MADPLANET — Restaurant in Milwaukee

Security has improved, but they still demonstrated irresponsibility by asking us if their response to a violent individual should be a warning or removal. It should be a standard rule to remove them - violence cannot be tolerated. I will say, the bouncer himself was epic since he listened to all parties involved - and acted fast when alerted. Yet, I still can't fathom any consideration to let a person who committed assault and battery stay - and give them the opportunity for hurting more people. Thanks to my self defense & de-escalation training and the amazing bystanders, I came out ok and the threat to our safety was resolved. They really need to start scanning and documenting IDs, so if someone gets a warning or kicked out, they can't easily come back a couple weeks later and cause trouble again (I saw the same wacko again who came into the bathroom after me, but they luckily kept distance... Really not cool though to be allowed back so soon.).

Original review from 2022: If someone wanders through the dance floor aimlessly & repeatedly, pay attention! If one gropes you (e.g., "accidentally" hits your butt), tell a bouncer... One complaint merely gets them a warning, but two SEPARATE complaints gets them kicked out.

Before I went to the bouncer to report the problem, another girl and her friends complained that "the bouncers don't do anything about it." So I went for help alone and on behalf of the other women...

After the complaint I gave, which the creep saw since I was pointing at them, he and his fellow creep smugly approached us at the bar 15 minutes later... So I had to find the bouncer Again and he explained why he wasn't kicked out yet. I had to bring the bouncer to my friend who was being bothered yet again and since she was "complaint #2" he was finally kicked out, but at this point my night was ruined so I left shortly after.

It is unacceptable that women feel the need to approach other women for protection to create blocks, intentional space, and a collective watch-out for the creeps - and feel like that's all they can get. It is literally the bouncers job to protect patrons and we should feel safe coming here (especially when we're going out of our way to report real problems developing). Next time, I will probably call the police if the bouncer can't keep track of an actual sexual assaulter and they bother me or my friends a 2nd time... Someone needs to hold these people accountable so this stops.

Other than this... and the reasons I come back in spite of this problem occurring more than once... is that the general atmosphere is full of music lovers, entertaining dancing when DJs play fun music, and a sense of community and opportunity to make friends. The themed nights are fun and hearing the whole place sing to my favorite Queen song on one night was one of the best moments I've had there. Crowd is generally young, but some older people seem welcomed in too. The decor is interesting as hell and artwork...

This dive was recommended to me by someone who hadn't been there in years since I asked for a place with dancing. When we got there the bouncer charged us double the cover listed on the board. The bartender seemed halfway decent, but the drinks she poured were weak. I ordered a double mixed drink and didn't even get a buzz. The DJ changed the music every thirty seconds, so even if I had wanted to dance I wouldn't have been able to. The place was full of twenty something weirdos with ratty beards and man buns. When I say full I mean there were like maybe two dozen people there. Then there were the obviously high potheads doused in patchouli playing with hula hoops by the walls. It resembled a middle school dance the way they stood in little groups staring at the lights not talking to each other. To make matters worse when I went to the bathroom to check my eyeliner for all of thirty seconds one of the employees bashed the door open to see what I was doing almost hitting me in the face on my way out. As soon as I left she followed me out. This combined with two large security guards in such a small place only leads me to believe that they have a huge amount of drug dealers/users frequenting this business. All of the great reciews I read were obviously written by employees or friends, because this is one of the sketchiest places I've ever been. Considering I've traveled all over the country that's...

My sister was SA’d while dancing and the security guards LET THE MAN GO OUT AND KEEP DANCING with zero investigation.

On Halloween night while dancing with my sister & mom an inebriated man groped my sister’s breasts and she had to push him off of her, so I followed the man to point him out to one of the security guards. After explaining what happened, the security guard said he’d “keep an eye on him”, then left him to go talk with his coworkers, so the man just went back out onto the dance floor and was not ONCE questioned or investigated. My sister is a survivor of r*pe so she was extremely traumatized and we just ended up leaving to take her home. So disgusted that this type of behavior is just acceptable. It’s too bad because the environment and bartenders at Mad Planet seemed very cool, but our whole night was tainted by the lack of action by their so-called “security guards”.

Also, if my SISTER was the one who was intoxicated it would’ve been “her fault” or she would’ve “been asking for it” because men are never held accountable for their...