Hooters in Liverpool

[Toffe3m4n]

So I've just mentioned it in the Food thread, but I actually think it deserves it's own..

Controversial ‘Hooters’ restaurant granted licence to open in Liverpool city centre - Hospitality & Catering News

By Denis Sheehan, Publisher, H&C News: Controversial ‘Hooters’ restaurant granted licence to open in Liverpool city centre. The Liverpool Echo is reporting that Liverpool’s licensing authority have granted approval for the controversial ‘Hooters’ restaurant brand to open a second branch of the...

www.hospitalityandcateringnews.com

For those who don't know, the US franchise Hooters bar & restaurants is opening a new location in town, specifically on Water Street where the old News Bar used to be. Naturally, as we're living in 2022, it's caused a bit of a stink from some camps..

In welcoming Hooters to Liverpool, the council has stooped as low as the tops its female staff are forced to wear

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Now I've never been to a Hooters myself as I've not been back to America since I was 17, but it's fairly obvious based on the media that we're all familiar with what it's all about - it's a basically a sports bar where women in short crop tops and short shorts serve you. I've been reliably informed by my well-travelled girlfriend (who's a feminist btw) that it's a cool gaff with some good food, so we're looking forward to it opening. Apparently though it had to go through a bit of a push-pull approval process to get the green light from the council so now it's starting to get quite a bit of attention.

Discuss.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I had only ever heard of Hooters from the Office. Thought it was fictional

 

[Charro]

Me and my mate went to one in Lithuania.

Actually went out of our way to go like a pair of bad dweebs. It was rubbish.

 

[Grogu the blue]

Guaranteed it will be fat ugly women doing all the “it’s so degrading to our sex” just like they got rid of the F1 Pit Girls.. why shouldn’t beautiful women earn money on their looks, not as if they’re forced into it

 

[navidson]

A friend and I went to the Niagara Falls branch

Felt a right pair of tits in there

 

[Papa Shango]

I find the whole thing to be an utterly weird concept.

 

[Grogu the blue]

Used to frequent the Hooters in Connecticut all the time!

 

[grandjoeblue]

Couldn't care less but that Coyote Ugly bar on Bold Street is basically the same thing isn't it?

 

[coollino]

weird

 

[Daz1878]

My much younger self visited a few of these while on holiday in Canada & the US (and once in Mexico, where I remember the food wasn't nearly as good as that in the north American branches). I never found them to be especially rowdy places, to be honest... although I imagine it could get a bit lively in a Liverpool city centre branch on Fri/Sat night.

 

[Ghost Rider]

It's not the type of place I'd visit but I don't know why people would cause a fuss over it either?

If you want to work there you have to wear what you are told to wear. Don't like it, don't work there. Don't want to drink there, go somewhere else. Freedom of choice, I'd like to think any female working there is fully aware of what they are signing up for.

personally , not really an English thing so can't see it being any more successful than other places.

 

[verreauxi]

Haha, didn't realize one of USA's most dumbass chain restaurants was actually international.

Just wait until "Tilted Kilt" shows up! Even worse. One of these opened in my town (and since closed). A few of my students worked there (they told me this, I never went there).

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Hooters is still going over here? I recall a few in the late 90s / early 00s buy thought they died a death.

 

[Bluerover]

Hooters is still going over here? I recall a few in the late 90s / early 00s buy thought they died a death.

Each to their own. I don't think it is something I would welcome personally.

 

[wainy]

Are people really moaning about this? Obviously all fat bitches with a complex.