Posted on 06/24/2006 6:45:36 AM PDT by radar101
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 he calls a grass-roots campaign against Hooters that includes residents and other businesses. Bamberger also is president of the Bernardo Town Center Property Owners Association.
Hooters goes against the family values in the community, he said.
Opponents will soon post signs around Rancho Bernardo that purportedly quote from a Hooters employee handbook: The essence of the Hooters concept is entertainment through female sex appeal, of which the look is a key part. The rest of the sign reads, RB Says No to Hooters.
Besides signs, residents are collecting signatures and statements outside Vons, Bamberger said. They plan to send the dozens of statements of opposition to San Diego city officials in charge of approving a restaurant's permit to operate, and to the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that would approve its liquor license.
Hooters is known for waitresses in form-fitting shorts and tops delivering hot wings and burgers. Its name is slang for female breasts.
Fred Glick, president of Hoot Winc LLC, the partnership that owns and operates 24 other Hooters around the country, including one in Oceanside, said he's not worried about the opposition.
While a small, vocal minority of the population may voice their concerns before we open new locations, those concerns are unfounded and quickly disappear once residents visit the eatery, Glick said.
He added that Bamberger is mischaracterizing Hooters as a tawdry strip joint. Instead, he said, it's a restaurant that's casual and fun. It sells beer and wine only, Glick said, adding that up to $2 million would be spent to retrofit the abandoned, 6,300-square-foot-building that Hooters is scheduled to lease near Interstate 15 and Rancho Bernardo Road.
Still, more than 100 people packed a recent Rancho Bernardo Planning Board meeting to protest the restaurant. Councilman Brian Maienschein opposes it, too. But both the Planning Board and the Rancho Bernardo Community Council declined to take a position because they also heard from residents or businesses that support it.
The extra media attention generated by Bamberger's efforts may actually drive up business, Glick said, adding, Now they have a reason to see what the fuss is all about.
Glick said Bamberger may be opposed to Hooters because it would be next door to Bamberger's development company. Bamberger lost a bid to buy the property for his own expansion efforts, Glick said.
Bamberger said he tried to buy the property three years ago, but that his opposition has absolutely nothing to do with that. Hooters simply doesn't fit Rancho Bernardo, he said.
I would welcome any other business, Bamberger said.
Elena Gaona: (760) 737-7575; elena.gaona@uniontrib.com
The Hooter's girls I've seen never look anything like that...
If it opens and they are against it they can elect not to eat there. If the place fails to get enough business then it will close.
Too good for a Hooters?
It's not the kind of place I hang out in but I hardy find it offensive. I've eaten in a few of them and find the hype a bit better than the food.
That is true... that woman was probably hired for the photoshoot, or like strip clubs, the woman get better looking the bigger the city.
Bamberger is president of Boardwalk Development, which among other ventures manages the shopping center on Bernardo Center Drive that houses Vons and other stores.
Bamberger also is president of the Bernardo Town Center Property Owners Association.
This is an established businessman and property developer trying to eliminate competition.
All the Hooter's girls I've ever seen looked a lot like the girls at the nearby college. They were, I suppose, decorative, but I don't go to restaurants to stare at mammary glands, generally. Eating's always my goal.
These anti-Hooter's campaigns seem so silly to me. Shorts and t-shirts? Just go to any mall. Lots of pretty girls there, and you don't have to buy any food.
See story here (scroll down).
Here is another Recent Hooters story
The "Toy-Yoda" story is about the only interesting story to come out of Hooters. Other than that it's just a place where young women wear a little and guys drink and eat bad food and look at the young women. In Texas we call them "Titty Bar Light". I tell you where they should open one, and that's right in the middle of Baghdad. And fill it up with big, loud American women. Why? It would piss off the moslems. Why piss off the moslems? Why not?
I was getting my hair cut this week and they always have this big TV on in the barber shop (a real barbe shop) and some story came on about some baseball guy calling someone "something" and having to take special classes to become "sensitive". There happened to be a couple of ladies in the barber shop with their little boys (who could care less what we were talking about) waiting to get their hair cut. The TV program wouldn't say what this baseball player had said. I seemed to remember that the baseball player called some sportwriter a "fag". Well, none of the men in the barber shop seemed to be able to say that out loud. Maybe it's because of the women and the little boys. So I said "I think he called him a fag, so what? There is something wrong when men in this country act like they are little girls. I'm not too sure who's idea that was but count me out. Boys should be boys and men should be men". One of the ladies looked at me and gave me a thumbs up.
So, if Hooters wants to build a Titty Bar Light somewhere they are able to buy or lease the land I don't care. Because there is nothing wrong with a guy looking at the female form. I'll be 105 and on my death bed and it's likely I'll do two things before I "go", one is that I'll ask the Lord to forgive all my sins and the second is to ask the nurse to turn around so I can grab her butt right before I leave.
As a side note, Waco, Texas, used to be a closed-down community. Every lawsuit was determined by the lawyers and judges (they all knew each other) before the trial began, with the Waco insider winning. If anyone tried to open a business who wasn't one of the powerful Waco families, they found their property taxes skyrocketing and their property being rezoned to outlaw the proposed business. It used to be very common in Texas for a few families to run every town. Waco's opened up quite a bit in the last ten years. The joke used to be that we were three fancy funerals from breaking loose.
This man is obviously a homosexual!
the yoda link only goes to a picture
I thought that the hamburger I got at Hooters was excellent.
"Hot and populated by people not high-end enough to buy a home in a coastal area."
The median price for single family homes in RB is just about the highest in San Diego County. It is higher than any coastal area in San Diego County other than La Jolla, Coronado and Del Mar. Its higher than PB, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, Point Loma, or Encinitas.
Bamberger sounds like a bigger boob than what will appear at the proposed Hooters.
Considering my DH is a personal trainer and works with women wearing tight fitting outfits it didn't bother him in the least and he saw nothing that made him drool.
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DH is dead husband, right 8 0 )
I figure ordering food to be delivered from Hooters is like going to a bordello to read the magazines.
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What? You never went to a bordello to read magazines? I thought everybody did that.
Lawsuits against Hooters always come in pairs.
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They should have landscaping which includes ornamental pair, uh pear, oh, never mind.
Yes, beauty should be hidden lest man be tempted. Let's get them burkas...
My son used to root for the Hooters car at NASCAR races just because he liked to yell "I love Hooters" in public.
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