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.
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.
When I lived near one I would get the wings delivered by Doordash. I liked them though they cost more than they were worth
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.
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.
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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 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
Hooters is good. People are far to sensitive.
Don’t like it? Don’t go.
I don’t know where this info is from, but there’s been a Hooters open in Nottingham, UK for 25 years…
