Sources, methods and privacy

What counts as a source

A figure appears on this site only if it was read in one of these places:

• a venue's own website, or a bottle menu or table menu that the venue or the resort that runs it publishes itself;
• the price list of a state-run liquor store, published by the state agency;
• a government page: a state alcohol regulator, the Nevada Department of Taxation, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US Department of Labor;
• an employer's own job posting, on its site or its careers portal.

Table-booking services, promoters, price guides, news and blog articles, forums and social posts are not used as sources, even when they rank first for the same questions.

How the facts were collected

All sources were read on November 13, 2026. Each fact was stored once, with the address of the page and the exact words that carry the value. After both checks the store holds 486 records: 450 confirmed, 26 where the source turned out not to print the figure, and 10 where the source could not be opened. Only confirmed records carry numbers on the site.

Comparing a club price with a store price

Where a page sets a club's bottle price next to a state store's price, both are printed prices for the same product. The store price comes from a state agency price list, so it is a public, dated number rather than a sale in one shop. When the club menu does not print the bottle size, the page says so. The multiple shown is our calculation: club price divided by store price, before the fees and taxes the club adds.

When a source prints no figure

Then the page says so and gives no number. This happens often: many clubs ask guests to contact a host for table prices, and some publish no fees. A menu from an earlier year is shown only with its date.

Limits you should know about

• The venues with printed prices are the ones whose menus could be found and opened. They are examples, not a survey of the market.
• Several state store sites refused automated reading, so store prices come from the states whose price lists opened.
• Prices change by night and season. Treat every price as true only for the menu date shown next to it.
• Wage figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics cover broader occupations such as waiters and bartenders, not bottle servers alone.

How the text is checked

Every page goes through two checks. The first compares each figure in the draft with the stored fact and its quoted words, and removes what the quote does not carry. The second is done separately, on the finished page, against the live sources and without access to the stored facts. A page is published only after both.

Corrections

If a figure is wrong or out of date, write to the address on the about page with the page and the line. The source is opened again. If it no longer supports the figure, the figure is corrected or removed on every page that uses it, and the check date changes.

Privacy

The pages are plain files: no cookies, no accounts, no forms and no advertising. Each page loads one small statistics script from Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views; it sets no cookie, stores nothing on the device and keeps the figures aggregated, so the visit needs no consent banner. It is the only file fetched from another company. The hosting service keeps standard technical logs of requests (time, page, internet address, browser type) to run the service and stop abuse. If you email the desk, your message is used only to answer you and fix the point you raised. If this changes, this section changes first. Last reviewed on November 13, 2026.