Business and Entertainment
Anais pulled her mustang convertible into the parking lot of her new club, parking slightly away from the other car already there. She stepped out of the car and began the walk towards the building. She was wearing a white sleeveless mini sun dress with a red pair of square toe strappy heels paired with a matching red embossed leather crossbody bag.
Two women were working stocking the two lowboy display cabinets placed before the far wall. A door was in the center of the wall, the cabinets were placed on either side of the doors. In front of the door had been placed a podium upon which was a laptop. They were placing various sex toys; dildoes, vibrators, butt plugs, masturbators, penis pumps, cock rings, and strap on harnesses.
The ladies turned to her when she stepped into the room, Anais immediately made a mental note of this. One of the women stepped away from her task and met her halfway into the room. She was a black woman who wore her hair in a fade, she had an ultra-short afro mohawk. The sides of her head were almost shaved bald but had lines in what hair remained.
"Good morning mam. I'm sorry we are not currently opened for business."
"Oh, when do you open tonight?" Anais knew when the grand opening was but was testing the woman.
"We are not opening tonight. We are having our grand opening on the night the nude law goes into effect. It will be on the thirtieth, door opening at midnight so really the first."
Anais nodded her head as she was listening. "Thank you miss...I am sorry, what is your name?" Another mental note was made.
"Maisha mam."
"That is a beautiful name."
"Thank you, mam."
"Well Maisha, I would like you to do a favor for me."
"Certainly mam."
"Kindly inform Traci Diana that Anais has arrived."
All work in the room suddenly stopped as they heard her name. Traci Diana had been honest with all the two of them before they officially signed on about who she was and about her partner Anais. This was the first time she had visited since they started, so they gawked.
"I guess by the reaction that you know who I am. It would be better if those things were left in the boxes until we open. Another thing: that laptop can be placed in the office for the time being."
Maisha's jaw dropped for a moment then the slim woman hurried towards the door on the right. As Anais waited for Traci Diana, she wandered around the room introducing herself to the other woman in the room. The woman was of average height but with a little extra weight. Her natural hair was shaved on the right side while the left side was in cornrows and worn to the shoulders. It was also dyed blonde. Anais committed her name to memory using her special method taught to her as a child.
Traci Diana came running through the door quickly followed by Maisha. She wore a pair of tight blue jeans with a black backless halter top with her ever present black heels to make her seem taller. Anais wondered where Traci Diana's cock was because she could see no hint of it.
"Anais, you are back. How was Orlando?"
"It was great but weird in a way because I've lived there for almost ten years, so I know some parts like the back of my hand, but this is my home now and I have to remember that."
"Speaking of homes, the house in Orlando is sold?"
"Yep, they took possession yesterday."
"Good come see what I have done. You will love it. Have you met the girls?" Traci Diana hooked her arm around Anais as she led her through the interior door. "I have thought about placing the ads for servers, bartenders, performers, but not knowing anything about kitchen staff I decided to hold off on the whole thing."
"Where did Maisha and Kim come from?"
"It seems they were driving pass when we were touring the place with the previous owner. They along with half the city knew he wanted to sell. So one day they came by and asked what we were going to do with the place. They have been on board with the idea."
"How much are they costing us?"
"Nothing yet, they are just volunteering for now with the understanding that they are the first hires."
"What will they be applying for?"
"Maisha will be a hostess and Kim is a bartender."
They walked to roughly the center of the room. Tables and chairs for dining were stacked in front of the opened style kitchen. Several couches were placed before the stage, each with their own coffee tables and side tables. A few had matching chairs accompanying them while those of the Roman style were placed against the walls. Large floor vases were around the room usually near the Roman style couches.
Anais nodded slightly as she looked around. What she saw of the building so far was looking great. A fresh coat of paint had done wonders. Traci Diana had done a great job while she was in Orlando.
"How's the search for a chef?"
"To be honest, not well. There are no fine dining restaurants in town. I have searched the jobs boards, job apps and have found no one close to being right. I thought about keeping the kitchen staff from the previous nightclub, but with our target opening night being six months away I decided against it. I know nothing about running or planning a restaurant so did not want to fuck with it. I just hope we get a chef."
The nude law passed six months ago but it was decided to have it going to affect a year later.
"Alright, I'll handle hiring, payroll. and member fees. Somehow, I'll find us an executive chef and maybe a sous chef, we have a little under half a year to set it all up. It will be a challenge, but I learnt as a child that anything can be solved if you throw enough money at it."
"Still think we can compete with Chaud?"
Anais walked over to the bar. "It isn't competing with Chaud. Swinging is a unique kink, but it is only one kink. All kinks are welcomed here although we promote a kink a month, a 'kink of the month if you will. I have talked it over with Chaud upper management and we have agreed in principle to promote each other's establishments. What have you decided for the liquor selection?"
Joining Anais by the bar, Traci Diana began to go through what she had planned. "I was thinking that our well liquor should already be top shelf, but we could have what in other places would be an ultra-top shelf, available for purchase because we do not want to be robbed blind. So as an example our well rum could be Bumbu XO, and we could have Kiss Monstrum and a few of the Dictador Two Masters selection at a higher price."
Anais nodded as she asked another question. "What do you suggest for wells?"
Traci Diana began to list the brands she decided on for their well liquor. In most other establishments they would be call liquor if not top shelf. Their targeted clientele was the upper middle-class couple with either no kids, or whose kids had left the nest.
Anais nodded at the list Traci Diana recited. They were all good brands, top brands but it could be argued there were some brands better and would be calling for Hennessy, Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, Glenlivet, among others. "And the distributor can supply all these?"
"They guarantee it."
"What about beer?"
"I have decided to go off the beaten path and stay away from the so called big three, you know who I mean. We will carry craft beer and a few of what those in the industry call legends. I figure if we carry beer the average beer drinker cannot get anywhere else, that will keep them coming back."
Anais was not a beer drinker, so would not know any brands so did not ask Traci Diana for examples. "How did you come up with these lists, for wells and higher shelf so to speak as well as the craft beer idea?"
Traci Diana laughed before she replied. "Google and my friends. I started by googling, so I knew what brands to ask about then I saw or called friends who drank that spirit and picked their brains. This is the result."
Traci Diana knew a lot of people both in the city and around the state of Florida whom she had partied with. In the past she would decide to hop on a bus and travel to Miami or Tampa just to go to a club. She thought nothing of crashing on someone's couch for a night or two in a strange town. That was how she ended up here.
"Let's head into the kitchen and see what we are working with."
As they approached the kitchen Anais noticed something that surprised her. "Why would someone put a movable wall in a kitchen? Get rid of this; we'll make our food and kitchen staff a showcase...when we have one."
The remainder of the kitchen seemed to be in good condition. All the stainless-steel equipment could use a good cleaning. She saw a grill and a large flat surface that seemed to be a cooking instrument in a line and several tables behind them in another line. There were several sinks around the area, on the cooking line alone there were three hand sinks. On the back wall of the kitchen there were three large deep sinks as well as another three hand sinks. There were lowboys for food storage and shelves for Anais assumed pans or plates. A low wall separated the kitchen from what would be the dining area. A built-in shelf was on the dining room side.
"Everything seems to be in order but then again I don't know what I am looking for." Anais said a mental "help me" to the universe for her chef to show up.
The pair exited the kitchen returning to the main area between the kitchen and the stage where sex shows or demonstrations would be performed.
"What about the eye hooks and platforms around the room and along the walls we discussed before I went to Orlando?"
"I have a guy coming in a few minutes to set all that up, he called to say he was held up at another job but is on the way."
Anais nodded as she started to walk to the back of the room where a hallway led to the bathrooms and locker rooms.
"What about the locker rooms?"
"They are finished, we expanded into some storage area."
"What was kept there?"
Traci Diana shrugged. "Beats me, it was empty."
The entrance to the locker rooms was through the bathrooms, the female having two more stalls than the male which had two urinals instead. In both bathrooms two of the stalls were not enclosed for the more daring members. The locker room consisted of numerous rows of steel cabinets benches in front each of them. There were a few different sizes of locker available.
Anais nodded as she looked around, she poked her head into the showers. It was a large room with several shower heads. She could imagine more fun and games occurring in the showers as both locker rooms led to this one shower room.
"Are you ready for a wine Anais? I know I am."
"Sure."
Together they walked back the way they came towards the front of the club. Maisha and Kim were finishing up with the boxes of adult toys.
