Pros
Private clubs are their own ecosystem.
You’re not serving random guests; you’re building relationships with a community of members who return again and again.
That creates:
Familiar faces
Personal connections
A sense of belonging
A shared pride in the property
Even when leadership dynamics get complicated — as some reviews hint — the member community often becomes the anchor.
Cons
This is the part that hurts the most.
Good people — committed, skilled, collaborative people — end up absorbing the dysfunction created above them.
They get labeled as “not aligned,” “not fast enough,” or “not delivering,” when the truth is:
No one can succeed inside a system that leadership refuses to fix.
When senior management protects themselves, everyone else learns to do the same.
Innovation dies.
Honesty disappears.
Turnover spikes.
And the organization becomes a revolving door of burned‑out talent.