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.
don’t give me hope. please let it be real
While hilarious, I’m not in love with the oversexualizing of anyone by gross elitists.
As a socialist, if some workers want to create a sexy restaurant, cool.
I’ll only attend femboy hooters if they are unionized
Or Goth Hooters or a combination…
Goth hooters that will spit in my drink
Somehow I never realized that I want a bar with goth staff and a psychobilly band on the stage.
Like I say about fox hunting …maybe the people that like sexualising women so much should step up and be Hooters waitresses.
FWIW,
Hooters, Inc., was incorporated in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1, 1983, by six Clearwater businessmen: Lynn D. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken Wimmer and Dennis Johnson. The date was an April Fools’ Day joke because the original six owners believed that their prospect was going to fail.
Dude, how do you bankrupt boob restaurant? That’s as bad as bankrupting a casino
The food sucked and people stopped being quite as sexist to wanna go in the first place.
The current US President bankrupt 3 casinos. So there’s obviously a draw for it.
Oh someone once told me it was because some states didn’t issue licenses for strip clubs so this was the best thing they could get away with and it just took off (even without taking it off 🫣). But it was probably a made up story then.
The new owners are some of the older franchise owners. It is going back to the old ways.
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.
In fairness there is something about Christians and treating women like shit.
Oh there’s a lot more than just something.
Well, the book explicitly says that women are less than men, so they are just doing what the good book says.
That book says a lot of things, almost always conflicting things and depending on what remake you read it has an entirely different spin.
Anyone who says they understand the bible and doesn’t know Aramaic, Hebrew and some other archaic languages is lying and most likely trying to mislead you. Although to be fair, even if they do know those languages they are probably trying to mislead you.
Fucking hell, that’s not surprising but fuck it’s weird. Sorry your dad did that to you
I appreciate the well wishes.
Yeah… I… have not had the easiest run at life, but, things have turned around since I ghosted my entire family a few years back.
Y’all
Yao + all
I wonder if your dad just wanted to get out and you were an excuse.
tho, extreme christian - maybe he was trying to make you straight via exposure
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 think I read this article too. It makes sense in a way.
What explains the connection between Hooters waitresses and young gay men? Perhaps these women — so often stigmatized as almost sex workers, so accustomed to society’s sidelong glances — see kindred spirits in the boys who aren’t quite “right.” Or maybe it’s simpler: a waitress’s knack for reading a room, turned tender for those who need it most.
That’s it! Thanks for digging it up.
That was a great read. Thanks for finding the article!
closeted gay boys that get taken to hooters by parents or family to encourage ‘normal’ heterosexual behavior.
…is that what hooters is for? That makes sense in a sad sort if way
Hooters is for any situation where you’re specifically not going to a strip club. Son ain’t showing enough interest in girls? Hooters. Daughter’s showing too much, but you don’t know how to tell her you support her? Hooters. Night out with your friends, but you don’t want your partner to be mad you went to a strip club? Hooters. Feel like a family dinner that makes the kids feel awkward as fuck? Hooters.
Yeah it’s weird to me too. Like, I can see how for a certain type of person who can’t really easily talk about emotions or other private topics, this can be an attempt to bring their child into adulthood and the world of expressing interest in women. But also, fuck it’s a weird way to do it. Just sit the kid down or go for a walk or drive and give them a dating talk.
is that what hooters is for?
It’s not for people that like good food.
It’s not what is for, but it’s how it’s used. /I/kieron155 found the link to the article:
Totally agree those women are not flat
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 this true?
Good on you for asking these questions in a timeline that absolutely justifies them.
Is Craigslist still a thing?
Because if it is, I’m sure you can find someone who will make it true for you.
I would absolutely not want someone I’d found on Craigslist in my house.
Maybe Eroticreview.com?
Not that I would know personally, but I have seen them advertise in magazines found out in the woods.
If it were it would be a sexual predator’s dream come true.
Oh, sweet innocent child.
Google ‘adult escorts near me’
You can find all sorts of companionship if you’re willing to steal mommy’s credit card.
Do escorts and prostitutes normally take Credit Card?
Call and find out.
Sure, what’s the number?
It’s really too bad you don’t own some sort of device that connects to the internet.
Or maybe you can’t figure out how to get past the controls Mommy put on it.
If your mother doesn’t want to checking out escorts, I’ll acede to her aurthority over you
Don’t they have guards who accompany them?
Purely anecdotal.
So, the fat hillbilly looking guy goes to a sleazy motel and orders a girl.
When the girl gets there he refuses to pay and refuses to let her leave.
She calls her pimp. He shows up in a fancy car with two buddies.
Except the hillbilly has a dozen friends waiting in the next room. They get the gun and the car and drive back to the pimp’s place and clean it out.
The moral to your story is not to allow attractive women, or any women, to go to guests they don’t know in motels.
(/s)
Rentboys have entered the chat…
They’ve probably entered other things, too…
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.
Is Hooters just an American maid cafe?
Yes but without maids
Or the cafe part.
Well, I guess they have dessert so there’s technically some overlap of what a cafe would have, but I don’t associate hot wings with cafe.
Dude yes it absolutely is
What is a maid cafe? Is it like a Japanese conversation club?
It’s a restaurant where all the servers are women dressed as maids (or whatever the theme is) and act all cutesy. I went to one once just to see what it was like on a trip to Japan and it was an extraordinarily awkward experience.
Weird!
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.
Isn’t that the point of the original post though? Why is titillation needed during dinner?
Needed? I don’t think anyone said it was needed. People just enjoy tits
The point of the post was that it’s weird to find Hooters titillating at all. Let’s not act like titillation itself is a bad thing or needs to be segregated from other parts of your life. Titillation during dinner is a great mix!
So far, yours is the only comment that really addresses this correctly. I never liked Hooters, but it makes sense. It’s not some enigma or malformed idea.
You said tit…illation.
How do you titillate an ocelot?
Late, but a lot.
Oscillate its tit a lot
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.
There was a place near me called Smut N Eggs. Was a bar that catered to graveyard shift, we’d swing there after work at 6 in the morning to kickstart our “evening”. Inside where you would expect to see sports games on the TVs around the bar, they had vintage porn playing. The walls were covered with centerfolds.
The waitress, Michelle or Chele for short, was about 50 years old, had a smokers rasp and the look of someone who’d spent most of her younger years riding on a motorcyle, and suffered absolutely no bullshit. The food was amazing, the vast majority of people weren’t even looking at the screens, they were just digging into their dinner or breakfast at 6 in the morning with a beer or three on the side.
Place burned down years ago…damned shame.
I’m rather upset your comment was so short because I was completely enthralled in your story.
Now when is someone gonna make femboy hooters a reality
Be the change you want to see
IDK if they even made the virtual one a reality yet.
Wait until he hears about twin peaks.
Or tilted kilt
damn good coffee, and hot
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.
it’s so weird, too, because Hooters was originally founded to make use of a closed down strip club, and they just leaned on that as a gimmick. they hired all the sex workers who had worked at that strip club. but they did all as a joke.
like there’s a universe where hooters was founded by a locally owned employee driven co-op to keep the people who depended on that strip club solvent, and did their whole “it’s a family joint” as a schtick to maintain their employees’ dignities. instead we got buffalo wild wings that degrades their employees’ dignities even further than buffalo wild wings by objectifying them entirely and fetishizing the product they sell.
That second part sounds like the plot of an early 2000s raunchy comedy.
i was thinking that. like an adam sandler movie but where the writer is actually conscious of that teh objectification of women is wrong and also that sex workers will still need work once sex work no longer is viable, and that they possess skills that make them effective in other jobs
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.
guy whose idea it was to go was extremely shy and had the hardest time just talking
100% you were taken there for emotional support
I think the popularity of Hooters was because the lie that the stripper is in love with you is more believable at the Hooters.
I’ve just spent a solid half an hour in this comment section…
For the wings, of course
Not the thighs and breasts?
I’m more of a pork butt man.
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”
