I find it funny that the dude who made Hooters made it for himself because he was banned from so many strip clubs that he thought he would make his own version of one. And that because he only cared about himself, it never evolved and was dying until he sold it after declaring bankruptcy last year.

Maybe with the new owners, we will finally get the Femboy Hooters we really want.

I just recently read a piece in which it was noted that the hooters waitresses are great allies to closeted gay boys that get taken to hooters by parents or family to encourage 'normal' heterosexual behavior.

I want expecting that but it was a pretty great aspect of a phenomenon that always seemed very one dimensional and flat to me.

I feel morally obligated to put this into the thread.

Hooters is coming up with a delivery service where the Hooters' girl will come to your house and give you the restaurant experience at home.

They are planning on calling it Knockers.

Is Hooters just an American maid cafe?

What's weird is that over the last few years they've been trying to say it's a family restaurant. They've gone for years as the place a bunch of Bros can go ogle some boons boobs, but now they're trying to pivot. Not gonna happen, just lean into it if you want to make it.

Maybe if the private equity didn't want to be in that business they shouldn't have bought hooters.

Wait until he hears about twin peaks.

Ya'll want weirdo creepy shit?

My Dad made a thing of taking me, a 12 year old boy back in the early 00s, to Hooters, for a while, and would encourage me to oogle the servers.

This is... previously, before this, I was raised extremely prudish and right wing nutjob style Christian.

My Dad just snapped, internally, at some point... alcoholism followed this.

... my parents are still married, for some reason, even though they have clearly hated each other for a very long time.

Now when is someone gonna make femboy hooters a reality

I went to a Hooters once around 2006 or so. Their hottest wing sauce was called "911" and for fun when the waitress came around I pointed to that on the menu and told her that I was deeply offended that Hooters would dare to use our "sacred tragedy" of 9/11 for the name of some wings. She immediately got all bug-eyed and said "oh no no no no no that's not what it means" and ran to get her manager. Manager dude came over and apologized profusely and insisted it was named after the emergency phone number. He comped the whole table's bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates to boot. At that point I was way too embarrassed to admit I was just kidding.

I never ended up using the gift certificates. It helped that Hooter's food sucks.

Hooters is a pretty weird compromise between Moralism and Libertarianism - on one hand the whole point of it is "fat titties" and going there is an almost open admission of wanting to go see fat titties but on the socially acceptable side whilst just going to a strip joint fall on the not socially acceptable side.

In other words, Hooters is kinda like the "no man's land" between the one side and the other in the weird war between Moralism and Libertarianism in America.

I was talked into going once on a high school trip in the early 90s and the waitresses at that location were B cups at most, but clearly picked just for looks. It was entertaining that the guy whose idea it was to go was extremely shy and had the hardest time just talking to the waitress. Wings were ok, but not good enough to ever go again.

More recently on an anniversary trip my wife talked us into going to Salt Life as we had been laughing about the 'slut life' looking stickers we saw back at home. It was the beach version of Hooters.

The tits being visibly there but clothed just adds to the titillation. Makes sense to me. And it's less sketchy than a strip club.

Yeah, I'm an absolute pervert but hooters feels icky to me. Like, I'll gladly mix sluttiness, alcohol, and food. I'd love it if I could get some appetizers at a leather bar. And while strip clubs aren't to my taste, I respect them as honest sex work at least on the part of the strippers and patrons. But hooters is this thin facade. It's a place I associate with people telling themselves they aren't going to a strip club. Whether it's to introduce their son to manhood or to have a night out with the boys. It's not a strip club, but very specifically so.

feels like a different kind of perversion, something along the lines of "I wanna be able to go to a place with my wife and kids where I can also constantly fantasize about other women while pretending not to"

When I graduated from 8th grade (that might be different from yall, but i spent 9 yrs at a k thro 8 grade school) i wanted to go to south st with my school mates. Mom was insistent, that dinner was for me and the fams, but i could pick where we went. I was sour.

I picked hooters on delaware ave, those wonderful big tittied jawns put me up on the table, sang a song to me and there are some silly pictures that exist somewhere..

Anywhoots I forget my point. Yes lets not objectify anyone, but like any big corp or franchise, they have some workers who are great and deserve respect.