Hooters, Inc. is the trade name of two privately held American chain restaurants: Hooters of America, Incorporated , based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated , which based in Clearwater, Florida. The name Hooters is a double meaning that refers to both the owl logo, a bird known for calling "exclaimed", and American slang term for female breasts popularized by comedian Steve Martin on the hit comedy series Saturday Night Live
The wait staff at Hooters restaurants are especially attractive young ladies, usually referred to simply as "Hooter Girls", which reveal clothing and sex appeal played and are a major component of the company's image. The company employs men and women as cooks, host (in some franchises), busboys, and managers. The menu includes hamburgers and other sandwiches, steaks, seafood dishes, appetizers, and specialty restaurants, chicken wings. Almost all Hooters restaurants hold an alcoholic license to sell beer and wine, and where local permits allow, the liquor bars are full. Hooters T-shirts, sweatshirts, and various souvenirs and antiques are also on sale.
In January 2011, Chanticleer Holdings LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina, and others completed the purchase of Hooters of America Inc. from the Brooks family.
In 2015, Hooters announced that it plans to open more than 30 restaurants in Southeast Asia over the next six years.
In 2016 there are more than 430 Hooters locations and franchises around the world and Hooters of America LLC. has 160 units. There are Hooters locations in 44 US states, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and in 28 other countries.
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Hooters, Inc. was founded in Clearwater, Florida, on April 1, 1983, by six Clearwater businessmen: Lynn D. Stewart, Gil DiGiannantonio, Ed Droste, Billy Ranieri, Ken Wimmer, and Dennis Johnson. That date is an April Fool's joke because six original owners believe their prospects will fail. Their first Hooters restaurant was built on a poorly purchased nightclub site. So many businesses were folded in that particular location that the founders of Hooters built a small "cemetery" at the door for every door that came and went before them. The first restaurant opened on 4 October 1983 in Clearwater. This original location is adorned with memorabilia from Waverly, Iowa, the hometown to some of the original Hooters 6.
In 1984 Hugh Connerty bought the rights to Hooters from Original Hooters 6. Robert H. Brooks and a group of Atlantic investors (operator Hooters of America, Inc.) bought Hugh Connerty. In 2002, Brooks bought majority control and became chairman. The Clearwater-based company maintains control of restaurants in the Tampa Bay Area, the Chicago metropolitan area, and one in Manhattan, New York, while all other locations are under the protection of Hooters of America, which sells franchise rights throughout the United States. Countries and international locations. Under the leadership of Brooks, the collective Hooters brand is expanded to over 425 stores worldwide. Brooks died on July 15, 2006, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, due to a heart attack. Brooks's will provide most of Hooters of America Inc. to his son Coby Brooks and his daughter, Boni Belle Brooks.
The Hooters Casino Hotel opened February 2, 2006, just outside the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The hotel has 696 rooms with a 35,000 square foot casino (3,300m 2 ). The hotel is owned and operated by 155 East Tropicana, LLC. It is bordered by Tropicana, across the street from MGM Grand Las Vegas. In 2014, this is the only Hooters facility that offers lodging since the Hooters Inn motel located along Interstate 4 in Lakeland, Florida was destroyed in 2007.
As part of their 25th anniversary, Hooters Magazine released the best Hooters Girls list of all time. Among the most notable are Lynne Austin (original Hooters Girl), the late Kelly Jo Dowd (mother of Dakoda Dowod golfer), Bonnie-Jill Laflin, Leeann Tweeden, and Holly Madison.
After Brooks's death, 240 shoppers showed interest in Hooters of America Inc., and 17 bids were filed, with the number being reduced to eight, and then three, before the Wellspring Capital Management election. Chanticleer Holdings LLC, which has the right to block sales after a $ 5 million loan made in 2006, did so on December 1, 2010, a letter to the court. As a result, Chanticleer and other investors bought the company.
In July 2013, Hooters of America has 160 restaurants and operates or franchises above 430.
The company's first overseas location is in Singapore, and there are Hooters restaurants in Aruba, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Panama, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Russia and one in the United Kingdom, following the closing of the remaining British franchises. The three largest Hooters restaurants are in Singapore, Tokyo, and SÃ <â € "Paulo.
Rework restaurant
In 2013, the company announced plans to remodel every restaurant in the chain. The first rebuilt prototype restaurant is a location in Houston, Texas located on Freeway Southwest at Kirby Drive near Downtown Houston. The new design (performed by ASD | skydesign) will feature more open windows and dining areas and an enhanced audio visual system to be more appealing to sports fans. The redesigned first Hooters is fully open in New Orleans in July 2013. The company also announced changes to its menu, such as the addition of salad entrà ©.
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Hooters Girls
The appearance of the waiters is the main selling feature of the restaurant. A Hooters Girl is a waitress employed by the Hooters restaurant chain. The girls are recognizable in their white tank top uniforms with the logo "Hootie the Owl" and the name of the location on the front is paired with orange short nylon short shorts. The rest of the Hooters Girls uniform consists of brown bag of restaurant tickets (or black ones with black uniforms), brown pantyhose, loose white socks, and clean white shoes. Men working at Hooters wear Hooters, T-shirts with trousers, Bermuda shorts, or clothes that are more suitable for use in the kitchen.
Legal issues
Legal history
In 1997, three people from the Chicago area sued Hooters after being denied work at the Orland Park, Illinois restaurant. Each of them was given $ 19,100. Four people who filed a similar lawsuit in Maryland received $ 10,350 each. This settlement allows Hooters to continue to attract customers with Hooters Girls female staff. The chain agrees to create other support work, such as the bartender and host, which must be filled regardless of gender.
In 2001, a judge ruled that Hooters of Augusta Inc. by deliberately violating the Phone Consumer Protection Act by sending unsolicited ad fax. The class action lawsuit, brought in June 1995 by Sam Nicholson, included 1,320 others who said they received an advertising fax from Hooters. Hooters of America Inc. which is headquartered in Atlanta, the local restaurant holding company, paid $ 11 million. The jury ruled that six faxes were sent to each plaintiff. With a $ 500 fine for each, which amounts to $ 3,000 per plaintiff.
Also in 2001, Jodee Berry, a waiter at Hooters in Panama City Beach, Florida won a beer sales contest, which the promised prize was a new Toyota car. However, the manager gave him a "Yoda toy" instead, claiming the contest was an April Fool's joke. Berry filed a lawsuit against Gulf Coast Wings, a local franchisee, and then reached a settlement.
In 2004, it was found that job applicants to a Hooters in West Covina, California were quietly filmed while undressing, pushing a civil suit filed against a national restaurant chain in Los Angeles Superior Court. The company handles the incident with additional employee training.
In 2009, Nikolai Grushevski, a man from Corpus Christi, Texas, filed a lawsuit because Hooters will not hire him as a servant. Grushevski and Hooters reached a secret settlement on 13 April. In September 2009, the US Cooperation Opportunities Commission filed a lawsuit against a chartered airline North Carolina (formerly Hooters Air, owned by Hooters of America) on behalf of Chau Nguyen, Asian aircraft officers fired three years earlier after complaining only white workers were promoted.
In May 2010, a lawsuit was filed against Hooters in Michigan after an employee was given a performance review of the work and was told that his shirt and short size could use some improvement by two women holding positions at headquarters in Atlanta. Michigan is the only country that covers height and weight as the limit for non-discrimination in hiring. Plaintiffs allege that women make a free gym membership offer and if she does not improve within 30 days, her work will be stopped. The company denied that they threatened to sack the plaintiffs, and the lawsuit was settled out of court.
In December 2010, as part of the settlement of Robert H. Brooks, a judge in Horry County, South Carolina approved the sale of Hooters of America Inc. to Wellspring Capital Management. The decision did not preclude Chanticleer Investors LLC based in Charlotte, North Carolina from exercising the "first right of refusal" given to Chanticleer in a loan agreement with Hooters.
In 2011, a number of former Hooters executives went to start the Twin Peaks franchise group. Hooters filed a lawsuit and charged that former Hooters executives stole trade secrets and management documents as part of their move to a new restaurant chain. In 2012, former employee Jheri Stratton filed suit after catching tuberculosis air disease from one of his managers.
In 2012 Kisuk Cha, an American Korean immigrant who placed a takeout order at Hooters in Queens, New York, sued the chain restaurant for racial discrimination after seeing a racial slurp printed on the cashier's receipt by a hostess who later confessed and then resigned. On April 2, 2015 (as a result of discrimination of racial discrimination Farryn Johnson) the case has not been resolved.
On April 2, 2015, former employee Farryn Johnson was awarded $ 250,000 after an arbitrator discovered that racial discrimination contributed to his termination. Johnson was dismissed in August 2013 after his store manager (from Hooters in Baltimore, Maryland) told him that he could not have the blonde highlights in his hair. Johnson filed a civil rights complaint with the Maryland State Civil Rights Division in which his lawyer declared the adoption of a dress code for African Americans and others (eg non-Hispanic, Hispanic/Latin American/Asian/Pacific American American) where a set policies relating to a particular group of people are regarded as racial discrimination. A statement by Hooters of America by Ericka Whitaker (senior manager of the Hooters of America brand) states that she has no problem having a blonde highlights as a Hooters Girl before becoming a brand manager and the company will continue to diversify its employees, from restaurants to the annual Hooters International Hockey Contest.
Legal status
Under labor discrimination laws in the United States, employers are generally allowed to consider characteristics that can be discriminatory if they are job qualifications (BFOQ). For example, a man's clothing manufacturer can legitimately advertise for a male model. Hooters believes the BFOQ defense, which applies when "the essence of business operations will be undermined if businesses abolish discriminatory policies".
Employee handbook requirements
An older version of the Hooters Employee Handbook (before October 2006), published in The Smoking Gun reads:
Customers can go to many places for wings and beers, but it is our Hooters Girls who make our concept unique. Hooters offers its customers an "All American Cheerleader, Surfer, Girl Next Door.
Female employees are required to sign that they "acknowledge and affirm" the following:
- My job assignment requires that I wear a designated Hooters Girl uniform.
- My job assignment requires that I interact with and entertain customers.
- The Hooters concept is based on female sex appeal and the work environment is a place where conversation is joking and entertaining is common.
Public perception
Charity
Hooters has actively supported the charity through the Hooters Community Endowment Fund , also known as HOO.C.E.F. , a game in UNICEF. It has given money and/or volunteers to charities like Habitat for Humanity, Foundation V for Cancer Research, Home Operations, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Special Olympics, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Stop Hunger Now. In addition, after the 2007 death of Kelly Jo Dowd, a former Hooters girl, Hooters calendar cover girl and then general manager of the restaurant, Hooters started a campaign to support breast cancer research, with awareness of the issue spread through Kelly Jo Dowd Dana. In 2010, the chain raised more than $ 2 million for the cause.
In 2009, Hooters partnered with Operation Homefront to establish The Valentine Fund in honor of SOCS fallen army Thomas J. Valentine. The fund supports the families of US Special Forces troops and other military families. Thomas J. Valentine, head of the Navy SEAL troop, was killed in training on February 13, 2008. He left his wife, Christina, and two small children. Hooters set up a fund in the name of Valentine through Operation Homefront.
Athletics and promotion
Hooters is involved in the world of sports. Previous sponsors include Miami Hooters, an already defunct Arena Football League team. Hooters previously sponsored USAR Hooters Pro Cup, a series of racing cars, and NGA Pro Golf Tour, a small league golf tour.
In 1992, Hooters sponsored NASCAR rider Alan Kulwicki as he won the Winston Cup Championship, beating Bill Elliott by ten points, the closest margin in NASCAR before the Chase era. On April 1, 1993 Kulwicki, along with several others including Hooters Chairman Bob Brooks, Mark's son was killed in a plane crash near Bristol, Tennessee. They flew back to the track for Sunday's race after making a sponsor appearance at Hooters in Knoxville, Tennessee. Hooters remained in sports, sponsoring drivers such as Loy Allen Jr., Rick Mast and Brett Bodine before ending their involvement in 2003. The restaurant returned to NASCAR in 2007 to sponsor the Craftsman Truck Series team led by Jason White, Derrike Cope and Brad Keselowski. Six years later, Hooters sponsors Nelson Piquet Jr.'s National Sergeant Driver. For the 2015 Southern 500 Bojangles at Darlington Raceway, Hooters made a comeback in the Cup Series with a one-off paint scheme for Greg Biffle. Hooters currently sponsors Chase No. 9 Elliott.
Hooters has sponsored the "Hooters Worldwide Championship Dining Championship" hosted by the European League since 2012. Hooters also licensed its name to PlayStation's Hooters Road travel gaming, as well as the Hooters Calendar mobile wallpaper app. Oasys Mobile will also release several other games for mobile consumption based on the Hooters Calendar license in 2008. It is also one of the few real-world brands that appear in the 2011 homefront video games.
Since 1986, the restaurant has issued a calendar for their girls, with signings made in some of their restaurants. Since 1996, Hooters has held Miss Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant, a competition from Hooters Girls from around the world; in 2010, the event took place in Hollywood, Florida. An African-American woman won the Miss Hooters contest for the first time in 2010: LeAngela Davis of Columbus, Ohio.
See also
- Hooters Air (stop operation April 2006)
- Hooters Casino Hotel
- Hooters Road Trip - PlayStation racing game based on franchise
- Miami Hooters (Football Football Team is dead)
- NGA Pro Golf Tour - golf tour previously known as NGA Hooters Tour
- USAR Hooters Pro Cup - racing series
- Breastaurant
- The beauty of bean nuts
- CafÃÆ' Â © con piernas
- Bikini barista
References
External links
- Official website
- About Hooters - Atlanta-based chain information page
- Original Hooters - Clearwater-based founder sub-chains
- Transfer the "Hooters" brand from Clearwater to Atlanta, March 2001 article from the Atlanta Business Chronicle
- Harassment Harassment Lawsuit, from The Smoking Gun
- Fortune Magazine Features on Hooters
- Hooters All Set To Open In Phuket Thailand
- Hooters Pantyhose
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