaid water bills accumulated over many years. . . Think it was to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars lost to Tijuana municipality for these big businesses over many years. . . Wonder if any hotels or clubs got back billed recently?

https://tecateinformativo.com/impone...nores-de-edad/

This article's says they got hit with a $16 MM peso fine. The headline says it was for hiring underage people, although there's no details in the article that actually detail what the infractions were, they just cite general labor violations.

https://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/Notic...s-al-Hong-Kong

This one offers more details. Basically it says that they ran afoul of a bunch of accounting and regulatory compliance issues, like keeping payroll receipts, not paying out required bonuses, not paying their utility bills (in Mexico the Government owns the utilities) and a bunch of other stuff like that. It doesn't say how far back this thing goes, and I don't care to look up the actual statement from the state Government, but a fine this big probably means that it goes back a long time or that the state Government thinks that they are making so much money, that they can take a hit like this and be completely fine.

The article is dated late October 2021, and that's about when people started reporting that the price of everything went up. Looks like they are indeed attempting to recover the $800,000 USD fine one ficha and one ST room at a time.