
So where'd the $950 come from, then if you didn't think it was the $650 bottle + the $300 minimum?
At least now you're admitting that clubs DO operate that way.... keep tap dancing, friend.
I was adding in the costs, because not many clubs would say "$300 minimum", They'd say "2 bottle" or "1 bottle" minimum, but not "$300 minimum" unless that was going to be a separate cost, because that wording would be confusing.
There are parties where you will have to pay a cost for a table and it won't go to liquor. I never seen a party where the minimum is specifically a certain amount (ie. $300, other wise people would be buying drinks on separate cards with different tabs and not using the actual bottle service) Most clubs that have a minimum will say "2 bottles" or "1 bottle", not "$300", but I have personally thrown parties where you would pay $1.2K for a table and $200 of that would be snatched up for the cost of the table, so in a sense you would pay $200 to get on the table, with $1K for bottles to meet the rest of the financial obligation (I only throw parties for really big/special occasions though so clubs jack up the costs as well)...
I was never saying that clubs don't operate that way. Just that the cost isn't just "for a bottle". If it was just for that, people would be on the regular floor with bottles and people would be ordering single drinks with tables and "bottle" service would be pointless.
You know what, lemme stop. I forget that you are probably speaking on the side of a consumer and not an actual business person. I can see how to the eye of a customer, it looks like they are just paying "for bottles", but for someone who is actually in the business of event/party planning the perspective of things is a lot different. So I guess to the outside eye, it would look like you are just paying for bottles, power to you for thinking that, but to someone who has had to draw up the costs of things, they'd see the offset costs of special admission, VIP sections, waitresses, etc.
Like, did you pay "$650 for a bottle" or "$650 to skip the line, sit in this special section, have a waitress, with security, AND a bottle". There's a difference. I never said ole boy had to pay any more or less than the $650 he mentioned for his table + bottle.
Edit: Let me not say I haven't seen a club with a minimum, just not a low minimum.