Did anyone see the second episode of this show last night?
It featured the president and CEO of Hooters of America, who went undercover at several restaurants in Texas and a manufacturing plant in Georgia. At one point, he and a couple of the waitresses from one of the Dallas restaurants stood on a street corner to hand out boneless chicken wings to promote the restaurant. While doing so, several people said that they would never visit the restaurant because they think it degrades women. He looked like this was news to him. I found that totally unbelievable. How could he not be aware that people have a problem with their business model? Either he was lying or he was willfully ignorant.
(And BTW, the promo at the beginning called it “America’s number one show.” Well, duh, if you’ve only run one episode, and that was right after the Superbowl, of course it’s going to have really good ratings.)
I saw the promos for the second ep last night and had a question. How does this show work?
I assume the CEO is disguising himself (or herself) as a new employee. How do they explain the cameras? And why the hell would that manager last night do something so disgusting (humiliating the waitresses like that) if he knew there were cameras there to catch it? Even if he had no idea his CEO was in the room, he’d have to know that the incident would eventually end up on TV at some point, just because of the cameras.
I had never heard of this show until last night (as Amazing Race is the only reality show I have ever really watched) but when AR finished, I stuck around.
It was simply a mollyfocking hour-long commercial for Hooters, and anyone who thinks that the company is going to make any substantial, lasting changes based on this so-called reality show is as deluded as the guy who actaully believes his Hooters waitress really thinks his little jokes about her “hott biscuts” are clever…
This is not something I would normally say, but I think that Hooters (a business I have never set foot in) actaully owes me a couple of beers for sitting thru this heaping helping of horseshit. (and of course, YES, I already know that I could of/should of turned off the goddam TV)
I watched both episodes. The WM guy seemed like a decent chap. I could see how he’d become a CEO through his people skills and willingness to make tough decisions.
The Hooters guy seemed like a little prick and if he drives the company into the ground it will be fine with me. Now, if he had fired the Reindeer games jerk on the spot, then’d I’d be watching next week. Giving him a stern talking to and then saying he’d change his ways - ugh.
The show feeds into the whole Powerball winner, instant millionaire mentality that is so prevelent today.
Do you have any basis for saying any of this? I got that the guy was really concerned with modernizing what his father created.
At least give him credit for wanting to protect his cover. He went out immediately (?) and called the owner of the franchise to tell him that he had a problem with that manager. Plus, at the follow-up board meeting, it seemed apparent that firing him on the spot could have legal ramifications.
Having said all this, one of the most embarrassing moments of my life was when I had to meet a client at Hooters (his choice) for lunch. Beer ‘n’ wings ‘n’ scantily dressed waitresses - not really what you want for a professional atmosphere.