I dont understand. I thought that was the selling point of hooters. Thats like being offended by a strip club requiring you to strip while working?
The only time I ever considered going to a Hooter’s was when I was dating a lesbian. It hits different when your partner also likes boobs as much as you lol.
Also, shit food and beer pretending to not be fell out of fashion. See TGI Fridays, Chili’s, Outback, etc. None of them are doing well even though they were killing it in the 90’s and 2Ks.
Brazil itself if keeping Outback lights on. They fucking love it.
You used to be able to say you were going to hooters for the wings, it was still. fucking lie but it was plausible.
When I lived near one I would get the wings delivered by Doordash. I liked them though they cost more than they were worth
Growing up and never going there I always thought Hooters waitresses were topless. When I found out they weren’t, the whole thing actually sounded more pervy to me.
Strip clubs seem less demeaning to me lol. Hooters is basically if you took sexual harassment in the workplace and made it your gimmick.
Yeah, pretty much it’s “let’s train people to think of waitresses as sex objects and stare at their tits”
Sexualized workplaces are perfectly acceptable if basic rules of consent are followed.
The problem with Hooters, regardless of things like the innate exploitation of capitalist systems and tip based services, is that we all know neither managers or customers were all that down with consent.
Down with regular Hooters.
Up with Femboy Hooters.
I’m partial to AroAce Shoney’s, myself.
My mind drifted towards those posts about equality in fantasy armour, with either everyone slutty, or everyone covered with an inordinate amount of steel plate.
This leads inescapably to an image of a Shoney’s staffed entirely with metal clad medieval knights of indeterminate gender.
the only thing i know about hooters is the episode of saved by the bell the college years were they all worked at skeeters, which was so obviously just a parody of hooters without the chance of being sued
The only problem I have with places like that is that they make me feel incredibly insecure about my own body. I’m not campaigning for a boycott or anything, but I really wish there was more diversity in the kinds of women they hired instead of reinforcing the current beauty standard by only hiring women who fit within it.
I’ve never been to a hooters though, so maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about.
CIS male, been to a hooter once or twice with work friends who insisted their hot chicken sandwiches/wings are good. I didn’t really like that style (Buffalo style hot sauce isn’t for me, as I grew up on stuff like Scotch Bonnet peppers and fin Buffalo mostly vinegary than hot or flavorful), and I’ve never felt comfortable ogling staff that has to put up with my bullshit(or lack thereof).
It’s just an uncomfortable restaurant.
7% over 4 years is really fucking good?
most restaurants dont last a year, including franchises.
Negative growth leads to more stagflation… Its only snowballed since the article was written in 2016.
Hooters is an artifact of the 1960s‐1970s sexual revolution, before which we had very few opportunities to see bodies other than those we married or were related to. Hence we had the R-rated movie golden age in which naked boobs appeared at least once in a 90s minute run, And two or three peek-a-boo flashes of different boobs was good value. Hence the breast-count included in Joe-Bob Briggs’ drive-in cinema reviews.
So boomers and their parents (greatests?) got way more buzz from busty, tightly-clad waitresses serving greasy food than us younguns. Even I (GenX) had pirated Playboy channel before USENET supplied me with all the human specimens I could ever want. As a young adult I didn’t get the point, and post #MeToo, with awareness that Hooters is as exploitative as the rest of the hospitality industry with wait staff, it’s just super creepy.
So Hooters may just be going the way of the printed newspaper and the video cassette recorder. It once fulfilled a need that is better provided for, and now only has a niche audience.
And now Gen Z comes along and demands that both men and women be allowed to wear skimpy clothes
lmao hooters with femboys
where
Why are these femboys all furries?!
It’s e621, which is just for furries
Oh ok, that makes a lot of sense then. Thanks.
