We have seen this all before. Sounds like a classic railroad baron land grab. Make someone else's property worhtless then buy it for a song.
Lawsuits against Hooters always come in pairs.
Ping
Reminds me of the clowns around here that petitioned against a car wash near their neighborhood. It wasn't that they had a problem with clean cars, but they really didn't want so many blacks and hispanics near their McMansions.
My liberal co-worker just couldn't see the irony of his position on that.
They just don't want blue collar working types in their neighborhood.
I can see where the locals would want to give Hooters the squeeze. I think it'd be smarter for them to let the owners spend their $2 mil on renovations. Then they could exercise imminent domain to grab the Hooters and suck them dry.
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.
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.
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!
Bamberger sounds like a bigger boob than what will appear at the proposed Hooters.
My son used to root for the Hooters car at NASCAR races just because he liked to yell "I love Hooters" in public.
I just want to know one thing...why is it that we can be so critical of Americans who feel that morality is a good thing? Why do they have to "go with the crowd" on things like this to be accepted. American who opens her hands to all kinds, good and bad, should have some common sense regarding this stupid restaurant. If you have to drive a few extra miles, so be it. I am neither rich nor a snob and wouldn't want that place anywhere near where I live, just as I wouldn't want an abortion clinic, porno shops, red light districts, etc. Yes, I do group them all into one catagory, in varying degrees. A young child should not have bare breasted women within eyeshot. Wake up people.
It is time for men to start acting like men and tell liberal limp wrist to go f* themselves.
Now it's true, under free enterprise, there exists the right to set up shop where one wants, however, municipalities typically have regulatory authority over what businesses located in their jurisdictions and what businesses don't
A business doesn't have the right to get it's proposal approved, and the reason that people choose to live in municipalities is because they often want some authority to exist that says, "We're sorry, you're not going to build that junkyard next to our neighborhood of 3,000 sq ft homes"
For example, if they wanted to build a Hooter's along the main drag in our area, I'd be all for it. The neighborhood has been deteriorating for quite a while, and the only reason that it hasn't become a complete ghetto is because there is valuable property on the waterfront, where affluent people live. I am one of those people. If you opened up a Hooter's in one of the shopping centers, it would do a lot of good, as right now, the closest Hooter's requires you to traverse the interstate in order to make a short trip. Never mind people just south of here who live outside the limits.
Hooter's would bring alot of young white people into this area, and many of these people might just find it's still not as bad as they've heard, and they may buy starter homes here, and so, here, a Hooter's could help stem a white flight problem in neighborhoods clearly designed as working-class. However, if you wanted to build the same resturaunt in the neighborhood we lived in before we moved here, I'd be dead set against it. Of course, in this neighborhood, the average household income is over $100,000. It is also the city's most affluent single area, there are no pawn shops, no title loan outfits, the only "bargain" store is an arts and crafts shop. In this kind of neighborhood, Hooter's would serve to the deteriment of the area, as it would bring in a crowd that would normally not be in the area. Namely, rowdy teenagers from the less well-to-do areas of town.
This is actually an advantage.
It makes it easy to give directions.
"I have a delivery for Bamberger's development company. Where is it?"
We're right next door to Hooter's"
OH! I know where that is !"