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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

“It’s kind of sad,” he said. “We don’t have a lot here in Charleston”.

a lot of what, teeth? naw i'm kidding, somebody should build these poor bastards a new Hooters.. that one was just wore out..

[–] Delphia 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Seriously, Hooters shit the bed when they didnt see the turndown and decline in business over the sexist nature of their branding.

They could have simply changed the name to not be wordplay about breasts and they probably would have been fine.

[–] Crashumbc 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Most of their food including the wings were just cheap generic garbage.

The chain was built on "sex sells" not food.

[–] son_named_bort 5 points 8 months ago

I would say that the Sheetz gas station that's going to replace this Hooters would be a step up food quality wise.

[–] Delphia 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never said dont have attractive waitresses in tight clothes who are really flirty, just maybe dont have the whole theme of the restaraunt be "Tits"

Theres tons of really average chain restaraunts doing fine with really average food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I mean besides the outfits isn’t that every sports bar. Young good looking women serving in low cut tops.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but a lot of chain restaurants from the time have also done poorly as well. It seems more like that era of restaurant was never capable of serving good food and couldn't compete in the modern marketplace.

[–] Crashumbc 2 points 8 months ago

Adapt or die. It's happened with Mexican chains also. ChiChis, Don Pablo, all gone.

[–] Sweetpeaches69 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe the chain was built on that, but my local Hooters was amazing when I was in highschool. My friends and I would go there exclusively for the 12-15 dollar all you can eat wings on Wednesdays. They were amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I liked the wings. And the sauces. And they had a good fish sandwich. Decent Cobb salad too. there was nothing sexy about the women at the location I went to. The quality did take a turn around 2010 though.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They should replace it with a themed restaurant called "Boobies" decorated with seabirds.

[–] jaybone 4 points 8 months ago

They can show superb owl on the tv.

[–] Cort 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

All the wait staff must wear blue shoes

[–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 8 months ago

Red shoes are also acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Their house special is an ice-cooled hot dog and that dish is called cock-on-the-rocks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They weren't even that skimpy, went there with my fiance like half a year ago and it was just regular tank tops and short shorts that still covered everything as their uniform. Nothing crazy.

I went to a sports cantina called Ojos Locos in Socal and that's what I always imagined hooters to be. Google some pics, it's sorta hard to tell but the waitresses literally wear what's called cheeky underwear as their uniform combined with a skirt that literally doesn't cover anything. At the risk of sounding like a pig some of those waitresses might as well have been wearing thongs because of how thick they were.

Did hooters just used to be skimpier or was it just that prude back in the day?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hooters is great. I don't see why it get so much stick. There plenty of places I think is shit so I just don't go.

But if I want some wings, a beer and to have a causal place that has sport on hooters is great.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you want to see tits then go to a strip club where you can actually see naked tits, and if you want good food go to a restaurant dedicated to making good food. And also, some strip clubs sell food too. Hooters seems like worst of all worlds.

[–] Delphia 11 points 8 months ago

The thing is that your wife wont mind you going to hooters for a few slightly overpriced beers with your workmates, she knows you're going to look at the waitresses but nothings gonna happen. You're going to pay a bit too much for food thats good but not great and definitely not so nice that she is going to be annoyed that she wasnt going too.

Its also not that seedy dive bar near the train line where 2 people were shot over an argument about whose stool that was 3 weeks ago and everything is always sticky.

[–] jaybone 7 points 8 months ago

Place looks like a two bedroom shack.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

wtf is a "strip cheese sandwich" lol ..... oh wait, is it something demeaning towards women? nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

The place is called Hooters ffs. You gonna virtue signal a sandwich?