Yes I have, and yes the waitresses wear tanktops, no skimpier than any other tanktop, except that their breasts are outlined in a pretty garish way. And I’ve eaten in pleanty of restaurants with plenty of hot waitresses and heard some pretty inane flirting and some pretty inane attempts to pretend that that flirting is witty. Hooters takes it to a whole other level. If that’s your thing more power to you. The whole place is pathetic, though.
I still think they should be able to save some puppies and kitties from the gas chamber. College girls flirting for tips pales in comparison to what large corporations do for their money. If they take money from Nabisco or Beatrice or Archer Daniels Midland, they can stand to take money from Hooters.
This question doesn’t have any bearing on the OP whatsoever, but I feel it needs to be asked:
Does anyone really think the Hooter’s uniform is flattering?
First of all, the women wear pantyhose. With orange shorts made out of cheap, middle-school-issue-for-gym-class fabric. Juxtaposed with sneakers and white socks! I don’t think I need to go on.
Secondly: the shorts are an abomination all unto themselves. They do not make the women’s bottoms look cute at all. Perhaps its the pantyhose doing it, I don’t know, but every tush I’ve soon wearing Hooter shorts ends up looking mono-cheeked and unnatural. Imagine your mother’s ass in underalls. This is supposed to be hot?
Thirdly: the tank top is not sexy at all, with that damn owl blazened across it. Cleavage doesn’t really show, and yet it gives none of the sensual mystery that other types of non-cleavage bearing tops do. It just looks cheap, like something you’d pick up on a whim at a souvenir shop in Panama City. Who came up with that idea?
To sum it up, I don’t see how anyone would look at a woman dressed like this with lust in their eyes. Seems to me the waitresses look more like self-parodying marketing devices as opposed to attractive chicken wing-serving flirts.
Thirded, with a resounding hallelujah. The outfit looks ridiculous.
As one who loves him some good porn and strip clubs, Hooters ain’t it. Saying it is just makes it clear that you have no idea what one or the other is.
I also wanted to follow up on the idea that the presence of Hooters has caused a rash of sexualized behavior towards waitresses everywhere. This is almost as stupid an assertion as equating Hooters with porn, strip clubs, bin Laden or NAMBLA.
Now, I’ve been to Hooters exactly once. I think the outfit is really unattractive, and being forced to interrupt my conversation with my friend while a vapid young woman engaged in chit chat with us was very awkward and not something I wanted to repeat. On the other hand, terrorism it ain’t.
I’m a woman, so this opinion doesn’t hold much water, but I don’t even think the Hooters girls around these parts are even a LITTLE BIT hot. I think they’re “Just OK.” Certainly not what I would call a sexually overt draw that will make men leave their wives. The animal people need to take a pill and the offer.
*It is to laff. * Look Honey, :rolleyes: , my Mom worked at coffee shops before you were born, and daily had truck drivers and construction workers hit on her. She also was required to wear a short dress and nylons. Myself, I used to patronize one “family restaurant” where the waitresses had super short skirts, low cut tops, and black fishnet stockings- before I had ever heard of Hooters. So Hooters started nothing.
As to Beefcake, I suppose then you have seen the Outback ad where the three middle-aged women get three hot young male waiters with tight shorts, and the women sigh and are clearly enjoying the view?
I have been to Hooters. The outfits aren’t half as sexy as others I have seen. The waitresses aren’t as flirty as other coffee shops I have been in that specialize in truck drivers and the like. The wings are damn good, I will say that. Other than that- eh.
The waitresses at Hooters aren’t being exploited. If anything, they are exploiting silly men who are thinking with the little head.
Let me backpedal a bit. I did call Hooters a soft-core strip club. That was hyperbole. I take it back. I am aware that they don’t get naked in there, that their skintight tank tops and hotpants stay on at all times.
Basically, it’s a restaurant just like any other except the wait staff are all attractive young women wearing a revealing uniform. Am I right about that?
No, I’ve never been to one. I’ve seen plenty of pictures of their outfits, I’ve seen commercials for the restaurants, I’ve been in hundreds of other restaurants, I’ve been a waitress, I’ve been an attractive young lady, and I’ve worn revealing clothing. For all of you who insist I absolutely can’t understand Hooters unless I’ve been there, will you please do your best to explain to me what I’m missing by not going there?
Also for those of you who insist I can’t understand Hooters unless I’ve been there, I’ll remember you when you post in other threads about other things you personally have never experienced.
Here is the Smoking Gun’s copy of the Hooter’s employee handbook, which is a hoot in itself.
To me as a non-parent, I don’t consider that family-friendly. I don’t think most wives or daughters (who usually comprise slightly more than half of all family members) are actually entertained by other females’ sex appeal, at all. (I wonder if they capitalized ‘look’ because the two 'o’s look like breasts).
Here is the Smoking Gun’s story about a lawsuit filed against Hooters by the former assistant manager of an Alabama Hooters restaurant who says that a “visiting training manager” repeated instructed the waitresses that “If you need the extra money, go ahead and suck a dick or fuck a customer if the money is right.”
I searched for what Hooters corporate management has to say about these allegations, but I wasn’t able to find anything. Can one of you help me out and link to Hooter’s response? They did at least fire the manager who made the accusations.
And yes, ignorance is bliss. That’s why it’s such a popular saying. I’ll bet you can think of some things you’re willing to be ignorant about if you just admit it. Maybe you’re willing to live your whole life without knowing how it feels to give birth or have third-degree burns or to be stung by 100 bees at the same time. Maybe you don’t want to know what exactly is in your hotdog or what exotic sexual practices your parents tried out when their marriage got boring or who your real father is. Maybe you’re content to go to your grave without experiencing mastering a foreign language or differential calculus.
Me, I’m content to live without experiencing Hooters.
And no, I did not say Hooters is equal to Osama bin Laden. I figured most people would understand that Osama bin Laden’s activities were at one end of a scale and that Hooters was at a different point on the scale. My mistake.
“There are currently untrue allegations being made by Jarman Gray, a former employee of a Hooters Franchisee, Alabama Wings, LLC involving his departure from employment with the Hooters Restaurant in Auburn Alabama. Mr. Gray was employed as a cook by the Auburn Hooters location for less than a year before he abandoned his job in February. Alabama Wings disputes the validity of the allegations being made and asserts that Mr. Gray abandoned his position and was not terminated. The alleged comments were made by a visiting employee from the Albany Georgia Hooters location which is owned by the same franchisee. There is no involvement of a “corporate trainer” or anyone from Atlanta-based Hooters of America, Inc. Hooters of America and the company-owned locations in and around the metro Atlanta area are not involved in this matter in any way. Hooters of America, Inc and its franchisees are committed to providing all employees with a harassment free work environment and finds the allegations involved in this matter repulsive. The allegations in no way reflect the proud image of the Hooters concept and they do a disservice to the more than 15,000 women employed world wide as Hooters Girls. Clearly the erroneous language used in the complaint is intended to garner media attention.” *
I will never go to Hooters again, either. And that is because the food SUCKS. I’m unimpressed with it on all levels.
The place is unappealing on the inside
The food blows
Based on the ugly-ass uniforms the girls wear, the management has no idea what “sex appeal” is, and therefore, they’re dumb as a box of rocks.
The girls are not being exploited. In my opinion, most of them are there trying to get a second look! No one stands around on a street corner saying, “hey baby…I’m gonna make you a star! Come work at Hooters! With legs like those, you’re goin’ places!!!” They’re there because they want an average payng waitressing gig.
I notice that somehow :rolleyes: you left out the fact that the 'visiting training manager" (who doesn’t appear to be anyhing of the sort), was female. And, that she made such a statement in a female empowerment manner "*a trainer named Cat told waitresses that they were “the ones with the pussys and you are in control because of that.” * Which, I agree with. Her further statements (if true) were certainly beyond the pale, but it was just one co-workers foul mouthed opinion. Not in any way shape or form an opinion of Hooters of America Inc, which company isn’t even being named as a defendant.
What actually happens in the restaurant, for one. Jesus. You know, I’ve read books. I’ve read hundreds of them. And although I haven’t read it, I’ve seen the cover of The DaVinci Code. By your logic, I know every thing I need to know about the book, and can offer informed criticism of its contents.
The real world doesn’t work that way.
You’re welcome to try.
So what?
So, if one franchise in a nation-wide chain of businesses gets a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against it, that automatically means the entire chain is sexist? Yeah, that’s a reasonable standard. Hey, this lawsuit happened in Alabama! Does that mean all of Alabama is sexist, too?
See, the difference is, I don’t talk about what it’s like to have 3rd degree burns, or be stung to death by bees, or my parents sex life. Things that I do not know about, and have no interest in knowing about, I do not talk about. You should try this some time. It does wonders in helping you not look like a fucking idiot.
That’s fine. In the meantime, shut the fuck up about it.
I think we go that. Just putting them on the same scale is plenty stupid enough to warrant the pointing and laughing you’re getting in this thread.
Regarding whether or not Hooters is “family-friendly”, it is. But even if it wasn’t…so what? Does every place you do business have the Dan Quayle Stamp of Approval on it? I go to plenty of places where it’s inappropriate to bring children. That doesn’t make them globally inappropriate or even remotely a turn-off. Hooters is about as vanilla a place, and as non-issue a concept as I’ve ever seen.
I completely agree with the assessment of Hooters being more about self-parody than actual sex appeal; I mean hell, THE PLACE IS CALLED HOOTERS YET BILLS ITSELF AS A FAMILY RESTAURANT HAW HAW HAW. Even the uniform seems far less about genuine sex appeal and more about a somwhat retro-styled lampoon of wink-wink play innocent “naughtiness”.
But even if it wasn’t, so fucking what? If a genuine stip club wanted to have a show-pussy-to-save-pussies night, and the Animal Services people felt it would alienate their other donors (pretty shitty of those potential donors to decide “Hey, someone I don’t like supports a cause I do like- guess I can’t care about that cause any more!”, but whatever) there’s no reason not to loudly and repeatedly issue a statement about how while Animal Services neither authorises nor encourages T&A fundraisers, they will graciously accept the resulting donations as it’s about the animals, not politics.
