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The Rise and Fall of the Hooters Restaurant [link to video]
youtube ^ | 10-09-22 | Weird History Food

Posted on 10/21/2022 6:46:17 AM PDT by FLNittany

From the 13 minute video:

"Weird History is going to get some wings at the Hooters restaurant. While many people may be turned off by the idea of a restaurant called Hooters, the history of Hooters is actually full of weird facts that may make even those most resistant willing to give it a chance.

Founded on April Fool’s Day in 1983, the original “restaurant” has expanded into several different business ventures: the brand sells merchandise and a yearly calendar, boasts a Las Vegas casino hotel, and hosts a yearly swimsuit pageant."


TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: beer; hooters; hotgirls; wings
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Interesting story. It seems the 6 founders in Clearwater were smart to sell out.

I'm actually shocked to find out there are still 300 locations. I assumed they'd been replaced with places like Twin Peaks and Tilted Kilt - which seem to employ only off duty strippers. I think there's still a Hooters down in West Palm. I do like their wing sauce and would like their wings if they'd just cook them a little longer.

Back in the day it was a treat to go to Hooters - for many reasons of course. The one in Jupiter had the cutest local girls that just wanted to work hard and make good money.


1 posted on 10/21/2022 6:46:17 AM PDT by FLNittany
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To: FLNittany

That picture is a real “Hoot”. ROTFL.


2 posted on 10/21/2022 6:49:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Veto Beto, FJB.)
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To: FLNittany
I always wanted to start a "Cooters" where the waitresses were all in their 40s.

At Hooters the girls are friendly and flirty but old guys know they have no chance.

At "Cooters" there's a chance.

3 posted on 10/21/2022 6:51:50 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: FLNittany

Twin Peaks is a more-rustic version of Hooters….flannel and fur-topped boots.


4 posted on 10/21/2022 6:52:23 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: TangoLimaSierra

You could call it Cougars!


5 posted on 10/21/2022 6:53:12 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: FLNittany

Women are beautiful.


6 posted on 10/21/2022 6:53:38 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

It exists, and is called “Waffle House”...you’re welcome. :)


7 posted on 10/21/2022 6:54:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Mad TV - Hooters "Cowgirl Night"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgry-FG81Y

Cougars would be a step way up.

8 posted on 10/21/2022 6:55:30 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Incredible how conservative their dress is from the perspective of 2022. Wow.


9 posted on 10/21/2022 6:55:39 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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10 posted on 10/21/2022 6:56:03 AM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: FLNittany

The one near me in SoCal recently closed.

My husband knew not to ask me to go there, even though his niece worked at one and she said it paid her way through college.


11 posted on 10/21/2022 6:56:36 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Women are beautiful”

The one in post #1 holding the sign.......not so much


12 posted on 10/21/2022 6:58:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: FLNittany

Still 304 locations in the U.S. The location in my area is still doing well.


13 posted on 10/21/2022 6:58:58 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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That's good to hear. The location in West Palm has been there for a long time. Heidi Mark was a WPB Hooters girl and was on the cover of Playboy. Very attractive woman!


14 posted on 10/21/2022 7:02:20 AM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

You do know a thick wallet helps with the young girls? Bob Kraft just snagged him a youngin.

At the Cooters, old men don’t want the granny and the grannies don’t want to be care givers to the old men. lol


15 posted on 10/21/2022 7:07:20 AM PDT by dforest
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To: FLNittany

I’m a woman. I love being a woman. And yes how we present ourselves makes the world a little bit nicer.

I think that’s a woman holding the sign. Why would you ever go out in public looking like that???? Seriously, to have so little respect for yourself. Great photo...made me🤣


16 posted on 10/21/2022 7:07:52 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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Scrape away all the misjudgments by management, perhaps they expanded into areas that were unwise, like the Airline, but the real reason Hooters went into decline is political correctness.

Men suing because they didn’t get jobs as a Hooters Waitress and ugly feminists who wished they were getting leered at have all contributed to the decline.

It’s now nearly a criminal act to leer at a hot woman in orange shorts and tank top.

I used to travel for business to Tampa nearly every week back in the 80s, I’ve been to the original Hooters many times, the first Hooters outside of the Tampa area is still in operation in Jacksonville which I’ve also been to countless times.


17 posted on 10/21/2022 7:07:59 AM PDT by srmanuel (C)
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We had a Hooters in my town. My wife was a public school teacher. The last time we went into Hooters we were waited on by one of her former students, and they spent the whole time catching up and I spent the whole time staring at my wings and beer...

We never went back, and Covid killed the restaurant.


18 posted on 10/21/2022 7:14:59 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Wouldn’t you call it “Droopers”?


19 posted on 10/21/2022 7:15:36 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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To: RinaseaofDs
"Incredible how conservative their dress is from the perspective of 2022. Wow."

Excellent point!

20 posted on 10/21/2022 7:20:27 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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