I can see your point but it wasn’t that I found nothing appealing about the scantily clad women. Some of them were just stunning and I can recognize that, even as a hetero female.
It was the blatant sexual overtones, the draping of the breasts, the leaning over the table, the “Oops…I dropped a fork let me bend over showing my ass ever so slowly as I pick it back up”, etc.
I have no issue with the scantily clad part. I, personally, wouldn’t do it as I would find it beneath my dignity level, but more power to somebody if they can work there and enjoy it. I could never.
I don’t have a problem with Hooters, but I don’t go there. If my guy wants to go there with his friends, fine, if he wants to go to a strip club with his friends, that’s fine as well. I don’t care to go along.
I think a lot of women are uncomfortable with it because they don’t want to be compared to these girls. I danced for 7 years and I still don’t want to go to strip clubs for that very reason. Maybe it’s the fact that I did work there so long that I wouldn’t be able to go in without wanting to get up there and prove myself. Ugh. That industry will fuck with your head.
Dan, I don’t think Aries was saying that her dignity kept her from looking at women dressed like that, but rather that her dignity kept her from dressing like that herself, even though she could pull it off.
At any rate, I’ve never been to a Hooters. I don’t have anything against the chain or its concept, but their major selling points–sports on the tv, greasy food, and skimpy outfits–just don’t do anything to attract me. Everybody’s always said that the food is mediocre at best, so why bother?
Dr.J is a pretty hard-core foodie and would never actively seek out food he knows is mediocre at best (unless he’s craving some McDonald’s or something.) The only reason for him to suggest going to a Hooters, then, would be to stare at the waitresses. If he wants to see some T&A, he can go rent some porn, or go to one of the numerous strip joints in town, or go to the nudie car wash over by the clinic. That’s all fine with me, but him taking me somewhere I probably won’t enjoy just so he can stare at half-dressed women isn’t fine.
True story. About a decade ago, the Atlanta downtown strip clubs decided to go after the lunchtime crowd. So they started offering steak lunches – and we’re talking T-bones here – for free, or for like $3 or $5 if you’d just go into one of their clubs and watch the nekkid girls dance. I obliged, and got some pretty good steak lunches. I put some dollar bills in some garters, too, while I was at it. I got to watch naked women dance for about the same price as a regular steak lunch anywhere else.
The clubs stopped when they figured out that no one who had enough money to go to a strip club for lunch was gonna be able to spend much time their at lunch every day – not and still have a job. But it was fun while it lasted, and it sure beat anything Hooters ever did.
Single guy checking in, loves scantily-clad women, loves hot wings and greasy bar food.
And I can’t stand Hooters. I don’t care how little the waitresses wear, I think the food is horribly mediocre.
Also, I honestly don’t like how the girls always sit down at the table and make small talk with you. (This happens every time I go, probably because I’d usually go with a bunch of guys from work, and we’d usually be wearing suits.) I know these girls would never talk to me in real life on the street, or in a class, or at a bar, and they’d probably roll their eyes if I dared approach them. So they can drop the act and not pretend to flirt with me at lunch. I’m going to leave them 20% regardless, and they don’t have to patronize me for it.
It sounds very creepy. It’s like some kind of magical quasi strip club for people who are afraid of actual strip clubs or for strippers who think it doesn’t count if nobody sees their actual nipples.
I think people should be forced to decide whether they like the food or the girls. I think would be very degrading to get half undressed for people who can’t decide whether they’re there to see you or the fish sandwich.
It is the perfect place (imho) to go after work for some wings and beer. It has a fun atmosphere. I do not go a lot, but serveral times I have been there I notice family with children, guys with girlfriends and the like. A couple of times I have seen little league kids brought in after a game. It is nowhere near the level of a strip club. I’ve never had the waitress sit down and small talk either. They are friendly and pleasant, but I have not encountered or seen anything I feel to be “inappropriate” or annoying.
All though if I did encounter some of the behavior mentioned above, I probably would not go to a Hooters restaurant.
I’ve been to Hooters about half-a-dozen times. The first time I was there, a couple Little League coaches and some parents had brought the team (maybe 10 to 12 years old) to the restaurant. And it was one of the boy’s birthday. The waitresses made the boy and some of his teammates stand in the middle of the restaurant and do the Hokey Pokey with them. The birthday boy was very embarrassed; I really felt for him on that one. At that age, girls still had cooties and being see with one was a threat to one’s toughness.
I’ve only had one waitress “show off the goods” with myself and my friends when we’ve gone. None of the waitresses has ever sat and talked to us (except for one, but she was a friend and former coworker of mine from dorms). I agree that the food ain’t that great. All of the stuff I get there I can get at the same price at a better quality from other local restaurants. The atmosphere is interesting, but I’ve found service to be lacking.
Actually, what I meant was that both Hooters and your basic gentleman’s club feature sexy women and mediocre food.
Now, I can get mediocre food lots of places, and at very reasonable prices. Therefore, the only reason I would wish to eat at Hooters would be the sexy women.
However, if I wish to see sexy women, I can easily do so at any number of sports bars, gentleman’s clubs, or strip bars.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see a whole lot of point in satisfying two biological urges at once. I wanna eat, I can go to a good restaurant. I wanna stare at women’s tits, I can go to a good (clean, non-threatening) strip club.
…and both of these places perform their functions better than Hooters does.
The source of my attitude stems partly from the mediocre food, and partly from the fact that most of the people who seem to eat there (at least at the one near MY house) seem to be teenage boys… and guys who ACT like teenage boys.
Guys who can’t get into strip clubs, and guys who seem to be jerks.
I mean, if I want a woman to put her tits on my head, I can think of lots of better places to do it…
Actually, what I meant was that both Hooters and your basic gentleman’s club feature sexy women and mediocre food.
Now, I can get mediocre food lots of places, and at very reasonable prices. Therefore, the only reason I would wish to eat at Hooters would be the sexy women.
However, if I wish to see sexy women, I can easily do so at any number of sports bars, gentleman’s clubs, or strip bars.
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see a whole lot of point in satisfying two biological urges at once. I wanna eat, I can go to a good restaurant. I wanna stare at women’s tits, I can go to a good (clean, non-threatening) strip club.
…and both of these places perform their functions better than Hooters does.
The source of my attitude stems partly from the mediocre food, and partly from the fact that most of the people who seem to eat there (at least at the one near MY house) seem to be teenage boys… and guys who ACT like teenage boys.
Guys who can’t get into strip clubs, and guys who seem to be jerks.
I mean, if I want a woman to put her tits on my head, I can think of lots of better places to do it…
Hooters is rather a lame idea, IMHO. I should make “Nutts and Butts”, only men serving wearing tight, ugly neon yellow jogging shorts and they gotta be studly.
Lame.
That pretty much sums up my feelings. Around here, the advertising seems to focus on “The Fabulous Hooters Girls” more than anything else. Hooters also seems to sponsor a lot of contests, with prizes consisting of “Hooters’ Famous Hot Wings”. Since I’m not a fan of hot wings, and frankly I don’t really WANT to fraternize with the Hooters waitresses (I’m sure that they’re perfectly nice women, I just don’t get excited thinking about them) if that’s gonna be a prize/incentive.
I actively avoid sports on TV, and won’t go to a place where that’s ALL they show. In fact, I’ve quit going to several local restaurants for that very reason. I get quite enough sports on TV at HOME, thank you. Generally it doesn’t bother me too much because I can go in my room and watch my own TV or work on the computer or play on my PS2. Not an option in a restaurant!
The three of us have gone as a family, and my husband and I have gone as a couple. He likes the wings, I usually find a sandwich that I can tolerate. We’ve never had overly friendly servers and, frankly, if we had one who decided to flirt with my husband, he’d be teased mercilessly after we left.
I take it at face value - a so-so restaurant that uses scantily clad women to draw in lonely guys. Certainly not something I’m going to lose sleep over. <shrug>
I go to Hooters probably 6 or 7 times a year.
The food is OK, but by no means great. The girls are nice to look at.
I went again last night, there were couples, women by themselves, and families. While I was there one family showed up with two children about 2-3 years old. The girls went nuts over the 2 year old boy. Picked him up and passed him around. That little guy got more action than any other male in the place.
Hooters is no better or worse than any one of a number of chain restrauants, I don’t see what the deal is.
