Someone beat you to it.
I worked in a nondescript office building just off I95 in Boca Raton, FL back around 1986. When the restaurant lon the first floor went belly up, it was replaced with "Le Club Mistique" - an exclusive dining establishment that was selling "memberships". They tried to go upscale by calling themselves a "nightclub", but it was just a restaurant.
You guessed it - pre-opening memberships at a discount, with a caution that members were not to let others who were not legit guests in, as such people would be milling about trying to get entry. They thought they if they acted like one of those "A listers only" places, that people would bite.
The only food they ever served were the munchies at a pre-opening sales event.
Were those "all day suckers" lollipops that they served?