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Women have long complained that their faces are often the last thing men look at – and now a scientific study has proved them right. Researchers found that virtually half – 47 per cent – of men first glance at a woman’s chest. A third of the so-called ‘first fixations’ are on the waist and hips, while fewer than 20 per cent look at the face. Not only are breasts often the first thing men look at, they also glance at them for longer than any other body part, the experts discovered. It’s thought that the reason might be evolutionary,...

In these recessionary times, patrons of Hooters are more interested in eying their wallets than scantily clad waitresses, or so it would seem. The Atlanta-based restaurant chain, better known for its buxom waitresses than its cuisine, is joining the gaggle of casual-dining establishments in offering a value-priced menu in the hope of drawing more... umm, clientele. Seeing as the NFL regular season is nearly underway and testosterone is hanging heavy in the air, the new menu features a football theme, says Hooters. It's a seasonal menu for the fall. New menu items start at $4.99 for "Loaded Chips," thick-sliced potato...

LAKE FOREST – Got what it takes to be a Hooter's Girl? If so you might be one of 100 lucky ladies to don the familiar orange shorts and white tank tops. "We're looking for clean-cut girls that are kind of like a cheerleader, a surfer girl and the girl-next-door," said Rick Leukert, the company's chief operating officer. "We want a young lady that you're not afraid of taking home to your parents. We're not a trashy concept. We're a family-based environment, perfectly acceptable to women and children." Leukert defined the cheerleader girl as upbeat and energetic, the surfer girl...

A former Holly High School music teacher accused of having sex with two students was sentenced to jail Wednesday and barred from most unsupervised contact with minors. Ranee Sue Proper hugged supporters before facing Oakland Circuit Judge Edward Sosnick, who sentenced her to five years probation, with the first nine months of that in Oakland County Jail. The judge also ordered her to participate in sex offender treatment and not to have any unsupervised contact with minors under 18 other than her own children and relatives’ children.

A Texas man has reportedly settled a class action lawsuit against Hooters for refusing to hire men as food servers. Nikolai Grushevski filed a complaint against Hooters of America in January alleging its Corpus Christi franchisee would not hire him as a waiter because the position was being limited to females by an employer "who merely wishes to exploit female sexuality as a marketing tool to attract customers and insure profitability." Hooters argued a “bona-fide occupational qualification” defense, which applies when the “essence of the business operation would be undermined if the business eliminated its discriminatory policy,” according to Onpointnews.com....

WALTON COUNTY, Ga. -- Loganville police said they arrested a man after he entered the automobile of two female waitresses from Hooters. Police said Christopher Childers, 40, saw the two 19-year-old girls walk into a Wal-Mart to do some shopping. While they were in the store, Childers allegedly got into their car. Police said Childers found pictures of the girls in their uniforms which he placed in his truck. He then got back into the girls’ car to wait for them, police said. When the girls returned, one girl slammed Childers leg with the car door and the other called...

A candidate for Sunrise City Commission chose an unusual venue for a campaign fund-raiser this week: a Hooters Restaurant. The chain is known more for its suggestive name and provocatively attired female servers — and, aficionados say, chicken wings — than for politics. "They're a nice, family, law-abiding establishment," said James DePelisi. "What makes Hooters unusual compared to another establishment?" Sarah Brown and Ann Zucker, two Broward Democratic leaders, said they'd never heard of a candidate fund-raiser at Hooters.

A pleasant diversion.

CORPUS CHRISTI — A Corpus Christi man has filed a lawsuit against Hooters accusing the restaurant chain of gender discrimination for not hiring him as a food server. The lawsuit is an attempt to reopen an issue that was settled 11 years ago in a class action that ended in an agreement that established that the chain’s signature Hooters Girls could continue to be the restaurants’ only food servers. Nikolai Grushevski’s suit recognizes this earlier agreement, disputes it and invites other men to join him in seeking another class action. He asserts in the suit that when he applied to...

Some desperate men with a dream to serve hot wings and wear short-shorts are suing the people behind Hooters -- because the man-haven wouldn't hire the dudes as waitresses!

John Daly has been suspended for six months by the PGA Tour for conduct that brought unwelcome publicity, including a night in a North Carolina jail to sober up. “Is it fair that I got suspended? It’s not fair in reality, but it’s probably fair in perception,” he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. This is the second time the tour has suspended the two-time major champion, along with at least two other times he agreed to take time off to get his life in order. The 42-year-old Daly called this the lowest point in his wild 18-year career.

A Gastonia man faces charges after police say he grabbed a restaurant waitress on the rear end Wednesday evening. The reported incident happened at the Hooters restaurant, in the 3700 block of East Franklin Boulevard in Gastonia. Barry Dean Parker, 39, of Gastonia, has been charged with sexual battery and carrying a concealed weapon, according to Gaston County authorities. The Gaston Gazette is reporting, based on a court report, that the weapon was a bayonet. Police say Parker was ordered to leave the Hooters on Wednesday. They say that on the way out, he grabbed a waitress, a woman from...

Doutzen Kroes and other models posed for US underwear giant Victoria’s Secret new holiday ad campaign and Santa should be very happy.

When you hear the words "Hooters," "John Daly" and "extremely intoxicated" in the same sentence, you know where this story is going. In the latest chapter of Daly's longtime struggle with alcohol abuse, he was held overnight in a North Carolina jail after passing out at a Hooters restaurant... According to police, Daly "appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative." Daly again refused to go to the hospital and was eventually asked to leave by Hooters employees... Because Daly had no transportation, police said they held him in custody at a local jail until he sobered up.

Golfer John Daly was taken into custody Sunday morning by Winston-Salem police after he was found drunk outside an area Hooters restaurant. Police said in a statement Wednesday that said officers went to the restaurant on a medical call. When they arrived, Daly was being treated by emergency workers after losing consciousness. While at the restaurant, police said Daly "appeared extremely intoxicated and uncooperative," refused repeatedly to be taken to the hospital and was asked to leave the restaurant by several workers.

Cellphones aren’t the only distractions to be banned from Dartmouth roads. A few weeks ago, police officers showed up at the recently opened Hooters Restaurant, on a busy stretch of Main Street. They weren’t there to grab a quick bite to eat but to ask the establishment’s employees to stop shaking their stuff so close to traffic. It seemed some drivers couldn’t help but turn their heads to catch a glimpse of the young women doing jumping jacks on the side of the road, with the result being plenty of honking and even the occasional collision.

Hooters hotties took to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday night, July 8, for a chance to win Miss Hooter’s International. Of the 130 bronzed bodies from all over the world, only one could be most worthy. Sara Hoots, from San Antonio, TX took the crown. The 12th Annual Miss Hooter’s International event wasn’t just a celebration of beauty, but also the 25th anniversary of the first Hooters, which opened in Clearwater, FL in Oct. 1983.

A 5-year-old boy slipped out of the Imagination Station child care center unnoticed Tuesday afternoon, crossed two busy streets and wandered to a restaurant on the Interstate 35E service road in 100-degree heat. Employees of Hooters found the child safe about 5:20 p.m. He left the child care center in the 2300 block of San Jacinto Boulevard, crossed the Interstate 35E northbound service road and Dallas Drive, bought a soft drink at a service station and walked to Hooters, where an employee found him in the parking lot and called police.

This is toooooooooooooooooo funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOBDU

ATLANTA, April 4, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Hooters of America announced that the NCAA has pulled a full page ad promoting the popular restaurant chain and featuring well known College Basketball Analyst Dick Vitale from the Final Four Official Tournament Program. Word of the ad removal reached Hooters Marketing Department late on Thursday when the ad agency that had placed the ad on behalf of Hooters received an e-mail from a representative of National Events Publications, which produces and sells program ads for the NCAA. The ad in question is a Full Page 4 Color image promoting Hooters 25th Anniversary...

** EXCERPT ** If turning 100 doesn't win you the right to celebrate with busty waitresses in tight clothes, Iowa resident John Persinger can't imagine what does. The centenarian rang in his entry into the triple digits at Hooters on Wednesday, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. His late wife Vi wouldn't have objected, since she was a regular with him at Hooters, the infamous chain known for the cleavage it serves up with beer and buffalo wings. ~snip~ The 120-pound World War II veteran and retired diesel mechanic lives alone in a one-bedroom house, according to...

If turning 100 doesn't win you the right to celebrate with busty waitresses in tight clothes, Iowa resident John Persinger can't imagine what does. The centenarian rang in his entry into the triple digits at Hooters on Wednesday, according to a report by The Des Moines Register. His late wife Vi wouldn't have objected, since she was a regular with him at Hooters, the infamous chain known for the cleavage it serves up with beer and buffalo wings. The Register notes that Persinger is one of only a few thousand American men that are 100 or older. "I don't know...

Jay Dow HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBS) ― The racy photos of cops cavorting with Hooters waitresses rocked the Hoboken Police Department. Now, officers face disciplinary charges after a scathing report on their conduct was released. The photos embarrassed and brought unwanted attention to the Hoboken police. Officers of the disbanded SWAT team and their chief are seen in the photos having a ball during Mardi Gras, and with Hooters waitresses during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. Retiring Hoboken patrolman John Camile told CBS 2 HD he's moving on with a bit of a heavy heart. "You feel that weight that people...

Hooters restaurant sign referring to former President Bill Clinton and Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is seen in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina January 16, 2008. REUTERS/Joshua Lott (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)

The man responsible for shooting 2 people at a Knoxville Hooters Restaurant may have been shot at Western Plaza.

2008 Hooter's Calendar and Krispy Creme Calendar are now available. Pour a another cup of coffee indulge in a donut and start oggling...Found under Calendar's.

It's sexy, it's sacrilegious, it's scandalous, and it's just in time for Christmas. LA's hottest art curator Lenora Claire has done it again with a new collection of saucy art pieces guaranteed to get folks hot and bothered. Mixing Christmas themes with ample female breasts...Claire chose not to rest on her laurels of the hugely successful Golden Gals Gone Wild collection of this summer, but instead opted to pump up the volume with a new group of art that's poised to get viewers hot under the collar. We were lucky enough to interview the Los Feliz curator who will present...

WNYW-TV: What you're about to see raises serious questions about the character and reputation of an elite and highly trained part of the police department.

PHOENIX — The mother of a 17-month-old boy found dead after he was left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant was arrested on one felony count of negligent homicide. Police say the woman, Ashly Duchene, 22, left her son in her car when she arrived at the north Phoenix Hooters restaurant where she works at about 10 a.m. Tuesday. When she returned to the car after her shift at nearly 5 p.m., her son was dead. Efforts to revive the boy by witnesses, officers and firefighters were unsuccessful. Police Sgt....

......And now, with the opening of its 435th branch in Beijing, Hooters is now being touted as a barometer for globalization. With the 2008 Summer Olympic Games just 11 months away, Beijing has set about sprucing itself up for the surge of sports fans, media and tourists refurbishing its airport, updating security systems and launching foreigner-friendly restaurants....... ......Although Hooters Beijing is the Alabama-based restaurant's fourth branch in China, this opening is making waves. It was one thing when the first Hooters opened in the more cosmopolitan Shanghai in 2004, but in conservative Beijing, the "Hooters Makes You Happy" mentality feels...

Baristas quit in protest of racy dress code http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_082307WAB_monroe_latte_dress_TP.63094d58.html http://tinyurl.com/2oebjg 10:28 AM PDT on Friday, August 24, 2007 By ROB PIERCY / KING 5 News MONROE, Wash. – Workers at one coffee stand are taking a stand against their new boss. The owner is implementing a dress code – requiring employees to wear skimpy outfits. All the workers have quit. "I make coffee, I don't sell my body, you know?" That's what Barista Amy Klett told her boss at Lola Bean Espresso last week. "He said he was going with a franchise called Cowgirls and that the attire would be...

A trip to Hooters by a group of off-duty police officers has some leaders of an Orange County community upset because their town was left without local police coverage for the night. Several off-duty officers, other law enforcement officials and residents went to the restaurant and sports bar 35 miles away in Franklin, N.J., on Thursday, town of Deerpark officials said. None of the town's 18 officers were on duty that night. Two officers were originally scheduled for the shift, but one was suspended on an unrelated matter and the other was excused from duty because he had asked not...

The e-mail that arrived the other day wasn't the first on the subject. To be honest, it's been more than a year since the original. I meant to check it out, but I got busy. Then it slipped to the back of my mind, where it laid low until someone else's e-mail kicked it to the forefront last week. The latest author reported seeing this sign outside the Hooters restaurant on the Carlisle Pike: "Schoolgirl Thursday Hooters Style. Need we say more?" Yes, she continued, "they do need to say more. For starters, they can explain where they have lost...

March 27, 2007 -- THE folks who run Hooters may be the world's biggest boobs - for kissing off a chance to get Pam Anderson into one of their restaurants. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to book the Hooters on West 56th Street for a private party on April 17 feting "Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir," the new book by PETA honcho Dan Mathews, and planned to serve veggie Buffalo wings. But Hooters suits put the kibosh on the idea on grounds that the organization is too politically charged and controversial.

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports on the NCAA "monitoring room" nerve center, which keeps tabs in real-time on all things NCAA Tournament - including officiating, webcasts, security, and commercials. The monitors are made up of the very top NCAA officers, and have "access to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement at each of the eight first-round sites. They had a 243-page operations manual and an administrative manual labeled 'confidential'".

"Come on," she said, "It'll be fun." Whether it's fun or not we have teenagers in the house so any excuse to get away will have a palliative effect on my disposition. So off we went to Rosa Mexicano for a Saturday morning adult education session entitled: Real Men Cook Mexican. And fun it was. The merriment started when I stepped to the breakfast buffet to discover that one of the attendees, a woman who looked like Mammy Yokum's grandmother, had left her upper plate on the buffet table next to the pitcher of pineapple juice. No thank you. I'm...

TROY, Mich. ) -- A fight to discourage Hooters restaurant from expanding in this well-to-do Detroit suburb by blocking its liquor license has backfired: Now there are two restaurants just two miles apart. Troy, a high-income city of just 80,000 people and home to the state's only Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores, now has another distinction. It is the only non-resort city of its size to have two Hooters. "You come directly off the interstate and that's the first thing you come to," said Wade Fleming, a councilman who voted in June to reject the transfer of...

January 28, 2007 Hooters struggling with startup blues A year after opening, casino is slow to catch on with tourists By Liz Benston Las Vegas Sun The glow from those notorious orange shorts at the year-old Hooters Casino Hotel is struggling to be seen against the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. Founders of the Hooters restaurant chain, where busty "Hooters girls" wearing short-shorts and clingy tank tops serve up chicken wings and cheese fries, opened their first casino last February with great fanfare and press coverage from Montpelier to Manila. But the news isn't all good these days....

An Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy resigned Tuesday after Georgia authorities found nearly $1 million hidden in his car during a routine traffic stop last week. Emmanuel Sanchez, 30, of Alton, has not been arrested but is being investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement because of the way the money was allegedly discovered and concealed. Sanchez told Georgia State Patrol troopers he found the money behind a Hooters restaurant in Atlanta, said spokesman Trooper Larry Schnall. Some of the $950,000, which troopers seized, was discovered within the doors of Sanchez’s truck. Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said Friday he has...

Mob rap in bagel boom   Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals  BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS  My Deli in Staten Island was the target of a firebomb attack in 2001. Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob. The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island. Police had...

TEMPE, Ariz. — The Heart Attack Grill -- a theme restaurant whose specialties include the Quadruple Bypass Burger and Flatliner Fries, cooked in pure lard -- is making health-care professionals' blood pressure rise, and not because of the menu. It is because of the waitresses' naughty nurse uniforms. The waitresses wear skimpy, cleavage-baring outfits, high heels and thigh-high stockings -- a male fantasy that some nursing organizations say is an insult to the profession. Several nurses have complained to the Arizona attorney general's office, and a national nursing group has repeatedly asked Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso to stop...

In the culture war between good and evil, decency and debauchery and class versus crass, a billboard along the Northwest Tollway has flip-flopped. For a few weeks, commuters making the trip from Chicago to the Northwest suburbs were subjected to a crude outdoor advertisement that recycled a risque, old joke. “Liquor in Schaumburg, poker in Vegas,” read the giant can’t-miss-it ad for Hooters, the restaurant chain that has managed to turn a sophomoric slang for women’s breasts into an eatery empire.

A Portland businessman plans to open a Hooters restaurant downtown, bringing the franchise to the state for the first time. Maine is one of only four states that doesn't have a Hooters, a chain known for its hot wings, owl logo and waitresses in snug, brief uniforms. Michael Harris, owner of the Stadium Restaurant at 504 Congress St., e-mailed a long letter to city officials and councilors Wednesday, detailing his yearlong effort to bring a franchise restaurant to his site in Portland.

Maybe I'm the wrong guy for this assignment. And maybe that's because, well, I'm a guy. So, if you're looking for shock, outrage and angry condemnation of London's soon-to-open Hooters restaurant, you won't find it here. Seeking once again to thrust this scribe into compromising circumstances of dubious merit, my editor sent me yesterday to the Radisson Hotel on Wellington Road, where officials with the Hooters Career Fair were meeting applicants for the more than 100 jobs available at the new Hooters Restaurant scheduled to open Oct. 7 on Wharncliffe Road, between Southdale and Commissioners roads. (The job fair continues...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Robert Brooks, the chairman of Hooters of America, Inc. who made his fortune selling chicken wings served by scantily clad waitresses, was found dead at his home Sunday, officials said. He was 69. It was unclear how Brooks died, but the Horry County coroner's office told The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News that an autopsy would be performed Monday. Several calls to the coroner's office by The Associated Press were unanswered. Chris Hardwick, owner of Hardwick Funeral Home of Loris, told the AP he was handling Brooks' funeral arrangements. Since opening its first store in Clearwater, Florida,...

You've probably heard of Hooters -- the restaurant chain known for attracting male customers by hiring waitresses who are well-endowed and dressed to show it.The firm now employs more than 30,000 people. Some would consider this a success story, but our government didn't. Not because Hooters is using sex to sell -- but because its waitresses are -- get ready -- women!"Discrimination!" cried the federal government's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The business of Hooters is food, said the government, and "no physical trait unique to women is required to serve food." EEOC lawyers demanded Hooters produce all its hiring data,...

RANCHO BERNARDO – Developer Ron Bamberger doesn't deny stepping into a Hooters once or twice. Even though he didn't really like the food, that's not the reason he thinks it's a bad idea for the company to open a restaurant in the area. “We're in a high-end, award-winning master-planned community, and Hooters is not consistent with the culture,” he said. Bamberger is president of Boardwalk Development, which among other ventures manages the shopping center on Bernardo Center Drive that houses Vons and other stores. He said that for the good of the community where he does business, he's spearheading what...