i thought there were like two or three degrees of irony, not one. meh.
some people have never had the unbearably awkward experience of eating at a hooters as a teenager with an older family member and it shows.
Family friends took me there when I was like 12 or something, very uncomfortable experience
It wasn't at me, it was their righteous crusade against the local tightwad that didn't want it. We have a definite local tightwad issue but stopped clocks etc. Also, Jesus that was like 15 years ago, now I feel old. Cool thing was it was a former pizza hut and has That Roof but they painted it orange.
I'm just permanently surprised that people are still opening these things. one popped up right by my parent's house since I moved out and it's just weird as hell. I guess as pressure is put on the weird misogynist guy to stop being weird and misogynist they're just going to be more and more susceptible to marketing based around sublimating that pressure.
The one in my town closed way back and is now an excellent used book store.
so it all worked out in the end. used book stores are the one good capitalism.
Hopefully it's not closed from Covid. Not much money in it and it's pretty normal for people to touch pretty much everything.
only been once, got uncle magicked into it 0/10 would not recommend
It's just a mindfuck. You're sitting there asking yourself "Where the fuck do I look? Do I try to play off the fact that a half-naked woman is standing right next to me asking if I need an extra napkin for those wings? Do I just stare dead on at her tits and tip generously? Do look at the ceiling and try to stop sweating so profusely? How the fuck am I supposed to act in this place without behaving like a creep?"
I mean, my older relatives decided to visit Vegas when I was 14 and took me with them. I was not ready for what I saw there.
I guess it was before it got cleaned up and sanitized? by the time I went there as a kid it was all pretty tame but just annoying as fuck. idk why we stayed at circus circus but we were right next to a rollercoaster and the room smelled like it was one giant ashtray.
idk if it was before or after but it was too much, in every aspect. i remember the first thing i said was that this is a huge waste of electricity, looking at all the lit-up signs, hotels etc.
We opted to spend most of our time there going out to the hoover dam and that was fun to see the gigantic engineering, it was also funny because they talked about how Las Vegas was a podunk nothing town back when they were contracting how much electricity went where so they barely got any of their electricity from the hoover dam now
There were several restaurant chains based on this concept
They were referred to as "Breasturants"
Twisted Kilt, Twin Peaks, etc.
Wait, that's what Twin Peaks means? Wow, now I feel awkward that I tried to talk to my sister about the show Twin Peaks.
A few years back a coworker of mine was trying to hang out with me and another couple people at my office, and suggested going to twisted kilt. I thought it was just some other "Irish" pub place, and agreed at first, but then looked it up...
When I mentioned I had never been there before, he said something like "oh you'll like it", which is what made me google it. To his surprise, I would not have liked it, and would've felt incredibly uncomfortable the entire time.
It's just the strangest thing. Like, if you're gonna suggest something like this, suggest a strip club? I wouldn't wanna go there either but at least it's somehow less weird.
A strip club is definitely less weird lol, the combo of fast food with the whole concept is already gross and sad, the whole thing where it is basically PG and almost pretending it's somehow different and not horny just makes it feel even more like just ordinary sexual harassment. It's a bit hard to express it.
Every day I become more convinced that Americans only mock brits to cope. We're bad, but uhhh
We also have a restaurant called the British Beer Company
It is exactly what it sounds like
Yeah, there was a Twisted Kilt not far from me that turned into a Southern variant because the owners didn't want to pay franchise fees anymore and now it's just empty because COVID
Life just has a funny way of working out sometimes
The first time I heard about Hooters was in a film and I genuinely thought it was some sort of parody about the practices of certain food establishments.
But, no, they are a real thing.
And now we have some of them over here. :agony-acid:
:amerikkka:
I found out from, like, someone doing a GTA playthrough or something. I thought these restaurants were just something they made up for the game.
Why. God what the fuck is wrong with people, having such restaurants is already weird, but going with the kids is just not ok. The US really are a special place.
Well, the entire point of the restaurant seem to be sexualized waitresses. Not the food nor the location or whatever, but the waitresses. It's the same thing with bare-breasted women at the beach or in paintings, there's a context to thing imo. As you said, it's not a strip club, but that's not really far from it in "spirit". But to each their own opinion, I just don't think Hooters are a place for kids.
What? Hooters is literally a place SPECIFICALLY made to leer at waitresses, that's what they're marketing, wtf does that have to do with going to the beach, what kind of weird fucking comparison is that lol
I remember being one of those kids. Mom had to go too, of course.
She fought with dad about it and eventually we settled.... on an off-brand Hooters that had better tasting wings, smh.
I've only been once. Found the whole experience kind of sad. And I was only low-to-mid level woke then. I oogled the girls and all but I didn't really enjoy it. Just a kind of empty experience.
I went once with coworkers because it was the only place near the office that had March Madness games on. The waitress was pregnant and they still made her wear the outfit. We tipped extra but I still felt bad about the whole thing.
True. But I'm also guessing most hooters patrons don't pay extra for anything.
Femboy hooters isn't ironic, it is a perfectly legitimate place to spend the holidays and they offer Covid safe options. Volcels go there too. It is high class.
Not sure which would be a more awkward experience, going to a Hooters in the US or a maid cafe in Japan
I spent a summer with my absent father when I was like 14 or 15 and him and a group of his buddies would go to hooters every week and would bring me with them. They'd always order pitchers of beer, wings, and oysters and it was incredibly uncomfortable, especially so when my dad would try to get me to eat oysters and talk really loudly in front of the waitresses about how "eating oysters is just like eating pussy" and I was like "haha yeah ok cool" and then he'd get the waitresses to touch me or sit in my lap or try to pay them to fuck me.
Man I got a lot of childhood trauma.
Hooters might be real, but it's definitely surreal bullshit. It's a horny but family friendly restaurant.
I kind of regret turning down a job at Hooters because I heard they don’t have to do side work.
I was also 14 at the time so probably wouldn’t have worked out.
Wait, they'll hire underage waitresses? What the fuck???
ETA: I looked it up and I guess you have to be 18, at least currently, thank god.
yeah...i'm pretty sure a lot of these restaurants don't give a fuck. reality always disappoints. laws are made up.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DEATH TO AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I went there with friends and they asked us if we wanted to work there, but we declined, so it was an informal offer.
They probably would have rejected me once I filled out an application.
It's basic cleaning/maintenance of things like salad bars or dessert stations by the servers when they're not serving people.
My mother works for a school district. She once told me a story about how a little boy once told her Hooters was his favorite restaurant, because his mom always takes him there. Pretty funny.
Nah his mom worked in business and was a very stereotypical hallmark corporate woman.
Wheres my cat boy hooters? :(
All I want is a cute cat boy to serve me food :negative:
i've seen people who have pfps of them and a hooter waitress and it makes me want to die :agony-turbo:
