SVreX
SuperDork
2/16/11 7:37 a.m.
In my hometown, Hooters just closed.
I live in Redneck Mecca. How can that be?
I guess when everyone stopped building stuff, it left all those gentlemanly construction folks with no money left to buy the opportunity to grab some really big wings they'd like to roll around with back at their trailers.
Delightfully tacky, yet unrefined.
I'm kidding, but it's kind of serious. If a town like mine can't support a Hooters, things are really bad. It's kind of a benchmark. Even Little League teams here go to Hooters for their after game celebrations.
The Harley Davidson dealership next door to it also closed.
When the liquor store closes, that's it.
I was pretty surprised when the McDonald's down the street from my office closed a couple weeks ago.
The only Hooters I've been in around Richmond, VA is in the fashionable West End, but I wouldn't choose to take my family there because it's one of the few restaurants in the area where I've witnessed drunken f**ktard rednecks cussing, arguing, and getting ready to fight over something really stupid. Granted, it isn't as bad as another place a friend and I were at that we snatched up our beers a second before two swinging rednecks crashed through and knocked our table over. Hooters girls are nice and all, but what they really need are big, ugly bouncers. The behavior is much better in the strip clubs I've been in where they take their bouncers seriously.
pinchvalve wrote:
When the liquor store closes, that's it.
When we had our record snowfall the last few weeks, the liqour store closest to us had their parking lot plowed before the gas stations did!
SVreX
SuperDork
2/16/11 8:55 a.m.
1988RedT2 wrote:
The only Hooters I've been in around Richmond, VA is in the fashionable West End, but I wouldn't choose to take my family there because it's one of the few restaurants in the area where I've witnessed drunken f**ktard rednecks cussing, arguing, and getting ready to fight over something really stupid. Granted, it isn't as bad as another place a friend and I were at that we snatched up our beers a second before two swinging rednecks crashed through and knocked our table over. Hooters girls are nice and all, but what they really need are big, ugly bouncers. The behavior is much better in the strip clubs I've been in where they take their bouncers seriously.
I didn't say I take my family there! I don't go either, I just said here in Redneck Nirvana this particular type of establishment should find it's opportunity to thrive!
Kramer
HalfDork
2/16/11 8:58 a.m.
SVreX wrote:
In my hometown, Hooters just closed.
What happened? Were sales sagging? Did the business go flat?
Jay
SuperDork
2/16/11 9:12 a.m.
They found out most of the employees had been inflating their... uh...
Y'know what? I was going to make a reference to embezzling from the business and have it be a tidy little double-entendre with getting implants, but there's really no way at all to make a subtle boob joke. Forget it. I think y'all can get the idea.
the business model was a bust.
i still can't believe it went belly-up.
SVreX, it's cause for concern. When a humble wing joint with scantily clad women can't survive...I think you have a right to be concerned.
Best Hooter's I've been to? Tampa FLA.
Is there a lot of construction in the town? Those guys are flat starving right now. They've gone from doing jobs in the double digits to struggling to get a job a month.
To 1988RedT2 - If you want good wings...go to Mojo's downtown. I live in the Rivah City myself. That place always gets my business when it's time to consume wings.
Hooters sucks. The food is horrible.
mtn
SuperDork
2/16/11 10:11 a.m.
93EXCivic wrote:
Hooters sucks. The food is horrible.
Better wings than BWW, for this guy who doesn't particularly care for wings.
93EXCivic wrote:
mtn wrote:
93EXCivic wrote:
Hooters sucks. The food is horrible.
Better wings than BWW, for this guy who doesn't particularly care for wings.
You are crazy.
Agreed.
Wings should not be breaded, and their sauce sucks.
BWW sucks, too, but more-so because of their tiny sized wings and prices. Their execution is pretty decent for a chain though.
Comapny's been hanging on by a thread for a long time, rumors of it being sold last year. Chapter 8 is only a short time away.
Kramer
HalfDork
2/16/11 11:22 a.m.
93EXCivic wrote:
mtn wrote:
93EXCivic wrote:
Hooters sucks. The food is horrible.
Better wings than BWW, for this guy who doesn't particularly care for wings.
You are crazy.
Additional on the crazy. Hooter's wings suck. So does the rest of their food. BWW's wings are much better (although not necessarily the best I've ever had).
BWW is nothing special and overpriced but it still beats Hooter's
mndsm
SuperDork
2/16/11 11:58 a.m.
All of the Hooters in MN save for one went under. I know the guys that owned all the ones we lost were some shady characters..... I also know they owned resteraunts in other states. Coincidence?
The one closest to me closed ages ago. They never had much business, though. On any given Friday night, the open-late tire shop next door had more business than the Hooters.
oldsaw
SuperDork
2/16/11 1:07 p.m.
I like hooters, but the restaurants never did much for me. They were acceptable only when in the company of friends and plenty of beer. The food wasn't tasty and the waitrons smelled like the food; their wings never impressed me. Haven't been in one for many years.
Call me weird, but I prefer my wings relatively dry, well-cooked, spicy-hot and bit crispy. Hooter's greasy, slippery mess called wings never made the grade. I'd rather take a batch of Domino's wings and pop em in a broiler before tackling the crap from Hooters.
I never cared for hooters either. The food is nasty and the girls never stick around long enough
My sister-in-law works at a local Hooters. So we go as a family on a regular basis to "visit". I like their food, get great discounts, and because we are family all the girls hang out at our table. I've been forced to go to a couple of bikini contests too (for moral support).
The sacrifices I make for family...
oldsaw wrote:
Call me weird, but I prefer my wings relatively dry, well-cooked, spicy-hot and bit crispy. Hooter's greasy, slippery mess called wings never made the grade. I'd rather take a batch of Domino's wings and pop em in a broiler before tackling the crap from Hooters.
You ain't weird, you're perfectly correct. I don't mind a BIT of the good stuff on my wings, but if they are drowning in sauce, WTF?!