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Hooters is a pretty weird compromise between Moralism and Libertarianism - on one hand the whole point of it is "fat titties" and going there is an almost open admission of wanting to go see fat titties but on the socially acceptable side whilst just going to a strip joint fall on the not socially acceptable side.
In other words, Hooters is kinda like the "no man's land" between the one side and the other in the weird war between Moralism and Libertarianism in America.
it's so weird, too, because Hooters was originally founded to make use of a closed down strip club, and they just leaned on that as a gimmick. they hired all the sex workers who had worked at that strip club. but they did all as a joke.
like there's a universe where hooters was founded by a locally owned employee driven co-op to keep the people who depended on that strip club solvent, and did their whole "it's a family joint" as a schtick to maintain their employees' dignities. instead we got buffalo wild wings that degrades their employees' dignities even further than buffalo wild wings by objectifying them entirely and fetishizing the product they sell.
That second part sounds like the plot of an early 2000s raunchy comedy.
I think the popularity of Hooters was because the lie that the stripper is in love with you is more believable at the Hooters.
I find it funny that the dude who made Hooters made it for himself because he was banned from so many strip clubs that he thought he would make his own version of one. And that because he only cared about himself, it never evolved and was dying until he sold it after declaring bankruptcy last year.
Maybe with the new owners, we will finally get the Femboy Hooters we really want.
FWIW,
Hooters, Inc., was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1, 1983, by six Clearwater businessmen: Lynn D. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken Wimmer and Dennis Johnson. The date was an April Fools' Day joke because the original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail.
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My Dad made a thing of taking me, a 12 year old boy back in the early 00s, to Hooters, for a while, and would encourage me to oogle the servers.
... my parents are still married, for some reason, even though they have clearly hated each other for a very long time.
Fucking hell, that's not surprising but fuck it's weird. Sorry your dad did that to you
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Yeah... I... have not had the easiest run at life, but, things have turned around since I ghosted my entire family a few years back.
In fairness there is something about Christians and treating women like shit.
What's weird is that over the last few years they've been trying to say it's a family restaurant. They've gone for years as the place a bunch of Bros can go ogle some ~~boons~~ boobs, but now they're trying to pivot. Not gonna happen, just lean into it if you want to make it.
Maybe if the private equity didn't want to be in that business they shouldn't have bought hooters.
*and gay girlies!
I just recently read a piece in which it was noted that the hooters waitresses are great allies to closeted gay boys that get taken to hooters by parents or family to encourage 'normal' heterosexual behavior.
I want expecting that but it was a pretty great aspect of a phenomenon that always seemed very one dimensional and flat to me.
I feel morally obligated to put this into the thread.
Hooters is coming up with a delivery service where the Hooters' girl will come to your house and give you the restaurant experience at home.
They are planning on calling it Knockers.
I went to a Hooters once around 2006 or so. Their hottest wing sauce was called "911" and for fun when the waitress came around I pointed to that on the menu and told her that I was deeply offended that Hooters would dare to use our "sacred tragedy" of 9/11 for the name of some wings. She immediately got all bug-eyed and said "oh no no no no no that's not what it means" and ran to get her manager. Manager dude came over and apologized profusely and insisted it was named after the emergency phone number. He comped the whole table's bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates to boot. At that point I was way too embarrassed to admit I was just kidding.
I never ended up using the gift certificates. It helped that Hooter's food sucks.
The tits being visibly there but clothed just adds to the titillation. Makes sense to me. And it's less sketchy than a strip club.
Is Hooters just an American maid cafe?
What is a maid cafe? Is it like a Japanese conversation club?
It’s a restaurant where all the servers are women dressed as maids (or whatever the theme is) and act all cutesy. I went to one once just to see what it was like on a trip to Japan and it was an extraordinarily awkward experience.
Weird!