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A BOTTLE girl has claimed she can make £800 in just one night thanks to a special routine that she has.

Kat Busch, 22, says her job can come with a sizeable six-figure salary, allowing her to live a flash jet-set lifestyle.

Her income has meant she has paid for her degree and travelled the world and allowed her to “change her life”.

The Texan was just 17 when she first started working as a server at a high-end sushi restaurant but switched to work in bottle service – the sale of alcohol by the bottle in nightclubs.

While bottle girls are often only paid $2 an hour, the huge tips mean she can often make more in a weekend than some people do in their full-time jobs.

She claims she can now rake in around £800 a night.

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Kat told the Daily Star: "You can make upwards of $1,000 consistently at night, sometimes $500 on the lower end.

"I think it's a great career and especially for people in college trying to get out of debt.

“I literally paid for my entire degree with serving and bottle service because I was able to have that flexibility of just working weekends and was still able to go to school during the week but also make enough money that it's like some people in a 40-hour week.”

Kat added that the most she has made in one night was just over $2,000 (£1,600) and that was in a five-hour shift.

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She said she had gained the nickname “Killer Kat” by her managers due to her “amazing service” and been handed tips as large as $1,200 (£962).

Thanks to her job, she was able to pay for her Computer Information Systems degree upfront, which cost $36,000 (£28,900) as well as travel the world.

She coughed up to take her mum to France and Italy for her 50th birthday which cost a couple of thousand dollars.

Kat has also travelled all over the US – Atlanta, New York, Chicago with each one costing a couple of thousand dollars as well.

However, Kat revealed that to make the really big bucks in bottle service, you have to “put in the time to dedicate to your craft”.

She said that many people in the nightlife industry simply “half-ass” it, while they show up and look nice, she said they were just “order takers”

But she did say that appearance was a big part of the role and more important than simply serving.

Kat told the news outlet: "I would always make sure that I took a shower, I did my hair, whether that's straightening, curling it, putting extensions in, making sure I do a full glam makeup."

She added it was also “really important” to make sure bottle girls were “well-groomed” – wearing lipstick, eye shadow and fake eyelashes.

Kat said: "You shave, you pluck your eyebrows, whatever you'd like to do, brush your teeth and then also make sure the small things like make sure your nails are done.

"If people are buying a thousand-dollar bottle of champagne, they don't want your nails to be all raggedy and gross, they want you to look nice.

"It's really about presenting an amazing experience and also looking good is going to help you.

"You're gonna only make more tips if you put in time to your appearance."

The appearance of bottle girls though has led to some misconceptions about them, Kat said.

One false stereotype was that they are dumb and stupid with Kat saying many of them have college degrees and just choose to do the job because of the money they can make.

Kat has now started to help other women launch their own careers as bottle girls by giving out tips and advice on her TikTok and Instagram pages and has even launched her own Nightlife Hustle University to teach others how to become a VIP bottle girl or bartender.

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She said that girls don’t have to be “pretty” to do the job, adding that anyone can polish themselves so that they look like “bottle girl material”.

Last year a bottle girl in a posh London club revealed the typical comments she hears when she’s working.

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