Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: It's kind of tricky because the tavern is kind of a way for the rich to get richer.
Firstly, your progress scales by your vit. If your vit is too low, you are probably spending your cash on the wrong things. Buying red potions early on increases your cash flow by increasing the rewards you can get from the tavern (or reducing the cost of doing so) while also making some opponents that rely on pure physical damage rather trivial.
Secondly, spamming endure is not the way to go. It barely gives any money, you are just piling up lust which will slow down your exploration on that day (and eat into your profits that way) and the customer will leave unsatisfied.
So if you are supposed to hit that seduce button, what's the actual strategy? Obviously, the first answer is to always enter first thing in the morning before you accrued any lust damage. Secondly, choosing the correct category. Often times, you will have that peculiar issue of having high addiction stats in some categories while having basically zero in others. Choose that missing category, hammer the seduce button a couple of times, then down a blue potion. Look, you basically turned an unused part of that potion into free money.