Clubs, venues and events

What she took in, what the house charged her, and what she left with. Plus what a reclassification would cost.

Every licence, every renewal window, every unannounced inspection you can be held to. Counts down to the filing date, not the expiry.

The ban list the door cannot argue with, the incident record that outlives whoever was working that night, and a retention clock on both.

A test calendar for a licensed house: each worker's weekly specimen and monthly blood-test dates under the work-card name, when each is next due, and the stop-work dates - dates and clear or not clear only.

The section 28 ledger a German operator must keep: each worker's name or alias, registration and counselling certificates, every working day and every payment each way - written the same day, kept two years, then deleted.

An over-21 worker file: which ID was checked, who issued it, who checked it and when, that the worker was 21 or over, and any local work-card filing due - the check record, never a copy of the ID or a date of birth.

A required-notice posting log: the trafficking-hotline notices the state requires, with size, language and spot, set against every restroom and entrance, and a dated monthly check-off.

A door-staff licence board: each security worker's state guard registration and expiry, the 32 hours of skills training in the first six months and the 8 hours every year - dates and hours only.

An entertainer classification self-audit: the facts that decided past dancer-classification cases - control, the club's usual business, the entertainer's own business, house fees and tip-outs - answered, dated and signed.

A per-customer fee worksheet: the nightly door count kept as the daily record, the quarter added up at the rate in force each night, and the 20th it is due - numbers only, never a customer.

A Utah sexually-explicit-business tax worksheet: each day's till split into admission, user fees, food, drink, merchandise and services, the 10% worked out beside ordinary sales tax, and the period's workpapers kept.

An admissions sales tax checker: cover charges and private-dance fees kept apart from other sales, New York's admissions rule applied, and an audit-ready schedule of tax due against tax collected, night by night.

A house-currency reconciliation: vouchers sold, the card surcharge, vouchers cashed out and the posted deduction, reconciled each night against the safe count, with each dancer's own cash-out slip.

An adult-use site distance check: the city's buffer distances, measuring rule and allowed zones, and the measured distance from a candidate site to every protected use, kept as a dated worksheet for the permit file.

A commercial fight-broadcast licence register: each event shown, the licence bought for it and its proof, and the capacity and screens it covers, kept so a piracy demand letter can be answered.

A ticket total-price check: each listing's base price and fees, the total it shows and how prominently, and a dated capture of the checkout.

A harassment policy and yearly training file: each worker's written policy, given in English and Spanish in the first week, and every year's general and supplemental training.

A stage-and-distance conduct file under ABC rule 143.3: each stage's measured height and patron distance, staff and entertainer sign-offs on the conduct rule, and the nightly check, printable for an investigator.

A house-voucher dormancy tracker: every voucher sold and redeemed, balances aged since last use, and the dormant ones listed for the state's unclaimed-property report with the owner letters due.

A Form 8846 worksheet: food and drink tips month by month per employee, the 5.15-an-hour test, 7.65 percent or 1.45 above the wage base, and the printable working for the return.

A Washington ESSB 6105 safety file: staff training every two years, panic-button tests and repairs in every private room, security on duty each open night, and the annual proof packet for L&I.

A liquor-liability renewal pack: server certificates, guard licences, incident history, entertainment schedule, exits and life safety, and loss runs, assembled into one dated submission beside last year's.

A nonresident performer withholding desk for California, Wisconsin and Missouri: running yearly totals per performer, what to hold back before each payment, and every amount's form and due date.

A city admission-tax worksheet for Chicago and Seattle: the door kept apart from the bar night by night, free and reduced entries at the regular price in Seattle, and each period's tax, collected and short.

A monthly tip-report collector: each tipped employee's signed statement marked on time, late, under 20 dollars, missing or incomplete, with IRS due dates moved past weekends and holidays.

A public-performance music licence register: a status for ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR, every licence's dates, fee and room, and every letter, call and visit with an answer-by date.

A California ID-scan rule log under Civil Code 1798.90.1: what each door scanner reads and keeps, the lawful purpose for each use, deletions, and every door staffer's sign-off on the house rule.

A club contractor 1099 file: every payout by kind and method, each contractor's W-9 with the last four digits only, and the year's 1099-NEC boxes 1a, 1b and 1c and 1099-MISC prizes.

A New York administrative-charge notice check under 12 NYCRR 146-2.19: each event charge's notices on the contract, menu and bill read as printed, with type size and a dated copy, and gratuity records kept six years.

A Nevada Live Entertainment Tax worksheet: each night's admission charges apart from VIP extras, documented deductions, and the month's 9 percent tax, collected and short, with every month's due date.

An Illinois live adult entertainment surcharge file for Form LA-1: the nightly door count with repeat checks, monthly ST-1 receipts, and both methods worked per FEIN with the cheaper allowed one named.

A Form 8027 worksheet: the IRS seven-line 10-employee test, lines 1 to 8 from the staff list, and the allocation of tips under 8 percent to each directly tipped employee for W-2 box 8.

A card-surcharge setup file: the acquirer told 30 days before, signs at the door and the till, the rate within Visa's and Mastercard's caps and the cost of acceptance, debit and prepaid left out, and the receipt line.

A Nevada county fee calendar for licensed houses: the house licence and each worker's registration by the quarter, other employees by the year, investigation fees per owner, manager or agent, each with its date and standing.

A manager registration and employee record: the business and every manager's registration with its last good day and apply-by date, and every employee's name, address and date of birth, printable for inspection.

A Georgia adult entertainment state operation assessment worksheet: 1 percent of last year's gross against the 5,000 dollar floor, the books reconciled to the sales-tax returns, and the April 30 date with late penalty and interest.

A dance-fee and tip ledger under DOL Fact Sheet 15: house charges kept apart from tips, each week's tip credit allowed, make-up to the minimum wage, regular rate with the dance share, and overtime.

A California RBS certification tracker: every server's and manager's certificate, the 60-day new-hire deadline, the 30-day exam window and the three-year renewal.

A Texas mixed beverage gross receipts tax worksheet: each night's mixed drinks, ice and mixers, the 6.7%, the 20th it is due, and any late penalty.

A New York yearly sexual-harassment training file: each employee's interactive training, and the policy notice at hire and each training in English and their own language.

A Florida text-promotion consent log: each customer's written consent and wording, every STOP, and each send checked against the hours and the three-a-day limit.

A Washington MAST permit tracker: each server's Class 12 or 13 permit, the 60-day new-hire deadline, the five-year expiry and the upgrade at 21.

An Illinois BASSET certificate tracker: each server's, bartender's, manager's and door checker's certificate, the new-hire window, the ILCC lookup and the renewal.

A California SB 1343 harassment-training file: two hours for supervisors, one for everyone else, every two years, short-term hires within 30 days or 100 hours.

A Texas TABC safe-harbor file: every seller and manager certified within 30 days, the two-year expiry, the policies read, and the violations counted.

Adds up each customer's cash across related visits, starts the 15-day Form 8300 clock past $10,000, keeps the filed copy and the January statement.

Counts each night's cash once per till and keeps every bank deposit whole nights, as taken, so no pattern looks like structuring.

Keeps every I-9's dates, the E-Verify case where the state requires it, reverification, and the day each form may be destroyed.

Checks who is in each night's tip pool against the federal rule and the state's, then splits it by hours to the cent.

Checks every pay stub for the nine items Labor Code 226 requires and that its figures add up before it goes out.

Works out who is covered by Chicago's paid leave ordinance, each worker's Paid Leave and Paid Sick Leave, and the payout on leaving.

Applies the club's own state's paid sick leave rule to every worker's hours and keeps each balance and sick day.

Counts the year's peak headcount nationwide, applies the 40- or 56-hour tier, and keeps each worker's safe and sick time and pay-statement line.

Keeps each server's alcohol permit, works out the state's deadline and expiry, and checks every shift sign-in.

Tracks every bartender's, server's and cook's California food handler card from hire to expiry, paid for by the club.

Tracks each employee's two-hour harassment training, supervisor training on promotion, the ten-year refresher and the emailed notice.

Tracks each employee's Maine harassment training against the required topics, supervisor training and the yearly notice.

Tracks each employee's interactive Delaware harassment training, supervisor training, the two-year retraining and the notice.

Keeps California's written workplace violence prevention plan, the nameless incident log, yearly training and the reviews after incidents.

Shows the club's state dram-shop exposure and keeps every cut-off and service by a nameless tag, the record that defends it.

Keeps every Utah server's and manager's alcohol course, the three-year renewals, and checks every shift sign-in.

Keeps every dancer's and bartender's Clark County work card, its job type and five years, and the location form due in five days.

Florida's admissions tax on cover charges: each night's till split, 6% state plus the county surtax, and the monthly return by the 20th with the allowance.