It did happen in Angeles City. Long before the Koreans showed up.
[QUOTE=MadDin19;2895328]What's going on on Soi 6 has absolutely nothing to do with Angels City or any Koreans. It can only be traced back to a single guy who has been using his money to change the business model of Soi 6 for a few years without being financially successful (Nightwish). It used to be about fu*, today it's about lady drinks. In the past, the girls and the bar owners earned a lot more than they do today.
Every bar used to have a good mamasan who made sure that no customer sat alone at the table. Today the girls stand outside on the street and call customers in. These customers then sit alone in the bar and drink a beer. Then they leave again because they are too bored.
To run a bar successfully you have to consider 2 things:
1. You have to be able to attract customers to the bar.[/QUOTE]Actually, the transition from the girls providing good / great value sexually to them hustling customers for Lady Drinks instead because the bar owners and management wanted it that way and with increased pressure and higher LD commissions implemented to make it so is exactly what happened in Angeles City in the Philippines.
Only the transition in Angeles City did not begin a few years ago and it wasn't at the behest of Korean bar owners.
It happened about 30 years ago and at the behest of Western bar owners.
Yep, they formed a "consortium" or group of Western bar owners from the bars on Field Avenue back then too and their meetings were all about making sure everyone was on the same sheet of music about raking in as much money on Lady Drink sales from the girls and good STs or LTs regarding sex be damned. They didn't give a shit about that anymore.
In fact, if the girl gave crap service in the room, all the better. Then her customer, who had been required to Pre-Pay the whole bundle Upfront at the bar and TO the bar management, will surely kick her out early and, bingo, back to the bar she went to earn more LD commissions and make her boss smile big time.
They also knew that very, very few punters would have the brass balls to March back to the bar, complain and demand his Pre-Paid money back.
I know. I was there before the transition, during the transition and after the transition. I knew several Field Avenue gogo bar owners at the time. I was privy to what was being agreed to at those meetings.
And there was plenty of screaming, anger and complaining about it on Angeles City message boards at the time. Sure, as a punter I advised the bar owners I was acquainted with not to make that change. Didn't matter, of course. They did it anyway.
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Soi Six Business Model: More Revenue from Downstairs Than Upstairs
[QUOTE=MadDin19;2895328]What's going on on Soi 6 can only be traced back to a single guy who has been using his money to change the business model. It used to be about f******, today it's about lady drinks. In the past, every bar used to have a good mamasan who made sure that no customer sat alone at the table. Today the girls stand outside on the street and call customers in. These customers then sit alone in the bar and drink a beer. Then they leave again because they are too bored.[/QUOTE]Good points all. And let's not forget that even if a guy finds a girl he fancies and buys her a few drinks, he may discover to his dismay that she declines to go upstairs.
I think there are several macro factors encourage this lamentable move away from how Soi Six used to operate in the good old days. The Thai economy is doing pretty well, especially in the manufacturing sector where Thailand competes strongly to be a low cost producer of goods high on the value chain. There are plenty of jobs for workers with low educational attainment. Birth rates are falling. So there are fewer young people leaving the farm in search of a better life, which translates into fewer young women finding their way to Pattaya. Finally, it seems like customer preferences have changed. There are now enough guys willing to sit and drink that the bars and the girls can make a living on "downstairs" revenue alone. Or perhaps *mostly* on downstairs revenue. I could get off on a rant here about the wimpy losers who prefer sipping and staring to climbing the stairs. But that's a waste of time. I think I'll go yell at some clouds instead.
Bunky
