Posted on 09/20/2007 7:13:05 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
......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 a little more out of place.
Regardless of its exotic location, walking in to Hooters Beijing feels exactly like walking into any other Hooters location. With the same wooden tables, orange hot pants on the waitresses and that same smell of fried wings wafting through the air, Hooters Beijing could easily be found in America's heartland.
While this chain may seem routine here in the United States, the Hooters phenomenon for most Chinese is a new and exciting import from the West.
"I like Hooters," said one waitress in an interview with ABC News. "It's very happy. It is enthusiastic and energetic. I love Hooters."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Crappy chicken wings and hot beer, should fit right in.
I think the Olympics will be a flop, attendance-wise.
I hope so, too :)
Bless your little heart... Hooters good. Communism bad.
What a happy coincidence. I, too, like and even love happy, enthusiastic and energetic hooters.
“Hooters Makes You Happy”? More grammatically correct when stated, “Hooters Make You Happy”, yo?
I love Hooter too!
lol good luck trying to find girls in china with “hooters” i been there 3 times to visit my cousin who works for a british construction company. They are impossible* to find.
Umm.. That should read Hooters.
After all no one can stop at just one.
Yes, but will there be Hooters in abundance there?
Free hooters calendar.
Warning they are nude!
Will they be giving their girls some of those human growth hormones??
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"Them are some nice hooters ya got there!"
Hooters makes me happy.
You have to order their wings “naked”. Even then, I agree they’re not the best in town.
Still, Hooters has pretty good food and I’ve never had “warm beer” there.
Yes, I’m biased.
They make me so happy, It slog though the jungle and across the fertile plains, then climb the highest moundains just to see em
The few that I went to in Dallas had warm beer. SO warm they would serve the pitchers with ice filled in freezer bags.
When I ate the wings, I would always take a napkin to the wings and ring out the excess grease on them.
Yes some of the girls are hot, but than again, I would always end up with the rude lil pigs who thought they were hot.
Maybe that’s just me.
Unless they get serious about tackling the air pollution problem — and they are a long way away from it now, I anticipate a growing groundswell of opinion that will call for moving the Olympics simply because Beijing is too dangerous health-wise.
Every morsel of food, every drop of water is going to have to imported and checked for toxins. The athletes would be crazy to touch a chicken wing at Hooters or anywhere else in the country.
China is a nation-wide toxic waste dump.
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