Hooters has just announced that they are preparing to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy

[Carl in Michigan]

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Hooters — famous for dressing its waitress in tight-fitting T-shirts to sling wings and beer — could be going belly-up.

The casual dining chain is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing as it works with creditors on a plan to restructure its operations, according to Bloomberg News.

The has engaged the law firm Ropes & Gray to assist with the process, individuals familiar with the discussions told the outlet.

While no final decision for seeking Chapter 11 protection has been made, a filing could take place within the next two months, the sources said.

Yeah, no surprise that they are going tits-up.

They've been terrible for at least 15 years, maybe 20.

Cool concept early on, but deflated quickly.

Two of them look like dudes

 

[Zincwarrior]

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Hooters — famous for dressing its waitress in tight-fitting T-shirts to sling wings and beer — could be going belly-up.

The casual dining chain is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing as it works with creditors on a plan to restructure its operations, according to Bloomberg News.

The has engaged the law firm Ropes & Gray to assist with the process, individuals familiar with the discussions told the outlet.

While no final decision for seeking Chapter 11 protection has been made, a filing could take place within the next two months, the sources said.

Yeah, no surprise that they are going tits-up.

They've been terrible for at least 15 years, maybe 20.

Cool concept early on, but deflated quickly.

Where will young MAGAs go on their first date?

 

[Crepitus]

Where are the cops going to go to eat now?

Dunkin doughnuts.

DUH

 

[fncceo]

Two of them look like dudes

Stop trying to turn me on.

 

[ozro]

When a business can't make money with titties and beer, I suspect a problem with management.

 

[TheInfiniteSadness]

Does anyone know if they're auctioning off the woman waitresses at the bankruptcy sale? I need a girlfriend.

 

[initforme]

hooters deterred more young men than it brought in even in it's infant stages. Exploitation is bad business. Any man that went there was in a sense abnormal.

 

[hondo 50]

Does anyone know if they're auctioning off the woman waitresses at the bankruptcy sale? I need a girlfriend.

Mortimer is also looking for a GF.

 

[hondo 50]

MSN

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Hooters — famous for dressing its waitress in tight-fitting T-shirts to sling wings and beer — could be going belly-up.

The casual dining chain is preparing for a potential bankruptcy filing as it works with creditors on a plan to restructure its operations, according to Bloomberg News.

The has engaged the law firm Ropes & Gray to assist with the process, individuals familiar with the discussions told the outlet.

While no final decision for seeking Chapter 11 protection has been made, a filing could take place within the next two months, the sources said.

Yeah, no surprise that they are going tits-up.

They've been terrible for at least 15 years, maybe 20.

Cool concept early on, but deflated quickly.

Well, at least we know that pic is real.

 

[lg325]

The original owner and his wife had a nasty divorce where she had control of it all except the franchise owned ones. She had a lot of them closed and bulldozed and sold the property. She gave the franchise owners a hard time and even took them to court so she maybe the cause of its demise. I have been to two of them and I saw no difference between them and most bars who served food.. The name Hooters is the mascot name for the original owner's college. Their mascot was an Owl. The food not bad they made a huge really tasty beef sandwich and the girls although cute were not all that pleasant.

 

[citygator]

Mediocre food and dated atmosphere is what is killing Hooters.

 

[DGS49]

There is an anti-discrimination law that has never been passed, but is fully in force - for better or worse. You cannot discriminate among women based on physical attractiveness.

It started with airline stewardesses. To say you were dating a stewardess in the 60's and into the '70's, it was a big fucking deal. Then the airlines were told that they couldn't really put these stews out to pasture when they were no longer young and attractive, and they couldn't continue demanding that new applicants be "hot," and it became a sick joke to even talking about dating a stewardess. They would just as likely be - let's say - NOT attractive as otherwise. And of course they started hiring largely gay stewards, which threw that whole paradigm into a ditch.

Around the same time, HS cheerleading went through a similar transition. The cheerleaders had always been the cutest, most popular girls in the school, but the parents of chubby girls who had paid for dance, ballet, and gymnastics classes for ten years began screaming in School Board meetings that their little darlings should not be excluded just because they were homely and relatively fat. Now that paradigm is dead.

Hooters was a part of that same mind-set, created when it was still OK to only hire cute and/or sexy girls, and the girls themselves considered it an honor to be hired into jobs that were typified by the Playboy Bunny. There were "key clubs" around the country who hired little dumplings for men to flirt with and cop the occasional feel, and everyone was cool with it but the girls and women who were excluded simply because they didn't fit the profile.

Hooters servers have been a sick joke for at least 20 years, with most of them being the opposite of cute and/or sexy. It's a miracle that Hooters has survived this long.

Perhaps the more important question is, if the clientele were happy with the original concept and would still be today, and if there would be no problem hiring cute and sexy girls to work there today, why can Hooters not exist today in its original form?

Political correctness run amok.

Remember, there is still no LAW prohibiting discrimination on the basis of physical attractiveness.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

When a business can't make money with titties and beer, I suspect a problem with management.

Motto of BIzzSkule Gradchewits: "It's Not a Job; It's a Position"

Mike Royko wrote a column lambasting the poor service provided by conceited Diploma Dumbos who majored in Hotel and Restaurant Management.

 

[lg325]

Since the start of civilization there has always been establishment where scantly clad girls served food and drink to those who entered.

 

[Jarlaxle]

There is an anti-discrimination law that has never been passed, but is fully in force - for better or worse. You cannot discriminate among women based on physical attractiveness.

It started with airline stewardesses. To say you were dating a stewardess in the 60's and into the '70's, it was a big fucking deal. Then the airlines were told that they couldn't really put these stews out to pasture when they were no longer young and attractive, and they couldn't continue demanding that new applicants be "hot," and it became a sick joke to even talking about dating a stewardess. They would just as likely be - let's say - NOT attractive as otherwise. And of course they started hiring largely gay stewards, which threw that whole paradigm into a ditch.

Around the same time, HS cheerleading went through a similar transition. The cheerleaders had always been the cutest, most popular girls in the school, but the parents of chubby girls who had paid for dance, ballet, and gymnastics classes for ten years began screaming in School Board meetings that their little darlings should not be excluded just because they were homely and relatively fat. Now that paradigm is dead.

Hooters was a part of that same mind-set, created when it was still OK to only hire cute and/or sexy girls, and the girls themselves considered it an honor to be hired into jobs that were typified by the Playboy Bunny. There were "key clubs" around the country who hired little dumplings for men to flirt with and cop the occasional feel, and everyone was cool with it but the girls and women who were excluded simply because they didn't fit the profile.

Hooters servers have been a sick joke for at least 20 years, with most of them being the opposite of cute and/or sexy. It's a miracle that Hooters has survived this long.

Perhaps the more important question is, if the clientele were happy with the original concept and would still be today, and if there would be no problem hiring cute and sexy girls to work there today, why can Hooters not exist today in its original form?

Political correctness run amok.

Remember, there is still no LAW prohibiting discrimination on the basis of physical attractiveness.

I question whether you have ever been to a Hooters. I have, and the waitresses were all quite attractive.

Motto of BIzzSkule Gradchewits: "It's Not a Job; It's a Position"

Mike Royko wrote a column lambasting the poor service provided by conceited Diploma Dumbos who majored in Hotel and Restaurant Management.

You need a prefrontal.