El parking y ponchar - Page 2

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar (Post 80192)

@Elaina: That's correct, although perhaps only in Mexico.

Customers paid for the company of those women ("ficheras") in the bar, and bought a "ficha" (a token). Those women's work ("fichar") would be to sit at customers' tables, drink with them and dance with them, and they would get a commission on the customers' consumption. Since they had to drink all night, waiters helped them cheat by serving alcohol to costumers and non-alcoholic beverages to them as if they contained alcohol as well.

However, the common term for "fichar" here is also as Chileno explained. :)

Originally Posted by chileno (Post 80203)

Understood.

Those women were called "copetineras" in Chile.