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Originally Posted by tazzy
It wasn;t a snack bar no (or at least not a standard one). Just a normal little pub. I don't see how having a female staff member should have been a hint. Women commonly work in innocent non-sleazy bars (e.g. my usual, some people I know back home, etc...) and this woman though not quite a mama san certainly wasn't hostess material and was dressed quite normally.
I've heard stories of other people encountering similar stuff in apparently innocent random pubs.
And it is mad, its very unusual and makes no sense, I don't get how they get business.
Yep, in hindsight should have asked but it just didn't strike that we would have to, it was just a little pub, nothing special to suggest there would be an entry fee.
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Take what Columbine and what Masaegu say seriously. In regards to snack bars, all snack bars have women working at them (well, there are probably exceptions, but as a rule that is part of the definition.) Just because a bar is "non-sleazy" does not mean it is not a snack. In other words not all (or even most) snack bars are sleazy, in my experience. I think among foreigners they have a reputation as being a waste of money because the culture of paying for more than just the drinks you purchase doesn't exist really in Western culture. The thinking goes "paying for things I don't drink, ergo waste of money, ergo rip-off, ergo sleazy." This is slippery slope that isn't really the case.
Not all the women who work at these places look like "hostesses". I have been to snack bars with the workers in jeans and t-shirts.
The question isn't "how do they make money?" because they obviously do. The question is "why don't I understand this business model?".