While hanging around magazine racks, I’ve had occasion to glance at a few issues of this publication. Several of the photos are of family groups and waitresses, and are accompanied by excerpts of letters in which kids thank the restaurant and the “girls” for a wonderful birthday party or similar celebration, or for contributing to school-sponsored charity events.
Huevos Rancheros!
What? You mean Hooter’s is NOT a family restaurant with an outdoor theme? (This is what I have been telling my wife for years!)
I dunno. I’m a 33-year old woman, and I think 10 year olds dress like streetwalkers these days. Not all of them, but enough to make me shudder when I venture into the mall.
A couple of years ago I visited the Santa Monica Hooters, mostly to cheer up my ex 'cause he was depressed. I noticed, among the T-shirts for sale, a child-size one that read “Future Hooters Girl.”
I was in the inner harbor in Baltimore and me and a buddy were walking by the Hooters there. Exactly the kind of family you expect was walking out with one daughter around 9. I expressed surprise to my friend and he said “how else is she supposed to develop low self esteem and daddy issues?”
I watched one of the conference championships in a Dallas Hooters last month. Not one person in our five person party said a word about their being kids there. All five of us did a double take when we noticed a pregnant server.
When I was a kid, my mom, brother, and I went to Jacksonville FL for the summer. One of her friend’s crazy husband (Uncle Bob) was watching us while mom and friend went out, and decided that he would take the whole crew to Hooters for some chicken wings, at about 10pm on a Saturday night. I was about 11, so my brother would have been 6, and his two kids were probably 14 and 8. We all thought it was a blast.
Good ol’ Uncle Bob.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
I’ve always wondered…is there a minimum bra size for women that work at Hooters? I ask only for…uh, curiosity…
Nope. The one time I’ve been to a Hooters, which was the original one in Clearwater Beach (and I was taken there by my dad…but I was 21 at the time), we had a waitress who couldn’t have been more than an A cup. I felt ripped off…
I think it is just a matter of changing times. Women in tight shirts and skirts? Big deal. You can sit at your computer and get the nastiest porn imaginable, or go anywhere in public and look at many young women wearing tighter or shorter clothes than the Hooters girls.
Fifteen years ago, these women in short clothes were eye openers. Today, they are just okay, so the Hooters management has to make some kind of change or go out of business…
I used to go to Hooters all the time in High School, not sure if that counts as being a kid. My one friend would drag me there so he could flirt with his favorite skank waitress. A few years later he came out of the closet, leaving me always confused as to why we had to eat so much shitty food at that crap-hole.
You don’t live in CT do you? I had a friend who did the exact same thing; we thought he was in love with a particular Hooters waitress, and it turned out he was gay. Go figure. Musta really liked them chicken wings, I guess.
[Superbad]Do you know how many foods are shaped like dicks?
All the best ones! [/Superbad]
We took our daughter to Hooters when she was about 10 days old to meet all of our friends. Lil elf also celebrated her first birthday at Hooters. 
(Grandma wasn’t sure what to think about that 
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It started out a lil over 7 years ago when a bunch of us coworkers/friends/gamer buds started going to lunch on Hooters for double punch wednesdays. We make each other do that crazy chicken dance if one’s birthday falls on a Wednesday and they’re silly enough to show up Our waitress, as well as the others go crazy over the kids that show up with us on occassion. They think it’s cool when the girls (wives/gf’s/so’s) show up!!
Now, back when we lived in Pittsburgh, it seemed like the Hooters we all seem to know - lotsa men and the girls in the tight shorts n shirts.
I really don’t give this place a second thought. I’ve been to onw I think twice (the same place two times) and mostly focused on the food and beer, not the women. Frankly, I thought it was too expensive.
I do admit, though, the waitresses are generally very, very nice, police and talkative. Or at least they were when I was there 7 years ago. It really ralaxes you and despite their dress code it was very family friendly.
I mean, they were so nice I was much more interested in just talking to them that ogling.
That and this girl did the coolest thing I’ve ever seen: I ordered winga nd she grasped them, one at a time, by the knob on the end and yanked. The bone simply popped out of the meat and all that was left was the good part. I was in frikkin’ love.
I think of Hooters as a touristy spot. It’s location is always in a touristy part of the city so families end up eating there to ensure they get burgers, fries, and wings.
My wife likes Hooters hot wings. She’ll drag me there on occasion. I don’t put up much of a fight. The last time we went she mentioned that our waitress had the biggest boobs of the whole wait staff. I concured.