V.I.P. Doesn't Mean Free Reign.

As I have mentioned before, part of the clubs growing success is the V.I.P. section.  For those not familiar with the concept, the V.I.P. section gives the group purchasing the service a bottle of middle-top shelf liquor,  various containers of mixed drinks and the exclusive use of a roped off V.I.P. section that they can invite people into, while making their own drinks with their own alcohol and mixers.

This V.I.P. service, and its cost would cause one to think that it would attract more responsible and aged individuals who can afford such exclusivity.  Unfortunately that is not always the case, and many wanna be V.I.P.'s regularly pool some cash together between five or six friends and then go party in their private area with little regard to responsibility or acting like a gentleman.  Most of the time these wanna-be-V.I.P.'s get too drunk and end up being the biggest problems for security.

Well, the story to be told actually involves one of these groups of wannabe's and how they made some serious policy adjustments for our club.  It was a Saturday night, and a group of college students had purchased use of the V.I.P. section and invited about twenty of their closest friends to come celebrate whatever event they were celebrating with them.  With the large number of people pooling money these patrons were able to order several bottles of Vodka at the elevated price.

Because the bottles are then brought directly to their exclusive section, their individual drinking is not monitored by the bartenders.  The bottles are delivered to the V.I.P. sections and then left there for the party goers to do what they please with them.  Because they receive the alcohol in this manner, the patrons can consume as much of the bottle as they want.  With this freedom on the amount of alcohol they can consume people tend to become drunker than would normally be allowed by bartenders who monitor intoxication.

On this particular Saturday night, that was exactly the case, and despite problems with the group in V.I.P. as a whole in terms of intoxication, the real problem came once the club was closed and we thought everyone had already left.  While checking the downstairs bathroom I discovered an individual passed out on the toilet with his pants down, slumped forward vomiting into his pants.  Stunned at the scene i attempted to awaken him and help him regain his consciousness.

Unsuccessful in waking up the inebriated man I grabbed some co-workers and we all decided the police would be the best personnel to deal with this individual.  The police came and not wanting to touch him either called paramedics, who finally wheeled him out in a wheel chair.  This episode of extreme drunkenness is cause for my 6th rule: Just because they are in the V.I.P. doesn't mean they are responsible, you must monitor their drunkenness!

This situation was dealt with and the man was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with alcohol poisoning.  The funniest thing about this story is that the guy had actually been in to interview with my boss, and after finishing his interview had taken a walk through of the club.  His friends, who had the V.I.P. section that evening flagged him down and got him so drunk that he passed out sick on a toilet.  Lets just say that he didn't get the job...