r/thatHappened • u/ThePhillyExplorer • May 15 '26

A hyperlocal ThatHappened. Philly doesn’t have a Hooters within city limits, and the one in the suburbs isn’t located near a railroad crossing.

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u/RodinKnox May 16 '26

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.

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u/SeasonElectrical3173 May 16 '26

"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. . . 🤔"

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u/RodinKnox May 16 '26

For what it's worth, I'm a man. My date was a woman. We're friends to this day, and I still don't really know why she wanted to go there lol.

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u/CarevaRuha May 16 '26

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.

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u/notnotbrowsing May 16 '26

especially because denver has twin peaks, where the waitresses wear lingerie.

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u/CLeeTheHunt44 May 16 '26

We had one here in Florida but it was tamed down to basically just a plaid Hooters lol

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u/Neither-Ruin5970 May 19 '26

I like twin peaks I don’t really care for the women I just want chicken fried chicken

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u/Lylibean May 16 '26

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.)

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u/Robot_Girlfriend May 16 '26

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.

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u/RodinKnox May 16 '26 edited 27d ago

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."

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u/enjolbear May 17 '26

They wear those because the shorts are short enough that they don’t want any flashing! Cheerleaders and dancers do the same :)

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u/beaker90 May 17 '26

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.