Posted on 06/03/2015 12:02:28 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
The restaurant, named Tallywackers, hires attractive men and serves comfort food including steaks, pizzas, pasta, and hot dogs.
Tallywackers says their restaurant is a “bar, restaurant and entertainment destination for everyone. There is eye-candy — for boys and girls — great food and a really good time.”
Just as the “Hooters” name is a play on a euphemism for women’s breasts, “Tallywackers” is a not-so-subtle nod to men’s genitals.
Owner Rodney Duke told the hosts of the Kidd Kraddick Morning Show last month that “he has pondered for 10 years why there wasn’t a male equivalent of this type of ‘breastaurant’ eatery where women are dressed in skimpy and revealing clothing.”
“I expected to see cute men scantily clad. And so far, I’m not disappointed,” a customer told KDAF on Saturday.
The waiters are fully clothed while serving food, as required by the City of Dallas Health Department. Guests will be able to choose their scantily clad waiter prior to ordering.
“The establishment will be a fun, respectable environment — of course with a little eye candy,” Tallywackers spokesman Winston Lackey told the New York Daily News last month.
The restaurant hired 24 young men to serve cocktails and food. More than 125 people applied for the positions, the restaurant said in a statement.
The restaurant said last month they plan to open another location in Houston.
Further the gay men won't extra-tip the straight waiters as much, the women won't extra-tip the gay waiters as much, and even if the food is superlative, holding a reputation that is sure to keep most families and straight men away removes 80 percent of your potential customer base. You're instantly a niche market, and that niche isn't big enough, nor does that niche have a reputation for trying to pay for it. Women and gay men do not have to flash money to get flirtatious sexual interest. Middle aged businessmen can and do.
That’s the one!
Exactly.
Wow, this is new! A gay restaurant.
The gayest.
SANG Indeed! and who says America hasnt hit the skids?
Id be embarassed to live in the same AREA as a talliwackers. embarrassed that the neighborhood at large had gone straight to hell!
do they expect this to catch on lik MacDonalds Maybe??
as a mascot instead of Ronald MacDonald they can use a guy with a little goatee named Slacker Talliwacker!!
The goatee will be all that's little about him.
I agree it might be bankrupt in 3 years, however if the food is good, sports on tv and let it know that all is welcome, who knows...it might succeed. As I said this morning, we are going to Hooters for dinner before the Stanley Cup game. The Hooters is a block from Amalie Arena.
he looks like a very good match for the purposes!
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