End of an Era. How will America recover?

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The concept itself is disguising
I read an interesting piece that said that they got enough "dad takes the son there to try to shake off that rainbow aura" traffic that a lot of the waitresses recognised the pattern and learned to be supportive. Unexpectedly wholesome.
Still less disappointing than visiting Dick's Sporting Goods.
- Dick's Sporting Goods probably has better food
- I might find I don’t want to go there…but can you elaborate on what “rainbow aura” means, please?
  
  Dads taking their gay sons to Hooters to try to make them straight
a real threat to alpha male culture. sad to see it happen like this. now the wokes will do a cultural appropriation and make femboy hooters.
- femboy hooters
  implying we wont be able to just buy the trademark for pennies on the dollar and make this dream into regular hooters
- You jest, but I would pay to see dems appropriate chud culture and make it look lame (or at least lame to chuds).
  GENTRIFY 4CHAN, DAMMIT!
apparently hooters has a kids menu. I
after learning this fact, trying to figure out any scenario in which a child enters the breasturant. i guess i don't know enough about straight male US culture, but i thought hooterinos was for divorced dads and for like bowling teams of middle aged dudes and such... apparently you can take your kid there so they can eat nuggets and ketchup while dad has an erection looking at university students' gahonkas
- My parents used to take me to Hooters all the time. I remember hula hooping with the waitresses. What a strange fucking thing.
- The whole redpill culture is literally “this is what women like, do these things and be this much of an asshole and women will think ur sexy!”
  For any youngish men who are lurking and considering that manosphere advice? Take this advice free of charge: consider twinkmaxxing.
  
  Try also: be-a-decent&respectful-humanmaxxing
- Once you get past the uniforms, it is just a regular place. I remember going there with my parents for no other reason than they were hungry and it was the only place open in the area at the time. I was uncomfortable, because of its reputation and my puritanical hangups as a kid (despite being raised Catholic). But like, genuinely with all the casinos and bars my mom frequented, it really was just about grabbing food and a beer.
  And if you have issues about people objectifying waitstaff, I have some bad news about the service industry as a whole. The horror stories seem about equal in their frequency.
  
  Yeah Hooters gets away with so much of what they do (did?) thanks to the fact that women in almost any service industry role are treated the same if not worse, but with the thin veneer of modesty.
- I get that Hooters is framing things in a male-gazey way but if it's OK to take a child to the beach it's probably mostly OK to take them to Hooters. At least in terms of attire. Unless Hooters has some weird shit the hosts gotta' do that I'm unaware of.
  
  maybe i don't really "get" hööters because i've never been and don't know anyone who's been and lived most of my life in hooter-free countries, but i thought the point of it was it's a sports bar-type place where dudes can get horny and eat junk food and drink beers. it's not like a family restaurant, right?
  i don't have a problem with kids seeing bodies or skimpy clothing, but more with kids being in horny spaces
  
  And before some mod-adjacent sancho tries to cancel my ass: I oppose Hooters existing and I oppose femboy Hooters existing, which is a more socially progressive stance than half of the treatlers on the site.
Despite being a joke to younger people, somehow Hooters was doing fine financially.
The bankruptcy and these closures are just a private equity firm doing what they do best. Do a Leveraged Buyout, rip the copper out of the walls, then file for bankruptcy on the debt you took on to do the leveraged buyout.
The same company is also doing this with PF Chang's, TGI Friday's, and Claire's.
- Oh no, where will 6 year olds go to get their ears pierced 😢
  
  Didn't know PF Changs started doing that
  
  I'm truly torn between
  and
  
  Private equity is just hollowing out everything and I don't know how to feel about it anymore.
In America, there are no big booba chicken wing places because private equity destroys all culture
- Imagining a bit where there's a booba enthusiast having a discussion with an anime tiddy gooner, and the booba guy is hailing Hooters as the last bastion of real awooga that is under threat from AI sludge where every character has the same face but different hairs with same size tiddies.
They're just making way for femboy furry hooters
- Sell vegan hot wings and I'd be there
  
  i've heard the nuggets are pretty much indistinguishable, those brands should open restaurants and not be loud about being vegan.
  
  I’ll come for moral support. And vegan hot wings.
- Females destroyed
Rebrand one to Tooters and sell beans.
- The fart fetishist market has untapped potential
  
  "The health inspector is here? What a fucking nightmare!!!"
- HE'LL YEAH
A male-hetero-niched shitty sit-down chain restaurant, with shitty food at shitty prices closes.
Good.
Too many dirty owls in there, was bad for business
Time to open my line of chain restaurants with attractive servers wearing skimpy clothes
I call it Hogs
should have hired more guys
Hooters has fallen
- Billions must die
Bbw/bhm dennys
Good.
Don't worry Canadians, Hooters Canada is owned by a different entity and remains solvent.
- They have Universal Hooters while we have to live with privately owned for-profit Hooters
olympus has fallen
i went to one once a long time ago because my partner wanted to. it was just weird, the food was mid, and the, uh, hooters were not as advertised. service was fine, would've had a better time at chilis or tgif or whatever.

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