This seems deeply fictional to me: a group of adults appear in a bar. Why would a manager ever contact a matching agency? Maybe the internet has made me too cynical, but the bar for truthiness has fallen rather low.
That seems bizarre, but of course is to imply a certain opportunity and efficacy in the product in a very salacious, shareable fashion.
Okay I suppose that makes sense. I've been with groups where some of the more brash have gone off and covorted in the bathrooms, and when the establishment has a problem it has never been a big deal. I still can't envision managers actually calling the parents on them.
also they might be getting repeated business through this "new" client called grouper and then notice some of those people having sec in the bathroom. It's probably more than a one time thing so they realize it's a business and then don't want to get associated with certain kinds of businesses which the law is really hard on. It's illegal to make profit from or take any more from money made from prostitution so it's in their interest to make sure everything ok and they aren't being turned into some poorman's brothel and don't have to worry about the cops shutting them down next week.
That's because if you guys just show up at the establishment, they have no idea who your "parents" are or where to contact them. If, however, your group arrived there through some arrangement (between grouper and the establishment in this case), they do have a place to complain if you do something they don't approve of.
I am very much aware that people have sex in bathrooms (in restaurants, in bars, on planes). It is actually not a big deal, and one that most establishments treat as a mere nuisance: One restaurant in my area actually had a promotion that hinted that they were open to this.
Filter down to places where you send adults for drinks and the likelihood that anyone is going to treat it as a big deal falls even lower.
THAT is what is unbelievable, your laughable notion that we are sheltered notwithstanding.
and one that most establishments treat as a mere nuisance
I'm skeptical of this... I'm struggling to think of any reasonable bar in my area (i.e. anything below, say, nightclub level) where, if someone caught you having sex in the bathroom, you wouldn't be asked (politely) to take it elsewhere.
I don't think he's saying they wouldn't ask you to leave--especially since they probably found out about by way of a customer complaint. I believe he's just saying that they aren't going to make a big deal about it beyond asking you to leave, i.e. they aren't going to call the cops or issue a trespass warning.
But I still don't get the point being made - which now I re-read it seems to be that complaining to grouper is making a big thing of it.
It seems perfectly logical to me; if you're in a business relationship with someone and they send you a people who go and have sex in the toilet (something you wouldn't necessarily expect to happen) why wouldn't you pass on that they had to be thrown out?
What if the group had gotten drunk and smashed a table?
I spoke to some friends who work in bars about this, out of interest, and their thoughts were that, as an individual, if they caught someone having sex in the toilet they would be quite thrown by it. One guy had actually had it happen to him about 18 months ago and he said that he still tells that story with some regularity.
I think there is quite a margin between complaining "up the chain" and calling the cops (which certainly would be too big a deal).
Since they are startup, I assume they have a pretty close relationship with a lot of the bars they are working with. I wouldn't be surprised if the founders visited the bar and set things up themselves. In this scenario, it's much more likely that word would get back to them about sex in the bathroom.
That seems bizarre, but of course is to imply a certain opportunity and efficacy in the product in a very salacious, shareable fashion.
I don't buy it.