Hooters files for bankruptcy

[pstokely]

Source: ABC 7

NEW YORK -- Hooters - the restaurant chain first known for its orange-clad, all-female wait staff and then its chicken wings - filed for bankruptcy, the company announced Monday. But the decades-old brand said it isn't going anywhere.

In the bankruptcy process, the company plans to sell all of its 100 company-owned restaurants to two franchisee groups that operate Hooters locations in the Tampa, Florida, and Chicago areas. The combined group collectively operates a third of the US franchised-owned locations, according to the press release.

Hooters joins other fast-casual restaurants, such as BurgerFi and Red Lobster, which filed for bankruptcy amid rough business conditions. The company's workforce has also come under fire, with lawsuits ranging from racial discrimination to gender discrimination. Hooters closed dozens of restaurants last year, blaming rising food and labor costs.

The company said it plans to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy in "approximately 90-120 days."

Read more: https://abc7chicago.com/post/hooters-bankruptcy-restaurant-chain-files-chapter-11/16113476/

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aren't breastaurants an outdated concept? did their health plan (if they even offered one) ever cover boob jobs?

[RockRaven]

1. RW idiots will blame wokeness and millennials and Gen Z for this "tragedy"

but I bet if you ask any one of those morons who say that or post such memes on their socials when the last time they went to that chain, the overwhelming majority won't answer honestly (i.e. a long fucking time, if ever).

[pstokely]

2. They thought Hooters was immoral in the 90s

but now they'll blame wokeness for killing an outdated concept with overpriced food

[pstokely]

3. I guess Twin Peaks is still doing OK

around here, they closed the Hooters near Twin Peaks

[Polybius]

12. There's also Tilted Kilt

There used to be one a few miles away from me, but it only lasted like a year.

[cstanleytech]

17. The only time I went to a twin peaks was to try their food and it was also my the last time as their food sucks.

A poorly run McDonald's has better food, that's how bad it was.

[reACTIONary]

4. How does a bresteraunt.....

In an interview with Bloomberg News last week, he said that the turnaround plan includes making the chain more family friendly.

. ..... Become "family friendly"?

[pstokely]

5. they've always had a kids menu

trying to get more business from divorced dads? or the sons of the divorced dads who took them there in the 90s who are now divorced das themselves?

[Skittles]

6. I've eaten there before

it's nothing obscene

[multigraincracker]

10. I wondered how the was.

[Skittles]

11. it's basically just fast food

nothing great but I liked it

[JCMach1]

16. Their thing was great 🍗 wings back in the day

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Actually went a few times in past for that

Wing restaurants are everywhere now.

[Skittles]

18. you know, you are right

I guess they pioneered that trend!

[JCMach1]

19. People forget. The quality was also super good

So it was great wings, quality food and 🧀 y sexploitation.

So takeout wings and onlyfans killed Hooters.

[JCMach1]

20. Ironically i can remember going several times in the 1990's

With the wife to eat wings there.

[Skittles]

21. there was one near where I worked

I even had a "birthday lunch" there once.....I thought the young ladies were delightful. Sure they wore outfits that enhanced their assets but honestly, I see more skin on a summer day out and about than I did there.

[ancianita]

7. Couldn't happen to a lousier franchise.

Don't have the data to back it up, but I'd like to think it wasn't just inflation, but the women's market that made it happen.

[thesquanderer]

22. Seems unsurprising that inflation may cause problems for hooters. (n/t)

[House of Roberts]

8. Never been inside of one, and there's one a couple of miles away.

There's just so many places I'd rather spend my money.

Was it ever a place for bachelor parties?

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

28. Not really for bachelor parties

Maybe a after work beer and dinner or a place to go watch a game. Strip clubs are still the go to stop for bachelor parties in my experience. Though places like Top Golf are growing in popularity for them.

[Tanuki]

34. My favorite bachelor's party story:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/10/27/michigan-bachelor-adopt-stray-puppies/92864692/

"A group of men from Michigan have returned from a bachelor party in Tennessee with a stray dog and her litter of puppies in tow.

Groom-to-be Mitchel Craddock and his friends were on a five-day trip at a cabin in the woods when a stray dog approached their front door, MLive reported. The dog, they named Annie, wolfed down food and water the men gave her.

"We were cooking bacon with the door open. The next thing you know, there's this dog sitting right at the front door. She wouldn't come inside, but she sat right there," said Craddock.

Eventually the men noticed that Annie was producing milk, Craddock said. They found her seven puppies in a den down the road from the cabin.
....
Each of the men took one of the puppies, whom they named Brimmie, Rosie, Daisy, Knox, Gunner, Bear and Finn. Craddock's grandparents took the mother as well as a puppy."....(more)

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. The internet killed Hooters.

[Comrade Citizen]

13. I hope the Women can continue working through this

The restaurant/lounge I moonlight at has been seeing fewer customers, and they are giving smaller tips.

[pstokely]

14. They can make more $ on onlyfans

Without the creepy divorced dads

[Comrade Citizen]

15. OF isn't that lucrative, too much competition

It is a difficult time to be a woman these days.

[republianmushroom]

23. Hooters, going flat.

[LudwigPastorius]

24. Original Breastaurant Nipped In The Bud!

[maxsolomon]

25. On Sunday, the DU-hated NYT had an interesting Op-Ed about

Gay kids being taken to Hooters by their worried Dads and the waitresses being knowing, kind and empathetic to them.

Apparently it's been popular with families for a while. Well, not popular enough...

[marble falls]

26. If only there'd have been a tariff in place.

[Bengus81]

27. Yeah...I remember when they opened the first one in Wichita to the endless bitching of RW

crazed religious fanatics here. Same bitching,same bunch earlier in1987 when the Lottery started. Yeah they just knew the whole State would collapse and go bankrupt as everyone spend their last buck on it.

We still have the Lottery which has given the State over $2B since 1987, but Hooters was gone years ago. Twin Peaks survives.

[jmbar2]

29. Gone tits up, eh...

[Jack Valentino]

36. Heh, good one! lmao

[Frasier Balzov]

30. Sambo's filed for bankruptcy in 1981.

The last restaurant branded as Sambo's didn't change its name until 2020 under pressure following the death of George Floyd.

Arc of the moral universe.

[SharonClark]

31. Good

It’s way past time that creepy sexist concept is retired.

[FakeNoose]

32. I can't remember the last time I was in a Hooters restaurant

It must be at least 30 years ago, maybe more.

[Dulcinea]

33. Hooters is still around? Who knew?

I can't remember the last time I saw one, let alone ate in one.

[valleyrogue]

35. Can't say this news breaks my heart.

It is a vile concept for a restaurant. It reminds me of what many Nevada casinos required their cocktail servers to wear years ago--it was just disgusting to treat these hardworking women that way.

There is no excuse whatsoever of sexing up an establishment.