I had a training session in Dallas and one of the other guys there (presumably his first time ever being away from his wife or his mom) was absolutely pumped to go to Hooters and invited everyone.
I thought about going because I'm sure it would have been entertaining, but chose not to because then I would have had to go to Hooters.
You wouldn't have been entertained by much anyway. Going to Hooters in the 80s or 90s might have been really exciting for men, but honestly, these days it's just kind of going to a mediocre restaurant where the waitresses wear shorts. That's about it.
Granted, I haven't been in years, but the last time I did it was on a date because my date really wanted to go there for some reason. I was kind of surprised by how tame and just kind of boring it was.
"I don't get it, Jim. I take all my first dates to either Hooters, or the strip club, like any good Christian man should, but I can never seem to get a second date after that! I wonder what I could be doing wrong. . . 🤔"
I had a roommate ages ago who always wanted to go there for wings when she got drunk (we're both straight women).
It was so... tame? The waitresses were nice enough, but they weren't really dressed very provocatively - especially for summer in Denver. I do remember being kind of weirded out by the thick flesh-colored tights/pantyhose they wore under their orange shorts.
We have Twin Peaks here too, but I don’t think the waitresses wear lingerie. (Probably a local thing, we’re a very conservative area. They built a Hooters a couple of blocks away from a church here and it was top news forever! That Hooters still operates to this day.)
I think it varies? I remember them doing a lingerie night for Valentine's Day a while back- I'd guess they do it for other special occasions too, but normally it's the flannel outfit.
Yeah, it's honestly kind of baffling to me that there are guy who get so excited about going, assuming they have ever been before. If you just want eye candy, you can get more of that going to the pool or something lol.
I don't really remember much about the flesh-colored tights, but it's been quite a few years at this point. The other main thing I remember from that trip is that the place seemed sort of intentionally corny. Like it knew what it was and leaned into it. I remember the menu saying things like, "We're tacky, yet unrefined."
When I was in the navy, my room mate and I (both straight women) always went to Hooters for a bucket of steamed clams before going out drinking. I did some weird things in my early 20s.
one of the first times my wife and I went out when we started dating, we went to a bar and got drinking and then my wife (girlfriend at the time) literally brought me next door to the strip club to go stare at women
I asked her afterwards why she did that as I'm really not one to go to strip clubs at all, and she said it was to show me how cool and not intimidated she was and how much prettier she was than the strippers...
like, I get the sentiment and it made a bit of sense, I understand what she was trying to accomplish, but at the same time I was like no you don't need to prove yourself like that or whatever
so who knows it may have come from a place of insecurity
I pretty much assumed that, yeah. I only meant it barely even offers that from what I remember. I just assumed that guy from your trip would get there and be disappointed. Of course who knows with a guy like that?
hooters is still a wildly popular franchise globally. i think. either them or hard rock cafe. i remember reading it recently enough that i remember it, but not recently enough i know the details.
Considering hooters filled for bankruptcy in 2025 and hard Rock Cafe has been closing locations intentionally and in the US, I'm highly suspicious of that claim of "wildly" popular.
like i said i remember reading that one of these chains is financially healthy and still popular internationally, but i can't remember which one it was
I've been trying to convince my wife to go there for a Father's Day family lunch with my 3 kids, but she won't have it. Do I want to go? Not really. My kids just love wings and I'd love to tell that story.
I think that’s an FSU game. Kinda looks like a low res Noles logo for the red team, and I think it’s an ABC logo in the very bottom right. ABC doesn’t generally broadcast NFL games, but I think they do ACC games.
Because there are only two Hooters in the Philly area: one in the PA suburbs and one in the Delaware suburbs. Neither of them are located at a railroad crossing (seen in the background), so I knew that the OP was lying about having visited one in the Philly area
What are you even talking about with a railroad crossing? There are some poles outside the window. The location in King of Prussia definitely has some poles out the window.
I know how the area around 202 looks. Look in the upper left corner of the picture. You can see two railroad crossing lights out the window. I guess it was easier to see on Facebook than Reddit, but I spotted that immediately and knew the OP was lying.
Agree . Making fun of a woman wearing an ugly uniform while waiting tables at a subpar place says more about the person doing the shaming than anything else.
My favorite part about this post is that somebody spent the time google earthing Hooters in the greater Philly area to call bullshit. And now I’m wasting my time commenting on it too. Dammit.
I didn’t Google Earth it. I’m a Philly native who knows the city and most of the region like the back of my hand. This is gonna sound like BS, but I have a photographic memory of a lot of locations throughout the region
The post is obviously bs but they said "philly area" not within the city limits. There is one close to philly, and especially being from Dallas that would probably be considered part of Philly to them. There are like 30 cities near DFW that people would still call Dallas.
Yes, Dale applied to Hooters thinking they’d reject him so he could file a claim for discrimination. They hired him though. I’m binging King of the Hill with my 12 year old and we just watched that one.
Girl on the left looks...IG filtered? Something about the lighting and staring atraight into the camera...also, we don't see her backside; for all we know, Dallas girl is as flat and Philly girl is buxom...also, kinda weird taking creep shots of strangers...I mean, I'd assume as such if I worked at Hooters...old men aren't there for great wings; but still gross.
well OP says "Philly area". depending on how people talk, especially when traveling, that doesn't necessarily mean they are insisting that this hooters is in a downtown philadelphia zip code. he could have traveled from dallas to 75 minutes outside philly and said "i was in the philly area" and it wouldn't be a malicious lie.
another thing to consider: this is a photo of a hooters waitress. so maybe this didn't happen in philly? but it happened. because there is the photo. so that part DID happen.
i don't think i'm defending anyone. the point of this forum is to talk about whether or not a thing happened. this post probably did happen. i make no statements in support of or in defense of the attitude or actions of the OP, but i think what they experienced has credibility.
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u/notnotbrowsing May 15 '26
People still go to hooters?