Hooters, the Atlanta-based sports bar chain, has recently shut down about 40 underperforming restaurants across the United States, joining a growing list of eateries shutting down due to inflation and changing consumer habits, according to reports.
According to Nation’s Restaurant News, on Sunday, there were rumors circulating that many Hooters locations, including those in Lakeland, Florida; Bryan, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky, were closing without warning. Hooters told the publication in a statement on Monday that they made the decision to close select underperforming stores to match current market conditions. In those rare instances, making sure their staff is okay is their priority.
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Despite the steep drop in the number of stores, according to NRN, Hooters has faith in the restaurant’s future, which features scantily clad women who serve chicken wings, beer, and more. The restaurant states that there are new restaurants opening worldwide and that Hooters has launched frozen products as well as expanding into new markets with both company and franchise locations. The brand remains relevant and promises to continue serving patrons in its restaurants in the U.S. and all around the globe.
"With new Hooters restaurants opening domestically and internationally, new Hooters frozen products launching at grocery stores, and the Hooters footprint expanding into new markets with both company and franchise locations, this brand of 41 years remains highly resilient and relevant... We look forward to continuing to serve our guests at home, on the go and at our restaurants here in the U.S. and around the globe." - Hooters
Hooters isn't the only dining chains facing tough times due to inflation and changing consumer habits.
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This news follows Red Lobster's announcement last month that the seafood chain would auction off over 50 locations worldwide days before filing for bankruptcy. TGI Fridays also closed down multiple underperforming restaurants across the U.S. in January. The turbulent state of the restaurant industry today is causing establishments to take action for their survival.
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Maybe if they went topless while serving, business would improve. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Lap dances too!
But…but…how will all those young women go to college? Clearly, joey is against education!
No need for a restaurant serving soft porn and using women willing to degrade themselves when hard porn and straight up hookers are available for free on vile, disgusting American streets. Go Hooters…to bankruptcy. You earned it.
I never much liked Hooters. I can speak on Red Lobster and TGI Friday’s though. The quality of the food served at both has been declining for years. TGIF’s house sirloin used to be one of my favorite “affordable” steaks, but the quality of the beef they used has gone down to the point where I can’t stand to eat it any more. Grisly, and tough. Virtually inedible. Only one example.
So the quality of the food has been going down for a long time, but since COVID, they apparently can’t get any good help any more because the quality of the service has declined rapidly in the past couple of years.
This is not limited to just those two chains, but pretty much all of them. Rude servers, slow service, poor quality food, poor cleanliness, etc etc etc. We just don’t even bother any more. The experience isn’t nearly worth the price. It’s not that hard to wrap a potato in foil and pop it in the oven, throw a couple of supermarket steaks on the grill and steam some green beans. Better food, MUCH less expensive and we don’t have to put up with rude, slow service.
Expect to see much more of this as the economy continues it’s downward spiral.
But they still think they deserve tips….uh-huh, right…..
Part of that is the entitlement of it being part of their wages and not viewed as a gift for exceptional service.
Apparently the market is flat.
It’s not clear to me that today’s males WANT to see or interact with ‘scantily clad women’. Especially not white males. They can’t even say what a woman is. This is the era of the beta male. May God have mercy on us all.
Even the boobs are getting smaller
bidenomincs hit hooters awhile ago…check out the reduced bra sizes…
We used to have a hooters and when I’d go there with my buddies we’d get great service, if I was there with my wife or family we’d get ignored. Since I was out with my wife more than my buddies we just stopped going. I’m not sure that’s a great way to run a restaurant.