To everyone who thinks Hooters is pathetic/lame or whatever, you suck. It pisses me off that people have an opinion about anything at all other than the food or service at this place. Who cares what the girls dress like? Why the hell is it pathetic to go there and not a strip club? If you have never been to a Hooters, fine. If you don’t think you would like it, ok great. But why try to make it seem like a bad idea? Who cares if some guys go to stare? I’m a guy. I have a dick. I have news for you: If I see a nice pair of tits at a Denny’s I’ll probably give 'em a good look. I won’t blatantly ogle, but hey, I’m a guy, and thats what guys do. Hooters has great wings. If you want to talk about being a man, then go try to eat 10 nuclear wings. And as for “not seeing the point,” well, Hooters is what us educated folk like to call a RESTAURANT. Thats the point. They are a restaurant, and they have a gimmick. Get over it. Go eat wings, see some cute girls, and have a beer.
dantheman–Are girls in tight shirts that rare where you live that you have to make a special trip to Hooters just to see 'em? Damn, here in Jersey, you can’t shake a stick without hitting some gal in a skin-tight tank top.
Come to Jersey–Where it’s Hooters Hooters Everywhere!
Now aren’t you sorry that you moved away?
“muah! muah! I’m a guy! I can’t stop myself!”
:rolleyes:
Read the link in KellyM’s post and go think about that for a bit. Some of us dislike that sort of “gimmick” on principle. I am one of those people.
GreenBean! You’re the one who brought up the comparison to the nudie bar. I actually do like the food at Hooters.
Besides, I see more hot women in downtown DC on an average day than I ever did in NJ. 
So there, nyah, nyah.
I’m just not one of those people who thinks that ogling is “pathetic.”
My vote is for “delightfully tacky”.
There seems to be enough “theme” restuarants so that everyone can have their choice. So go to Hooters… or not. There’s other places!
Hooters - Wings and jiggly waitresses.
Dicks Last Resort - Rude wait staff and food that won’t make you vomit.
Dennys - C’mon in anytime - we’re cookin’!
Applebees/TGIF/Houlihans/Bennigans - Trendy food and plenty of it. And check out how many buttons/pins/clips I can get on my uniform! Lotsa cool stuff on the walls.
Hard Rock Cafe - Overpriced trendy food and autographs of famous musicians on cool stuff.
and an untold number of places that have their employees sing insipid birthday and anniversary songs.
I don’t think the principle of Hooters is any more insulting to women than a comparable restaurant would be insulting to men. The execution needs work though, in the ways that KellyM points out above.
Nothing wrong with looking at tits while you eat, if you are into that, but might as well make sure that the woman attached to those tits is working under acceptable conditions. Honestly, if you are in charge of an establishment whose working conditions are unfavourably comparable to those of a strip club, you are missing the mark.
I think I see Green Bean’s point. There’s nothing wrong with ogling, but the part that comes up short, IMHO, is going to someplace out of your way, to see barely more than you could see while walking down the street, and a good deal less than you’d see at the beach or a swimming pool.
It just seems that you’re paying (through higher prices, and likely in time and energy) to get a slightly higher concentration of tits to look at than you would get for free anyway.
Yes, actually.
Certainly there are nudie bars that meet your description, but there are many that don’t, and I’ve been to some that were in fact clean, well-lit, and safe. There were perverts and riff-raff among the customers, sure - like I said, I was there. 
But not in a way that you could tell. And I’ve never been in a nude bar where I, as a customer, felt any less safe than I would in a Hooters.
And OpalCat, who used to do nude dancing for a living, can attest that at most such places, there are firm rules to protect the dancers from being harassed. Which, according to KellyM’s link, is not true of all Hooters.
I’d agree that the average Hooters is probably safer than the average nude bar, but the margin’s smaller and blurrier than you imply.
KellyM - thanks for the Toy Yoda link; I’d been wondering how that turned out. I’m glad she won!
The point isn’t whether you’d see more or less; at Hooters, at least there’s the illusion that you’re getting some actual attention. Try getting that from the girl on the street!
But there’s a trade off. There are plenty of places that are very clean and safe - but they’re also extremely expensive, certainly far more than Hooters.
I thought this was about whether Hooters is insulting to women, not whether the food/service is any good.
Funniest damn thing in the world to me, is that they have carry out. And people use it.
Getting back to the OP, I don’t find it insulting in the least. I know quite a few girls who work there, one of which is my future daughter-in-law, and they all have one thing in common. Nobody was holding a gun to their head when they signed on.
They’re doing their job, that they willingly took, for 2 bucks and change an hour, and yes, most of 'em are “working it” for tips. Just like a lot of people, say, post intelligent things on message boards for an ego boost, the girls I’ve known do the same using their bodies. Of course they don’t enjoy the drunken assholes, but those aren’t limited to Hooters.
IMO, it’s a job that these girls take, 'cos they know they can handle it, and the ones that can’t aren’t there very long…I don’t see how admiring a woman can be “insulting” when she’s put herself there to be admired.
I find it difficult to eat at Hooters as it tend to make me masticate excessively.
I dont think its insulting - if the girls want to do it, fine - they’re making an informed decision and surely know they’ll get their share of looks.
I go to Hooter’s occasionally. Great place for wings, beer, etc. plus they generally have a good selection of sports on big screen TVs.
It’s all about the atmosphere - cheap bar food and beer, sports, and nice-looking, friendly women. Hard to argue with that - when the wife goes to her scrapbooking parties and stuff like that, off to Hooter’s we (the guys) go. No big deal.
What we need is a social activist experienced in the gender equality area who has experience in working in fast food and who happens to be a male with man tits, so that he can insist on being hired by Hooters and start a human rights claim against it when it refuses to hire him.
But who has such credentials? 
I’ve been 3 or 4 times and everytime it was with a female co-worker that wanted to go to see what is was like. They were just afraid of going in by themselves.
The food is mediocre at best. I’ve always gotten good service and the waitresses seem friendly enough. That’s more than you can say about a lot of places.