Hooters - known for its scantily-clad waitresses - is preparing to file for bankruptcy, becoming the latest American restaurant chain facing financial problems.
The US arm of the chain is preparing to restructure through Chapter 11 in the coming months, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg News this morning.
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I could care less, I've never been in one.
Been in one. Never been back. The food is crap and the "waitresses" have the attitude of hookers.
ReplyDeleteShocked it lasted this long.
ReplyDeleteI used to go occasionally. Food is ok but sometimes the view was excellent.
ReplyDeleteHad lunch with a friend at the local one August last year.. Place was pretty full with customers then
JD
i'm right near the original, it was good way back when it started...the cutesie saying on their menu " warm beer, lousy food" became a reality, throw in fat or butt ugly waitresses and overcharge the dupes and eventually you'll fail...fukkem
ReplyDeleteBack in the 1960s I had a friend who had a key to the Playboy's clubs thanks to his wealthy father. Living in NJ we made a number of visits to the Manhattan club. The place was pretty fancy, the babes were hot and the bouncers allowed no shit. The whole vibe was paradise according to the standards of a few 20-something horny guys, but it was mostly bullshit. I've never been to a Hooters but I'm thinking it's sort of a working man's Playboy club and like the playboy clubs be part of history.
ReplyDeleteNever been in one either. Still, it pisses me off because it is just one more that is all part of the plan to collapse the economy. That's what printing money does. And then there was this--
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Another take on this -
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Hooters sucks..
ReplyDeleteTwin Peaks is way better
We had a Twin Peaks for a short time.... It had a good vibe and the food overall was better but it was just too expensive.... It did well while it was a new thing but the prices were it's downfall...
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The Tilted Kilt was decent at the couple of locations I ever went in (both in Illinois, one in Springfield and the other in Rockford) for both the food quality and the eye candy. But they appear to have been a very poorly run operation however, and have closed many locations in the past decade (including those two mentioned), and have really contracted way down to a much smaller operation overall.
DeleteTwin peaks was also fairly decent a few years ago. We had 2 here locally, one of which closed about 5 years ago. The remaining location must be doing ok, since it's still open. I haven't been back there in a long time, last visit probably very early in the COVID bullshit back in 2020. I found their menu to be a bit limited compared to Tilted Kilt. Hooters has been a disappointment for probably the last 15 years, at least at the two we still have here. My last trip to one was probably 7-8 years ago now.
They started closing "non-performing" stores about 18 month ago. They closed the one nearby and it was a blessing. It wasn't even really a Hooters anymore, more like a Ratchits
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Think I've been in one, maybe Nashville? It surely wasn't memorable.
ReplyDeleteBeen in the vestibule of one while a co-worker bought their t-shirts twenty years ago.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel like I've missed anything.
Greasy food, watery beer. The last time I was in one, years ago, the waitress that leaned on my shoulder and called me "sweetie" was 17 years old. Never went back.
ReplyDeleteI drove by a hooters once....
ReplyDeleteI listen to them off the back deck.
DeleteBar Hooters, even.
Who cooks for you?
For some reason, you made me think of "Ridgetop" by Jesse Colin Young with that remark. Good song, even if he is a California style libshit.
DeleteNever have gone to one either and frankly don't believe I have missed anything. Hooters is a relic of a time long gone.
ReplyDeleteSorta like with strippers; "Sweetheart, I'm not that desperate or that stupid." (Anymore)
DeleteI met some friends at one a couple of years ago when I moved to Florida. Those guys are there every Wednesday embarrassing themselves and then posting the embarrassment on FB. Cringeworthy, and I never went back. The girls were definitely hot; I will say that.
ReplyDeleteMy theory is that insane college tuition caused the downfall of America's tackiest restaurant chain.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80s and early 90s, kids could still pay for college working minimum wage jobs. So if you were in a college town back then, the local Hooters staff was mostly hard working, intelligent, twenty-something young women working for their STEM degrees and planning their weddings. The ladies were gorgeous, smart, funny, and darn fun. Which kept the house packed with beer swilling dudes. Which won bonuses for the managers and cooks. Which meant the food didn't totally suck (for a Tampa beach bar).
Over the next decade, college tuition outpaced inflation by 20 times. Kids had to have scholarships and/or student loans to get a degree. The Hooters wait staff was no longer young co-eds. The wait staff turned into mostly tired, unpleasant, thirty-something single-moms trying to feed a family. If they spoke to you at all, it was about scumbag baby-daddies, and how they needed money for rent, and similar sob-story bullsh*t. So the wait service was depressing, the managers and illegal-alien cooks weren't paid on time, they all hated Hooters more than we ever could, and the food really, really, really sucked.
I’ve never gotten a good meal in a Hooters Restaurant and I’ve never had a waitress there who should be wearing that skimpy outfit. I haven’t been to one in years now and it comes as no surprise they’re going bankrupt.
ReplyDeleteSex sells, bad, cheap food doesn't, the dupe lasted longer than I expected
ReplyDeleteI have been in them, & I couldn't care less.
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Tom Mabe Hooters waiter prank. https://youtu.be/-zFK3a2QZaw?feature=shared
ReplyDeleteI won a $200 gift certificate to Hooters on a poker run in Alabama. Ordered 250 bucks worth of chicken wings to go and took them to our annual Halloween party on the Tennessee River. They didn’t last long, but neither did the five kegs of beer. Had more fun on the poker run than at Hooters or the party. Eod1sg Ret
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